Privacy Policy

I believe that everybody has an inalienable right to privacy. This website is built around the same idea. I’ve used some privacy intrusive services on this website but only when absolutely necessary. So, to help you better protect your privacy, I am providing this statement explaining the information practices that are followed in this website and the choices you can make about the way your information may be collected, used and disclosed. To make this statement easy to find, I have linked it on the main menu of the website.

This is a static website and there are no accounts on the website itself. But, for the sake of ease of operation of the website, I have integrated some third party services that may track, collect, store information or set cookies.

Collection and usage of information

Your name and email address are collected when you use the contact form to message me. The information provided by you is collected and stored securely using Google’s services. Please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy for information of Google’s privacy practices.

I use the information provided by you to respond to you directly, when necessary. I will never use the information provided by you for unnecessary solicitation or to spam you.

Third party services

The following are the other third party services that are used with this website for storage, propagation and security of data:

  • YouTube videos may be embedded on some pages of the website. YouTube embeds are rewritten as to not use cookies. Please refer to YouTube’s Privacy Guidelines for details.

  • Tweets from Twitter may be embedded on some pages of the website. These tweets are hosted locally and do not use the embed JavaScript provided by Twitter. As an extra precaution, the tweets have been embedded with the do-not-track parameter set to true, which is a switch to opt out of having information from the website used for personalization by Twitter. Please refer to the Twitter Privacy Policy for further information.

  • This website uses GoatCounter web analytics, an open source and privacy friendly web analytics platform. GoatCounter does not track users with unique identifiers. It uses a non-identifiable hash to identify unique visits to the website, without using cookies.

    This analytics service helps me view useful statistics such as browser information, location, and screen size of the visitors who visit this website, and also helps me keep track of referring sites.

    GoatCounter analytics ignores the Do-Not-Track header by default. But it still provides a way to implement it, which has been done for this website so that the service respects your Do-Not-Track settings.

    You can view the GoatCounter privacy policy and the GDPR consent notices for further information on the service’s policies.

    You can view all the data that is viewable by me using this analytics service by visiting this URL

  • This website is hosted on GitLab Pages. Please refer to the GitLab Privacy Policy for details.

  • To enhance security and speed, this website uses CDN and Managed DNS services from Cloudflare. For this purpose, your browser connects trough Cloudflare’s servers to where the website is hosted, which means that Cloudflare processes all data that is sent from or to this website. The use of Cloudflare is done in the interest of a secure and fast accessibility of the website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. More information on Cloudflare’s GDPR policy can be found here.

    Cloudflare may set some cookies to ensure that a webpage loads correctly and securely, and to provide a consistent and efficient experience. You can read the the Cloudflare Cookie Policy for further details. You can also check this page to better understand Cloudflare Cookies. Please refer to Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy for information regarding Cloudflare’s privacy practices.

Security

The internet is not a 100% secure medium. However I have taken reasonable technical precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of information by putting in place various security procedures. For example, this website uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology for secure transmission of information, which encrypts data to and from the website.

This site may contain links to other sites. I do not control the information collected on sites that can be reached through those links. If you have questions about the data collection procedures of the linked sites, please contact the sites directly.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

I might make some changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. If any changes are made, I’ll be posting the revised Privacy Policy on the same link on this website.

Contact information

Please feel free to contact me using the contact page for queries related to this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy was last amended on March 9, 2022.