Privacy Policy
I consider the privacy of my visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information is collected and recorded by odd-one-out.serek.eu and how I use it. I will not share your email address or any other personal information to anyone without your direct consent.
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
In order to comply with GDPR I have choosen to prevent working with and storing personably identifiable data anywhere possible. The regulation states that:
The principles of data protection should therefore not apply to anonymous information, namely information which does not relate to an identified or identifiable natural person or to personal data rendered anonymous in such a manner that the data subject is not or no longer identifiable. This Regulation does not therefore concern the processing of such anonymous information, including for statistical or research purposes 1.
Where my site does fall under the GDPR, I will explicitly mention below.
Statistics
This sites does not use any analytics tools like Google Analytics. However this site uses CloudFlare as a DNS and CDN provider and they do collect some basic anonymized data to present statistical information about number of unique visitors, number of request, bandwidth and potential blocked threats. Read more here.
Comments
This site no longer uses comments.
Affiliate links
This sites uses affiliate links, but only if you have accepted them in the consent pop-up. You can revoke this at any time.
- Amazon, a third party affiliate marketing network, uses cookies to help make sure I get a commission when you buy a product after clicking on a link or ad banner that takes you to the site of one of their merchants. You can read Amazon’s Privacy Policy.
Log files
This site does not keep any log files, however the services that this site use does use logfiles (GitHub, CloudFlare and Algolia). These files merely log visitors to the service – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies to troubleshoot and prevent abuse. The information inside the log files typically include
- Internet Protocol addresses (IP)
- Browser type
- Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- Date/time stamp
- Referring/exit pages
- Number of clicks
GitHub
This site is hosted on GitHub Pages that claims they are GDPR compliant.
CloudFlare
This sites uses CloudFlare for DNS and CDN. This means that when your browser fetches this sites address and ressources, it goes through CloudFlare for performance optimization reasons. CloudFlare does mention that they log in compliance with GDPR.
Algolia
This sites uses Algolia as a search engine to provide search results as you type your query.
Encryption
This sites uses SSL encryption from you (the browser) to CloudFlare (my DNS and CDN proxy) to GitHub pages (where this site is hosted). I also ensure that non encrypted traffic to my site is disabled and instead redirected to https.
Embedded video
This site used embedded videoes from YouTube. Every video is embedded using Privacy Enchanced Mode. Privacy Enhanced Mode allows you to embed YouTube videos without using cookies that track viewing behavior. This means viewing inbox isn’t collected to personalize the viewing experience. Instead, video recommendations are contextual and related to the currently played video. Videos playing in a Privacy Enhanced Mode embedded player won’t influence the viewer’s browsing experience on YouTube.
List of cookies we collect
The table below lists the cookies we collect and what information they store.
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| __cfduid | The __cfduid cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. This cookie is absolutely necessary for supporting Cloudflare’s security features and cannot be turned off. | Link |
| fullcss | Setup a cookie, to check if a visitor has the CSS cached and no longer requires the critical path CSS to enable faster rendering of the page. Critical path CSS is important for the first page load. There on it’s not really necessary as everything should be cached. It also removes any doubts for the flash of unstyled content. | Link |
| geo_country_code | Identifies from the visitors IP which country a user is from. Is used to serve localised affiliate links to Amazon. |
Disclosure Policy
I make money on this website through affiliate programs and if you have consented that I can do this. If you click an affiliate link or ad banner and buy the product, you help support this website because I’ll get a percentage of that sale.
Currently I’m an affiliate for
- Amazon
Amazon
The owner of this website, Poul Serek, is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking odd-one-out.serek.eu to Amazon properties including, but not limited to, amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.fr, amazon.ca, amazon.cn, amazon.it and amazon.es.
What this means for you:
- I became an affiliate to earn revenue towards the costs of running and maintaining this website. Where I have direct control over which ads are served on this website I offer only products that are directly related to the topic of this website and products that a reader/subscriber would have a genuine interest in or need of.
- I do not and will not recommend a product just for the sake of making money.
- I do not let the compensation I receive influence the content, topics, posts, or opinions expressed on this website.
- I respect and value my readers too much to write anything other than my own genuine and objective opinions and advice.
Just like this website, my Disclosure Policy is a work in progress. As the revenue streams evolve, so will this page.
Last updated: May 17, 2018
The principles of data protection should apply to any information concerning an identified or identifiable natural person. Personal data which have undergone pseudonymisation, which could be attributed to a natural person by the use of additional information should be considered to be information on an identifiable natural person. To determine whether a natural person is identifiable, account should be taken of all the means reasonably likely to be used, such as singling out, either by the controller or by another person to identify the natural person directly or indirectly. To ascertain whether means are reasonably likely to be used to identify the natural person, account should be taken of all objective factors, such as the costs of and the amount of time required for identification, taking into consideration the available technology at the time of the processing and technological developments. The principles of data protection should therefore not apply to anonymous information, namely information which does not relate to an identified or identifiable natural person or to personal data rendered anonymous in such a manner that the data subject is not or no longer identifiable. This Regulation does not therefore concern the processing of such anonymous information, including for statistical or research purposes. ↩