Privacy

Picdar holds very little about its readers. Nobody signs up, nobody comments, nothing is sold and no mailing list exists, so the list below is short.

Data controller

Personal data reaching this site is controlled by its publisher, Sundrift Media Group N.V., Kaya Flamboyan 9, Willemstad, Curaçao. The desk handles data requests at [email protected].

What is collected

Server logs. The web server records each request: the address asked for, the time, the response code, the browser string and the IP address it came from. Logs exist so that faults can be traced and abusive traffic blocked.

Two cookies. On a first visit the server stores two first-party cookies. mz_vid holds a random string so that one browser coming back twice is tallied once, and expires after a year. mz_src notes how the visitor arrived — through a search, a link elsewhere or by typing the address — and expires after 30 days. Together they give the publisher a count of visits by origin; no name or mailbox is stored in them, and neither is passed to an advertiser. Every article still opens if you clear them or switch them off.

Email. Mail to the desk, with the sender's address and its contents, stays only while it is needed for the reply and for the record of any correction it led to.

What is not collected

There is no Google Analytics tag, no advertising pixel, no tag manager and no social media widget. Fonts, styles and pictures all come from picdar.co.uk itself, which means opening an article does not send your IP address to a third-party font or script host.

Legal basis and sharing

The publisher relies on its legitimate interest in operating and measuring the site for logs and the two cookies, and on your own choice to write for correspondence. Data is not sold and not used for profiling. Picdar's web host, and the caching service that sits between it and readers, handle requests and logs on the publisher's behalf, and data is disclosed to an authority only where the law requires it. Advertising placements and outside links take you to other sites, whose own privacy terms apply once you are there.

What you can ask for

The UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 let you obtain a copy of whatever is held on you, have mistakes put right, have the data erased, and object to or limit its use. Write to [email protected]. If the reply does not settle it, a complaint can be made to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

Changes

Any new use of reader data will be described here before it starts.