Privacy Policy

What data I collect

The only personal data I collect is what you voluntarily provide:

• Comments: your name (or a pseudonym) and the text of the comment. Your name is displayed publicly next to the comment. No email is requested. When you submit, your IP address is used briefly to limit spam (see below) and is not stored.
• Contact form: name, email and your message.

How I use the data

Comment data is used solely to display your comment on the page and to notify me. Each comment is published only after I approve it; until then no one else can see it. Contact form data is used only to reply to you.

To protect against spam, the site's code (a Cloudflare Worker) counts submissions per IP address through Cloudflare: up to 2 comments a minute are accepted. The count is kept by Cloudflare for about a minute, and the IP address is not stored with the comment. The time between opening the page and submitting, and a hidden form field that only bots fill in, are also checked; neither is stored.

Where data is stored

Comments are stored in a Cloudflare D1 database (Cloudflare, Inc.). For new comments, a notification email is sent to me via Resend (Resend, Inc.), up to 4 an hour, containing the name, the text and the page of the comment. Contact messages are transmitted via Basin (usebasin.com). This site is served through Cloudflare, which processes network data (e.g. IP address) as part of its CDN and security service.

Visitor statistics

To see how many people visit the site, I use GoatCounter (goatcounter.com), with servers in Finland and Germany. It records, in aggregate, the page you are reading, the page you came from, your browser, operating system, language, screen width and country, which is derived from your IP address. No cookies are used and your IP address is not stored in the database. Your IP address and User-Agent are kept in memory for up to 8 hours, so that repeat visits are not counted twice. The statistics do not help me identify you.

How long data is retained

Comments are kept until manually deleted. This includes comments I do not approve: they stay in the database, not visible, until I delete them. You may request deletion at any time.

Your rights (GDPR)

You have the right to access, correct and delete your data. For any request, use the contact form.

Cookies

This site does not set cookies of its own and does not use tracking cookies, including for visitor statistics. Cloudflare may set a security cookie (cf_clearance) if it asks you to confirm that you are not a bot. Only the browser's localStorage is used, to store two preferences: the theme (dark/light mode) and the font size in articles. Neither is ever sent to any server.