Privacy Policy

📌 General Information

I take your privacy seriously. This website collects minimal data and handles it responsibly—according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

📂 What Data Is Collected?

When you visit this website, the following data may be automatically stored:

• IP address (anonymized)

• Date and time of access

• Pages visited

• Browser type and operating system

This data is used only for technical security and to improve the website. It is not used to identify individuals.

📧 Contact

If you contact me via email, your information (e.g. name, email address, message) will be stored so I can respond. Your data will not be shared with others.

🍪 Cookies

This website does not use cookies that store personal data or track users.

🔗 External Links

Blog posts may contain links to external websites. I am not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those sites.

📤 Data Sharing

I do not share your data with third parties—neither for advertising nor for any other purpose.

📁 Hosting

This website is hosted by a European provider. The server is located in the EU and complies with GDPR standards.

Microsoft Clarity

With your consent, this website uses Microsoft Clarity, a web analytics service by Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA. Clarity shows how visitors use the site, for example through heatmaps and recordings of sessions. I use this to find pages that are hard to use and to improve them.

Clarity records interactions such as page views, clicks, scrolling and mouse movement, together with technical data like browser, device type, screen size and an approximate location derived from your IP address. Text you type into form fields is masked and not recorded. Clarity uses cookies (for example clck, clsk, CLID and MUID) to recognise a visit across pages, kept for up to one year.

Clarity is only loaded after you click “Accept” in the cookie banner; before that, nothing is sent to Microsoft. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG). Data can be processed in the USA; Microsoft is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. You can withdraw your consent at any time with “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page.

More information: Microsoft Privacy Statement.

🧑‍⚖️ Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Request information about your stored data

• Ask for correction or deletion of your data

• File a complaint with a data protection authority

📬 Contact for Privacy Questions

If you have any questions about privacy, please contact me at: 📧 smogeq7@yahoo.com