Privacy

Who is responsible

Adham Hamed is the controller within the meaning of the GDPR. You can reach me at adham.s.hamed@gmail.com.

Visiting this website

This site uses no tracking cookies, no analytics and no advertising tools. The hosting provider processes technical connection data (such as IP address and time of access) in server logs to deliver the site and keep it secure; this is based on my legitimate interest in a secure and working website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Videos are loaded from YouTube (youtube-nocookie.com) only after you click play; until then nothing is sent to YouTube. A few older blog posts may embed a Vimeo player, which loads when the post is opened and may transmit your IP address to Vimeo.

Newsletter

If you subscribe to the newsletter, I store your email address, the language of the site you signed up on, the time of sign-up and confirmation, and your subscription status. I do not store your IP address.

Purpose: sending new posts and announcements by email. Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). I use a double opt-in: you only receive newsletters after clicking the link in a confirmation email. Older subscribers were transferred from the previous newsletter service (WordPress.com) with their existing subscription.

You can withdraw your consent at any time with the unsubscribe link in every email, or by writing to adham.s.hamed@gmail.com. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of what happened before.

Contact by email

There is no contact form. If you write to me, I process your email address and your message only to answer you, and delete them when the matter is settled, unless I am required to keep them.

Service providers (processors)

These providers process data on my behalf. Some are based in, or process data in, the USA. Where this applies, the transfer relies on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or on standard contractual clauses.

• Resend — delivers newsletter and confirmation emails (email address, message content, delivery status).
• Convex — database that stores the subscriber list and the site's content.
• Vercel — hosts the website.
• Clerk — sign-in for the site's editors only; visitors never interact with it.

How long data is kept

Subscriber data is kept until you unsubscribe; after that only the minimum needed to make sure you are not emailed again (your address and the fact that you unsubscribed) is retained. Sign-ups that are never confirmed are deleted automatically after 30 days.

Copies of sent emails kept in the site's backend (recipient address, content, delivery status) are deleted automatically about 30 days after their final delivery status (delivered, bounced, …); emails that never reached a final status about 60 days after they were created. The site's database keeps only, per newsletter, a delivery status linked to your subscription (no copy of the email). Resend, the delivery service, keeps its own delivery logs according to its own retention periods.

Your rights

You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection, and the right to withdraw consent at any time. Write to adham.s.hamed@gmail.com to exercise them.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. In Austria this is the Datenschutzbehörde (dsb.gv.at).

How to unsubscribe

Click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any newsletter, or reply to adham.s.hamed@gmail.com and I will remove you.