---
title: "Privacy"
url: "https://www.texaslinuxfest.org/privacy/"
description: "What www.texaslinuxfest.org collects, what it does not, and which third parties see a request when you load a page."
date: 2026-08-21
site: "Texas Linux Fest"
---

# Privacy


This page describes what happens when you load a page on
`www.texaslinuxfest.org`. It covers this site only. Each edition of Texas Linux
Fest runs its own website on its own subdomain, and registration, ticketing and
the call for papers are handled there under that site's terms.

## What this site collects

Nothing directly. This site is a set of static files. It has no accounts, no
login, no comment system, no forms, no shopping cart and no server-side code of
our own. We do not set cookies, we do not run analytics, and we do not operate
any tracking pixel. There is no database here for your information to end up in.

## What the host sees

The site is served by GitHub Pages. Like any web server, GitHub receives the
requests needed to send you a page — your IP address, the URL you asked for,
your user agent and the referring page — and handles them under
[GitHub's Privacy Statement](https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-privacy-statement).
We do not receive those server logs and we cannot query them.

## Third parties your browser contacts

To keep the site small we load some stylesheets, fonts and scripts from public
CDNs rather than hosting copies. Loading a page therefore also sends a request —
including your IP address and user agent — to:

- `fonts.googleapis.com` (Google Fonts)
- `cdn.jsdelivr.net` (Bootstrap, KaTeX)
- `use.fontawesome.com` (Font Awesome)
- `cdnjs.cloudflare.com` (PhotoSwipe)
- `code.jquery.com` (jQuery)

Each of those is governed by its own privacy policy. Nothing we send them
identifies you; they see the request your browser makes on its own.

Pages also link out to other sites — the per-year festival sites, OpenStreetMap,
Wikipedia, news coverage, podcasts and our social media accounts. Following a
link hands you off to that site, which has its own policy.

## Email

If you email `info@texaslinuxfest.org`, your message and address are visible to
the volunteer organizers who read that mailbox. We keep the mail so we can
answer follow-ups and hand context between editions of the festival. We do not
add you to any list, and we do not sell, rent or share the address.

## Changes

If this changes, the change lands in the public repository at
[github.com/TXLF/txlf-landing](https://github.com/TXLF/txlf-landing), where the
full history of this page is readable. Questions about any of it go to
`info@texaslinuxfest.org`.