How this site treats your data.

The short version

This site sets no cookies and builds no profile of you. There are no ads, no cross-site trackers, and nothing here follows you around the internet. I measure traffic the same way I measure everything else: honestly, and no more than needed.

Analytics

I use Cloudflare Web Analytics to see how many people visit, which pages they read, and how fast the site loads. It is cookieless by design: it stores nothing in your browser, uses no fingerprinting, and does not track you across sites. What I see is aggregate numbers, not individuals.

Traffic to this site passes through Cloudflare, which processes your IP address transiently to route requests and block abuse, as every network provider does. Cloudflare may set a strictly necessary security cookie if it has to challenge suspicious traffic; that is protection, not tracking. The legal basis for all of this is legitimate interest: running a website and knowing whether it works.

What your browser stores

One thing, and only if you dismiss the privacy notice: a single flag in your browser's local storage that remembers the dismissal so the notice does not reappear. It identifies nothing and goes nowhere.

If you email me

The only things this site collects about you are the ones you send me directly, by email or through the contact form. I keep the correspondence for as long as the conversation is relevant and use it for nothing else. No lists, no newsletters, no passing it on.

If you use the contact form

What you type into the form (your name, your email, and your message) is stored on my own server and delivered to my inbox and my phone so I can reply. There is no third-party form processor in the middle. You also get one short automatic confirmation at the address you give, and nothing after that. I use what you send only to answer you, and I will delete it on request at the same address below.

Who is responsible, and your rights

The data controller is Alexandru Cioc, Maastricht, the Netherlands. If you want anything corrected or deleted, or you object to the little processing described here, email [email protected] and a real person answers. You can also complain to the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, though I would rather you tell me first so I can fix it.