This Privacy Notice explains how this website collects, uses and protects personal data when you browse the site, leave a comment or get in touch with us. It describes what data we process, why we process it, who receives it, how long we keep it, and the rights available to you under the GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679).
1. Data controller
The data controller for this website is:
Pixels
2. Data we process and its purpose
- Site security and delivery (Cloudflare): your IP address, technical connection data and a security cookie (__cf_bm), to deliver and protect the site against attacks and abusive bots. Legal basis: legitimate interest.
- Audience measurement (Yandex Metrica): cookies (_ym_uid, _ym_d), pages consulted, time spent on the site and technical data about your device, to measure how the site is used. Legal basis: legitimate interest.
- Comment avatars (Gravatar): an encrypted version of your email address, to display an avatar next to your name when you comment. Legal basis: legitimate interest.
- Technical logs: your IP address, the date and time of each request, the pages requested and your browser type, kept by our hosting provider for the operation and security of the site. Legal basis: legitimate interest. Kept for up to twelve months.
- Messages and contact form: your email address, your name if given, and the content of your message, to reply to you. Legal basis: legitimate interest, or steps necessary prior to entering into a contract. These messages are transmitted through an email service provider. Kept for as long as needed to handle your request, and for up to three years after our last exchange with you.
- Comments under articles: your name or pseudonym, your email address (never published), your IP address and the content of your comment, to publish and moderate comments. Legal basis: legitimate interest. Kept for as long as the comment remains published.
- Administration security log: IP addresses and login attempts to the administration area, to block abusive access. Legal basis: legitimate interest. Kept for a short period.
3. Recipients of your data
Your data may be shared with the following recipients:
- Cloudflare, Inc. (United States): delivers this website and protects it against attacks and abusive bots.
- Yandex: measures the audience of this website.
- Automattic Inc. (United States): operates Gravatar and displays avatars next to comments.
- Our hosting provider, as a technical service provider, hosts the site and keeps its technical logs.
- Our email service provider, as a technical service provider, transmits messages sent to our contact address and through the contact form.
We do not sell your data to anyone.
4. International data transfers
Cloudflare, Inc. and Automattic Inc. are based in the United States. Transfers of personal data to these companies rely on the safeguards of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Yandex processes data outside the European Union, in a country for which the European Commission has not adopted an adequacy decision.
5. Cookies and trackers
This website only uses the following cookies:
- __cf_bm, placed by Cloudflare, to help secure the site against abusive bots.
- _ym_uid and _ym_d, placed by Yandex Metrica, to measure the audience of the site.
- a cookie placed by the cookie consent banner on this site, to remember your choices.
You can object to the audience measurement carried out by Yandex Metrica at any time, through the cookie banner on this site, your browser settings or a tracker blocker. You can also change your cookie choices at any time from the cookie banner.
6. Your rights
Under the GDPR, you have the right to access your personal data, to have it corrected, to have it erased, to object to its processing, to request that it be restricted, to receive it in a portable format, and to withdraw your consent at any time where processing relies on consent. To exercise any of these rights, write to us at [email protected].
7. Lodging a complaint
If you believe your rights are not respected, you can lodge a complaint with the data protection authority of your country of residence.
8. Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, loss, alteration or disclosure.
9. Updates to this notice
We may update this Privacy Notice to reflect changes in how we process personal data or in the applicable rules. We encourage you to review it from time to time.