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title: “Privacy” date: 2022-08-10:T23:06:10Z type: page featured_image: “/img/hero-banner.png” menu: main: weight: 999

This webpage belongs to Zoë A. Porter, and is run and maintained by her.

However, it is hosted inside the European Union, and therefore subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), that is law in the EU from 25th May 2018.

Therefore a responsible contact for data privacy matters as regulated by the GDPR must be named, and this person must be inside the European Union. According to §5 DDG this is:

Alexander Noack

Address: Hauffstr. 11 28217 Bremen Germany

How to contact:

EU-phone contact: +49 421 38876679

e-mail: webmistress@afanen-writes.net

Page Encryption

To ensure the safety of your data during transmission, this site uses state-of-the-art encryption technology such as SSL or TLS via the secure HTTPS protocol stack.

Access Logs

We do not store any server logs, such as IP addresses, visited sites or any information about your browser or operating system or referers.

Removal of personal data

We follow the principals of data avoidance. Therefore, we do not store or collect any data from the visitors of our website. Data, which is proactively send to us, for example via e-mail, is only stored for as long as it is needed to fullfill the purpose of the communication.

Cookies

This website does not use any cookies, neither first-, nor third-party. Some of our pages will contain external links, that will lead you to another website. Please keep in mind, that these sites are not under our control, and therefore may use cookies and use other tracking techniques. These pages will, however, only be loaded when you explicitly follow them by clicking on them.

Embedded YouTube-Videos

Some of our articles embed links to YouTube videos. Operator for the required plugin is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with an embedded video, you will only be shown a preview window, which is locally hosted, and does not connect to third-party servers. The plugin will only become active, if you click on the “Play”-button in the preview. Only then, a sub page will open, that will connect to the YouTube service.

User Rights

You have the right to request on which of your personal data we store on our site. You can also require correction of wrong data, hiding of publicly visible personal data, or -as long as the data retention is not required by law- deletion of your personal data. In that case please contact us using the above contact information.

Changes

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We will post any privacy policy changes on this page.

Questions

For questions concering your privacy, send an e-mail to the address above or to webmistress@afanen-writes.net.