Privacy Policy

• Information you give us. When you subscribe to the newsletter we collect your email address and, optionally, your name.
• Technical and usage data. Like most sites, our hosting and security layers process your IP address, browser/user-agent, and request metadata. We use this transiently for security, abuse prevention, and rate-limiting — not to build a profile of you.
• Aggregate content metrics. We count article views and likes at the article level. These counts are not linked to your identity.
• Cookies and similar technologies. See Section 3. With your consent, our advertising and analytics providers may set cookies or read device identifiers.
• Data stored only on your device.Your theme preference, reading history, and article reactions are kept in your browser’s local storage. This never leaves your device and is not transmitted to us.

• To deliver the newsletter you subscribed to.
• To operate, secure, and troubleshoot the site (including preventing spam and abuse).
• To measure aggregate audience and content performance.
• To display advertising that helps fund the site.

We do not sell your personal data for money.

We use a small number of essential cookies and local-storage entries that are required for the site to work — for example remembering your theme, storing your cookie choice, and (for the site administrator only) maintaining a login session. These do not require consent.

Non-essential cookies — for advertising (Google AdSense) and analytics (Vercel) — are off by default. When you first visit, a banner asks for your choice, and these services are loaded onlyif you select “Accept all.” Until then we apply Google Consent Mode in its denied state, so no advertising or analytics cookies are set and no personalized advertising takes place.

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time using the Cookie settings link in the footer, or by clearing cookies for this site in your browser.

With your consent, we use Google AdSense to display ads. Google, as a third-party vendor, may use cookies and device identifiers to serve and measure ads, and — where you have consented — to personalize them based on your prior visits to this and other sites.

You can review and control how Google uses your data at Google’s “How Google uses information from sites that use its services” and manage ad personalization at Google My Ad Center. You can also opt out of personalized advertising from participating vendors at aboutads.info/choices and youronlinechoices.eu.

With your consent we use Vercel Web Analytics to understand aggregate traffic (such as page views, referrers, and general device type). It is designed to be privacy-friendly and does not build cross-site profiles of individual visitors.

Our newsletter is delivered using Mailchimp (Intuit Inc.) as a processor. Your email address and optional name are stored there to send you the emails you requested. Every newsletter includes an unsubscribe link, and you can opt out at any time — you may also email us to be removed.

We share data only with the service providers that make the site work, each acting under their own privacy terms:

• Vercel — hosting and analytics.
• Google — AdSense advertising.
• Mailchimp — newsletter delivery.

We may also disclose data where required by law. We do not otherwise sell or rent your personal data.

Our providers are based in the United States and may process data outside your country of residence. Where required, such transfers rely on appropriate safeguards (for example the EU Standard Contractual Clauses or an approved data transfer framework) offered by those providers.

We keep newsletter data until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it. Security and server logs are short-lived and retained only as long as needed for operational and abuse-prevention purposes. Aggregate, non-identifying metrics may be kept indefinitely. Provider-set cookies expire per each provider’s own retention policy.

If you are in the EEA or UK, you have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to our processing of your personal data, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time. Where we rely on consent (for advertising, analytics, and the newsletter), withdrawing it does not affect processing carried out beforehand.

To exercise any of these rights, email kiril.u@gmail.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority.

If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information we collect, to request its deletion or correction, and to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information. We do not sell personal information for money. However, using advertising cookies may be considered “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising under California law.

You can opt out by selecting “Reject non-essential” in our cookie banner (or via Cookie settings), and we honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signals as an opt-out where applicable. We do not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

This site is intended for a professional, general audience and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If you believe a child has provided us data, contact us and we will delete it.

We may update this policy as the site or applicable law evolves. Material changes will be reflected in the “Last updated” date above. Continued use of the site after an update means you accept the revised policy.