Privacy Policy

Personal Data

You are under no obligation to provide personal information of any kind to use the site. However, if you choose to email me, or make a comment to a post, you must provide your name and email address. In the comment form, only your name will be displayed.

Likewise, I keep your name and email address that you voluntarily give to me when you register for updates and newsletter. In these cases, the website automatically registers your IP address along with the information you give. You can of course require to be deleted from the mail list at any time.

Derivative Data

My server automatically log information like your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site. If you are using a mobile, this information may also include your device name and type, your operating system, your phone number, your country.

The purpose is to protect the site from hackers and spam (you would not believe how many attacks such a simple blog like this experiences) and analytics. The log files are deleted after some time.

All data are kept on a secure server. They are backed up every night, and only I have access.

Third Parties

I do not share any personal information with third parties.

But I do link to third part services, such as Google Maps, You Tube, Spotify and Amazon. Once you interact with any of these services, you are not covered by my privacy policy, but theirs. Please seek the relevant information on their respective homepages.

Cookies

The site uses cookies (small text files) to be set on your device for various purposes. You can change some of your preferences. But note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on the websites and the services it is able to offer.

Essential cookies: These cookies remember your choices when go from one page to the next and so on. Thus, they provide continuity in your visit. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver a coherent experience of the website, you cannot refuse them without seriously impacting how the site functions. You can however block or delete them by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website.

Google Analytics Cookies: These cookies track information about your browser that is used to statistically map the traffic on the site. If you do not want that your visist to the site is tracked you can disable tracking in your browser.

Other External Services: The site also uses different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps and external video providers. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address, it is possible for you to block them. Please be aware that this implies that you cannot see maps or videos on the site. Changes will take effect once you reload the page. If you click on a link to Amazon, you leave this website and will have to choose preferences on their site.