Privacy Policy

Use of the analytics tool, Matomo

Purpose of the processing

This website is using Matomo, an Open Source, self-hosted software for collecting anonymous usage statistics for this website.

The data is used to analyse the behaviour of the website visitors to identify potential pitfalls like not found pages, search engine indexing issues and to find out which contents are the most appreciated. Once the data (number of visitors reaching a not found pages, viewing only one page…) is processed, Matomo is generating reports for website owners to take action, for example changing the layout of the pages, publishing some fresh content… etc.

Matomo

Matomo is processing the following data:

• Cookies
• Anonymized IP-address by removing the last 2 bytes (so 198.51.0.0 instead of 198.51.100.54)
• Pseudo-anonymized Location of the user (generated from the anonymized IP-address)
• Date and time
• Title of the page being viewed
• URL of the page being viewed
• URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page (if the page allows it)
• Screen resolution
• Time in local timezone
• Files that were clicked and downloaded
• Link clicks to an outside domain
• Pages generation time
• Country, region, city (low resolution based on IP-address)
• Main Language of the browser
• User Agent of the browser
• Interactions with forms (but not the content) [If you are using Form Analytics]

Indirect data collection

Server Logs

If you are using this site, the visit is logged by the host of this website (SiteGround). This log contains your IP-Address which allows you to be identified indirectly via your internet service provider. The collection of this data is a legal obligation and required for security. You cannot oppose it and the data is at no time used for other purposes.

Legitimate interests

The processing of personal data is based on legitimate interests.

Processing your personal data such as cookies is helping us identify what is working and what is not on our website. For example, it helps us identify if the way we are communicating is engaging or not and how we can organize the structure of the website better. Our team is benefiting from the processing of your personal data, and they are directly acting on the website. By processing your personal data, you can profit from a website which is getting better and better.

Without the data, we would not be able to provide you the service we are currently offering to you. Your data will be used only to improve the user experience on our website and help you find the information you are looking for.

Recipients of the data

The personal data received through Matomo are sent to:

• Matthias Elsdörfer (host and maintainer of this website)
• SiteGround (host of the server; Privacy Policy)

Details of transfers to third country and safeguards

Matomo and this website data is hosted in SiteGround's data centre in Iowa, USA.

Data subject’s rights

As Matomo is processing personal data on legitimate interests, you can exercise the following rights:

• Right of access and data portability: you can ask us at any time to access your data.
• Right to erasure and rectification: you can ask us at any time to delete all the data we are processing about you.
• Right to object and restrict processing: you can object to the tracking of your data by using the following opt-out feature or by enabling DoNotTrack in your browser:

Opt-out complete; your visits to this website will not be recorded by the Web Analytics tool. Note that if you clear your cookies, delete the opt-out cookie, or if you change computers or Web browsers, you will need to perform the opt-out procedure again.

You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.

You are not opted out. Uncheck this box to opt-out. You are currently opted out. Check this box to opt-in.

The tracking opt-out feature requires cookies to be enabled.

The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

If you think that the way we process your personal data with Matomo analytics is infringing the law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

License

This privacy policy is based on the privacy policy of the Matomo project and licensed under Creative Commons, so you can modify it and use it yourself.