Privacy

Privacy notice — STEPHAN ZYCH · Governing law: Belgium (GDPR / RGPD)

Controller

Controller: STEPHAN ZYCH (SRL)
Registered office: avenue de l'université, 101 — 1050 Ixelles, Belgium
VAT: BE 0804.229.671
Contact: stephan@zych.be

No cookies, no tracking

This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics, advertising, or social scripts in your browser.

It does save one functional entry in your browser's localStorage (sz-state-v1) so the interface looks the way you left it. It records only the display preferences you choose yourself — the theme, the window/layout mode, reading-vs-code view, transparency, and ambient-sound on/off and volume. That data:

never leaves your device — it is not transmitted anywhere;
contains no identifier and is not used to recognise or track you;
exists only to honour the settings you actively pick.

Because this storage is strictly functional and there are no cookies or tracking of any kind, there is no consent banner: under the ePrivacy rules, storage that is strictly necessary to deliver a preference you explicitly chose is exempt from consent. You can clear it at any time from your browser's settings.

Audience measurement

Visitor statistics come from the web server's own access logs, analyzed with GoAccess, a self-hosted open-source tool. The reports are private and used solely to understand which pages are read.

What's measured: pages requested, referring sites, browser/OS family, HTTP status codes, bandwidth, and request times — all aggregated.
Your IP address: anonymized at the moment of logging (the last IPv4 octet / low IPv6 bits are zeroed). No full IP address is ever stored.
No third parties: processing happens entirely on the site's own server. No data is sold, shared, or sent to any external service, and there is no cross-site tracking.
Retention: raw anonymized logs are rotated and kept for a limited period (≈30 days); only aggregate counts persist beyond that.
Legal basis: legitimate interest (art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) in measuring audience, with a minimal, privacy-preserving design.

Your rights

You can object to this processing or ask what is held about you by emailing stephan@zych.be. You may also lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority (Autorité de protection des données).

Embedded content

Some pages embed videos via youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode, which does not store cookies until you press play. Those embeds are governed by Google's own privacy policy.