Privacy, in plain language.
This site keeps its data use small: no advertising, no social-media embeds, and fonts are served from this domain, not from Google. Two tools show me how the site is used. One counts visits and the other records them, so I can see what to improve. You can switch the recording off with one click in section 4. Everything the site processes is described below.
1. Who is responsible
Priyank Maniar, independent software developer, India
Email: [email protected]
2. Contact form
If you use the contact form, I process the data you enter (name, email address, your message) solely to answer you and to handle whatever engagement follows. The message is delivered by email and stored in my mailbox.
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR (steps prior to entering into a contract, taken at your request), and Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR (my legitimate interest in responding to enquiries).
3. Server logs
Like practically every website, the infrastructure serving this site records technical access data: IP address, date and time, requested URL, browser identification. These logs exist for security and operations, are not merged with other data, and rotate on a short cycle.
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR (secure and reliable operation of the site).
4. Analytics
Cloudflare Web Analytics counts visits. A small script from Cloudflare notes page views, where visitors come from, and how fast pages load. It sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser.
Microsoft Clarity records how the pages are used: mouse movement, clicks, scrolling and what is on screen. It starts on your first scroll, tap, key press or mouse move. Anything you type into the contact form is masked in your browser, so Microsoft never sees what you write. I watch the recordings to see where the site confuses people, so I can fix it.
For visitors from the UK, the European Economic Area and Switzerland, Clarity sets no cookies, so every page is a separate recording. Elsewhere it sets cookies, which join the pages of one visit and recognise the browser when it comes back, and Microsoft sets some of its own on clarity.ms and bing.com. Microsoft deletes recordings after 30 days, and recordings I save, along with the click data behind heatmaps, after 9 months.
Don't want to be recorded? Click the button below. The choice is saved in this browser, and Clarity won't load here again.
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR (my legitimate interest in understanding how the site is used and improving it). You can object at any time with the button above.
5. Service providers
- Cloudflare, Inc.: DNS, content delivery, aggregate edge traffic statistics, and email forwarding. Traffic to this site passes through Cloudflare's network.
- DigitalOcean, LLC: hosting of the web server.
- Google LLC: mailbox provider; messages sent to [email protected] are stored there.
- Microsoft Corporation: Clarity session recordings and heatmaps (section 4).
These providers may process data outside the EU/EEA. They do so under their respective standard contractual clauses and data-processing terms.
6. Retention
Contact correspondence is kept for as long as needed to handle your request and any engagement that follows, then deleted. Server logs are retained only briefly by the providers named above. Clarity recordings are deleted after 30 days, or after 9 months for ones I save.
7. Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and objection to processing based on legitimate interest. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data-protection supervisory authority.
For any of these, one email is enough: [email protected].
8. India: Digital Personal Data Protection Act
I work from India, so the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 applies to me as well. What it means in practice: you hand me your details voluntarily when you write to me, and I use them only for the thing you wrote to me about. You can ask me to correct them, erase them, or stop using them, and I will do it.
I am the person who answers data questions here, so the address is the same one: [email protected]. If I do not sort it out to your satisfaction, you can take the matter to the Data Protection Board of India.