Privacy

Who is responsible

David Gauffin, Görlitzer Straße 37, 10997 Berlin, Germany. mail@davidgauffin.com, +49 163 164 58 70.

Server logs

The site is hosted in the European Union by Hostinger International Ltd. Like every web server, it records each request: the address requested, the date and time, the amount of data sent, the page you came from, your browser and operating system, and your IP address.

That happens so the site can be delivered at all and kept secure, which is a legitimate interest under Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The logs are not merged with anything else, are not used to recognise anybody, and are deleted by the host on its own schedule.

Nothing is loaded from anywhere else

Everything this site loads it serves itself. The typefaces are hosted here rather than fetched from Google Fonts, the photographs and films sit on the same server, and there is no tracking pixel, no advertising network, no social media button and no embedded video player. No request leaves for anywhere else while you read it.

Counting visits

This site counts how it is read, on its own server, with nothing bought in and nobody else involved. It records the page, the language it showed you and the language your browser asked for, the site or search that sent you here, the size of your screen, and, inside a project, how far down the sequence you read and how long each screenful stayed on it. That last part is the reason it exists: it is how I learn which work holds attention and which pages I ought to write again.

Nothing is stored on your device. There is no cookie, no pixel and no identifier that follows you. Your IP address is turned into a city and a country the moment the request arrives and is then discarded: it is never written down. A visit is labelled with a scrambled code made from that address and your browser, using a random value that is thrown away and made again every night, so the same reader cannot be recognised the next day and the code cannot be turned back into a person.

None of it reaches anyone else. What is counted is a file on the same server that sends you these photographs, and nobody but me reads it. The basis is a legitimate interest in knowing whether my own work is read, under Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR, and because nothing is placed on your device there is no consent banner to click away. If you would rather not be counted, this site obeys the Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control settings your browser can send, and you are welcome to write to me at the address above.

The one cookie

If you choose a language, that choice is remembered in a cookie called dg-locale for a year, so the site does not ask again. It holds two letters, en, de or fr. Nothing else is stored, and no cookie is set until you make that choice: this is a setting you asked for, which is why there is no consent banner to click away.

Your browser also tells the server which languages it prefers, which is used once to decide which version to show you and is not stored.

If you write to me

There is no contact form here. If you send an email, I keep it, and whatever you put in it, for as long as the enquiry or the work it becomes needs, and then as long as tax and commercial law require. I do not use it for anything else and I do not pass it on.

People in the photographs

The work shown here was made for the organisations that commissioned it, and is published with their agreement and with the agreement of the people in it. If you are in a photograph on this site and would rather not be, write to me and it comes down.

Your rights

You have the right to ask what data about you is held, to have it corrected or deleted, to have its use restricted, to receive it in a portable form, and to object to its use. Write to mail@davidgauffin.com. You may also complain to a supervisory authority; for Berlin that is the Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit.