Privacy policy
This policy describes how Robert Anthony ("we", "the controller") processes the personal data of visitors to robertanthony.ch. It is drafted in accordance with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and, for data subjects residing in the European Union, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR).
The site offers its works free of charge. It has no forms, no accounts and no mailing list, and keeps no reader data beyond the server logs described below.
1. Data controller
Robert Anthony (pen name), publisher of the siteSwitzerland — with technical support from Domotics Business
Contact: [email protected]
2. Data we process
Browsing the site
Browsing the pages does not require an account. No advertising cookie or analytics tracker is set. Our host (Hetzner, Germany) logs HTTP requests for security purposes; these logs contain the IP address, user agent and connection date, and are kept for at most thirty (30) days. Traffic passes through the Cloudflare network, which processes the IP address for security and performance.
Downloading a work
Downloads are free and require no personal data. The file is served directly from our server; your IP address appears in the server logs just as it would for any page. No account, no tracking.
Email correspondence
If you write to [email protected], we receive your address and message. That inbox is hosted by Google (Gmail). Correspondence is kept for as long as needed to handle your enquiry, then deleted or archived.
Fonts
The fonts are hosted on our own domain: your browser makes no request to Google Fonts.
3. Purposes and legal bases
| Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|
| Providing the site and the downloads, security, abuse prevention | Legitimate interest (art. 6-1-f GDPR) |
| Handling your correspondence | Steps taken at your request / legitimate interest (art. 6-1-b and f GDPR) |
4. Recipients
The following providers may process data on our behalf:
- Hetzner Online GmbH (Germany) — server hosting.
- Cloudflare, Inc. — traffic distribution and protection; transfer covered by the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. Cloudflare may set a strictly necessary security cookie (
__cf_bm). - Google (Gmail) — inbox for contact emails.
No advertising network, audience-measurement tool or data broker receives your information.
5. Cookies
The public site sets no advertising or analytics cookies. Cloudflare may set a strictly necessary security cookie. The admin area, used only by the publisher, uses a session cookie. No consent banner is required, as there is no non-essential cookie.
6. Retention
- Server logs: at most 30 days.
- Correspondence: as long as needed to handle the request, then deleted or archived.
7. Your rights
In accordance with the FADP and the GDPR, you have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability. To exercise them, write to [email protected]. You may also lodge a complaint with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), or with the competent supervisory authority in your EU country of residence.
8. Security
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures: TLS encryption of communications, isolation of the admin area behind authentication, encrypted backups and access logging.
9. Future changes
Should anything change in how the site handles data, this policy will be updated before the change takes effect.