General

Since privacy matters to me, I will not go on about how "I value your privacy".

This website is currently hosted on a VPS, that I rent from Hetzner. I am the only person accessing it, although their staff will technically be able to do this as well, since they control the physical hardware that this site runs on and I do not use full disk encryption. If you worry about them receiving some of your data, consult their privacy policy here.

I do not collect server logs, thus I do not collect IP addresses or other things a web server usually logs.

Analytics

I do collect some data about my readers, including:

• What page you visit
• How long you visit it
• Where you are from (country, region, city, based on IP (which is not logged))
• What device you are on (OS, screen size, Browser)
• What referred you to my site, if available

I do this for idle curiosity, I do not process any of this further.

These analytics are collected using Umami which I self-host meaning that I am the only person who can access this information (apart from Hetzner technical staff, see above).

How to opt out

If you do not wish to be tracked this way, which is your right, you can take measures to block this. The tracking script is called log_visits.js and is loaded from https://logs.bfloeser.de, which you can disallow (e.g. using an ad blocker). Disabling JavaScript entirely is also possible but please note that some things, e.g. upvoting posts and comments, will not work if you do. A slightly more hacky way to achieve this is executing the following ling of JavaScript in your browser console while visiting my website:

localStorage.setItem('umami.disabled', 1);

This will only live as long as you don't clear browser data for this website.

Comments

Comments are implemented with Pure Comments which I also self-host so there is no third party involved.

If you decide to submit a comment, all of the above considerations still apply. All the information you choose to include in your comment will be saved on my server for the foreseeable future. It will not be processed further in any way.

If you want your comment deleted, send me a message via any of the channels available and I will comply as promptly as I am able.

Feel free to reach out, if you are unhappy about any of the above.