Book and Journal of Mattanaw

# Privacy Policy

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    PRIVACY POLICY
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    Created: 2016.
    Updated: June 30th, 2022.

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    Some details:
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    - Before the author/webmaster used Google Analytics to know user statistics, but decided to remove this since not particularly useful any longer, but also in part because the author/webmaster did not want another site collecting user information.
    - Few websites would be as basic as this one in relation to user information collection. This website does not do anything to collect any information from any user apart from what a typical webserver might do on its own. If this informaiton worries you in any way, I assure you, as a former software architect that all or most websites, particularly websites of busiesses and large enterprises, collect more information, and given this site has no web form, and no registration, or no method of collection other than access logs, less is possible to receive than with most other sites.

    Thanks for visiting and please enjoy!

Mattanaw I., formerly "Christopher Matthew Cavanaugh"

I am a retired executive, software architect, and consultant, with professional/academic experience in the fields of Moral Philosophy and Ethics, Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy, and more recently, Economics. I am a Pandisciplinarian, and Lifetime Member of the High Intelligence Community.

Articles on this site are eclectic, and draw from content prepared between 1980 and 2024. Topics touch on all of life's categories, and blend them with logical rationality and my own particular system of ethics. The common theme connecting all articles is moral philosophy, even if that is not immediately apparent. Any of my articles that touch on "the good and virtuous life" will be published here. These articles interrelate with my incipient theory of ethics, two decades in preparation. This Book and Journal is the gradual unfolding of that ethic, and my living autobiography, in a collection of individual books that fit into groups of book collections.

This Book and Journal is already one of the largest private websites and writings ever prepared, at nearly 1 million words, greater than 50,000 images and videos, and nearly one terabyte of space utilized. The entire software architecture is of my creation. Issues of the book for sale can be found under featured. These texts are handmade by myself, and are of excellent quality, and constitute the normal issues of my journal that can also be subscribed to. The entire work is a transparent work in progress. Not all is complete, and it will remain in an incomplete state until death.

I welcome and appreciate constructive feedback and conversation with readers. You can reach me at mattanaw@mattanaw.com (site related), cmcavanaugh@g.harvard.edu (academic related), or christopher.matthew.cavanaugh@member.mensa.org (intelligence related), or via the other social media channels listed at the bottom of the site.

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