Privacy & cookie policy
This site respects your privacy. This policy explains what personal data is processed, why, for how long, who it is shared with and what rights you have. Kept deliberately short and honest: there are no tracking or advertising cookies, and your data is never sold.
1. Who is responsible?
The data controller is:
Flanders, Belgium
Email: andries.martijn@proton.me
2. What data is processed, and why?
Contact
This site has no contact form. Contact goes directly by email; whatever you write in that email simply stays in the mailbox and is only used to reply to you.
The tools
The free tools on this site only process what you paste or upload into them, in order to do their job. Nothing you enter is stored once the result has been produced. Where it goes differs per tool:
- Entirely in your browser: the phishing checker (quick check), MUG and RUIN. Nothing leaves your machine.
- Through this server: the excuse generator, which asks Cloudflare AI, and the phishing checker's optional deep check.
- Straight from your browser to Google: the SRT translator translates with Cloudflare AI first, but once the free daily AI budget is used up it falls back to Google Translate, and that request is made by your own browser. Google then receives the subtitle text and your IP address. The page shows the remaining budget, so you can see which one is being used.
3. How long is data kept?
- Emails: as long as needed to deal with your question, and briefly afterwards for follow-up. You can always ask for them to be deleted.
- What you enter into the tools: not kept once the result has been produced.
4. Who is data shared with (processors)?
A small number of trusted service providers are involved. They may only use your data to deliver their service:
| Service | Purpose | More information |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Hosting, security and delivery of the website (CDN), and the AI behind the excuse generator | cloudflare.com/privacypolicy |
| Google Translate | Fallback for the SRT translator once the daily AI budget is used up. The request then goes straight from your browser to Google, so Google sees the subtitle text and your IP address. See the note below. | policies.google.com/privacy |
| YouTube (Google) | Videos on three projects. Only if you press play yourself. See below. | policies.google.com/privacy |
About the videos: the work page carries three videos from the maker's own YouTube channel. The preview image is served from this server, so as long as you do not press play, nothing reaches YouTube: no request, no IP address, no cookie. If you do press play, the video is loaded at that moment through youtube-nocookie.com, the privacy-friendly variant. From then on Google's terms apply and YouTube may process your IP address and device data. If you would rather not, simply do not press play, or open the video directly on YouTube.
Your data is never sold, and never shared with third parties for marketing.
5. Transfers outside the EU
Some of the providers above (Cloudflare and Google among them) may process data outside the European Economic Area. Where that happens, it is done with appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.
6. Cookies and local storage
Only strictly necessary and functional storage is used. Under the ePrivacy rules that kind of storage does not require prior consent, but here it is anyway:
| Name | Type | Purpose | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| · | None | The site itself sets no cookies | · |
| Tool preferences | Local storage (functional) | Some tools remember a setting (sound on or off, for instance) in your own browser | Until you clear your browser storage |
md-swipe-hint | Local storage (functional) | Counts how often the "swipe between sections" tip has been shown on this device, and records once the gesture has actually been used, so the tip stops | Until you clear your browser storage |
No tracking, analytics or advertising cookies are set. You can always delete cookies and local storage yourself through your browser settings.
7. Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to:
- Access: know what data is held about you;
- Rectification: have incorrect data corrected;
- Erasure: have your data deleted (the "right to be forgotten");
- Restriction of and objection to the processing;
- Portability of your data;
- Withdrawal of consent, where the processing is based on it.
You exercise these rights by emailing andries.martijn@proton.me. You will get a reply within the statutory period, in principle within one month.
8. Filing a complaint
Not happy with how your data is handled? You can lodge a complaint with the Belgian supervisory authority:
Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
contact@apd-gba.be · gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be
9. Changes
This policy may be updated now and then, for instance when a new tool or service is added. The date at the top shows when it was last changed.
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