Last updated: July 10, 2026.
This page explains what happens to data when you use louisbouchard.ai. The short version is that the site uses analytics, a contact form, public comments, an optional AI helper, and a few third-party media embeds. Each one handles different information.
Basic website and analytics data
Cloudflare hosts and protects the site, so it can process normal request data such as your IP address, browser, requested page, and security signals.
The site also uses Google Analytics to understand which pages people visit and which links or site actions are useful. Google Analytics can receive device, browser, referral, approximate location, page, and interaction data. It may use cookies or similar browser storage.
Contact form
The contact form asks for your name, email, topic, and message. Cloudflare Turnstile checks for automated abuse, and the site uses hashed visitor and network identifiers for rate limiting. Accepted messages pass through a private Google Apps Script relay and Google Workspace delivers them to contact@louisbouchard.ai.
The site does not intentionally store contact-message contents in its own database. The delivered email remains in the Google Workspace mailbox according to its retention settings. Do not include passwords, API keys, health records, financial details, or other sensitive information.
Public comments
Comments show the name and text you submit publicly on the article. The site also creates a random browser identifier and uses hashed visitor and network identifiers for rate limiting and abuse prevention.
Comment text can be checked by DeepSeek or Gemini for spam, harassment, private information, and unsafe content. Moderation events can be logged in Opik, a service from Comet, so failures and abuse can be reviewed. Approved comments remain with the article unless they are removed.
AI helper
The AI helper receives your message, the current page URL and title, recent messages in the same conversation, and a random browser identifier. Visitor identifiers are hashed before they are used in server logs.
The helper can send this information to DeepSeek as the primary model or Gemini as a fallback. Conversations and technical traces can also be logged in Opik to evaluate answers and investigate failures. Do not send confidential, personal, or regulated information to the helper.
Browser storage
The site uses local browser storage to remember your light or dark theme, a dismissed announcement, random helper, comment, and contact identifiers, and the name you last used for a comment. You can clear this data in your browser settings.
Embedded services and external links
Some pages embed media from services such as YouTube, Spotify, Vimeo, Substack, Embedly, Descript, and Hugging Face. Loading or using an embed lets that provider receive normal request and browser data. External sites follow their own privacy terms.
Retention and your choices
Rate-limit counters stop affecting requests after their minute, ten-minute, hourly, or daily window and are cleared during later activity. Public comments stay with the article until they are removed. Delivered contact emails, analytics, helper, moderation, and hosting data follow the retention settings of the services described above.