Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy
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Hello and welcome to my personal corner of the web 👋

As stated on the About-Page, this website is meant to be my digital outlet for thoughts, experiences, notes...
This is not supposed to be a tool for collecting your personal data - I neither need nor want that!

Below I will lay out (from a tech-noob-perspective) which technology I use and which data I can/do collect. Please note that I am doing my very best to create an inviting, friendly, human and respectful place for everyone!

TLDR:
I will not collect any user data unless you voluntarily choose to share it (e.g. in order to recieve E-Mail-Newsletters).
I do use Plausible Analytics & Cloudflare Web Analytics (free) in a privacy respecting way to help me evaluate my posts and improve my writing.

What data do I collect and why?

If you choose to subscribe to Flummic.com to receive blog updates, I’ll collect:

  • Your E-Mail-Address
  • The date you subscribed

Flummic.com is based on Ghost.org, which is a privacy-respecting, open-source blog and newsletter platform.
I use your email address only to send you emails informing you about new posts, using Ghost’s built-in newsletter system.

Your email address is stored and used under the lawful basis of consent (you opted in). You can withdraw consent at any time.

Should you feel uncomfortable with your subscription, you can always choose to unsubscribe at any time. Every email contains an unsubscribe link for that!
As soon as you opt out, your email address is permanently removed from the list!

Also note that you have a lot of options to stay-updated on new blog-posts. Feel free to explore all the available options here.

What about cookies?

According to Ghost.org, Ghost does not set any non-essential cookies by default and I do not change that.
Therefore, this site uses only the default session cookies, which are necessary to:

  • Keep users logged in (if they voluntarily decided to log in) for comments or admin access
  • Manage session security

To ensure this website loads quickly and is protected against attacks (such as DDoS attacks or malicious bots), traffic is routed through Cloudflare's global network. Cloudflare processes data globally, including in the USA. Cloudflare is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). The European Commission has determined that companies participating in this framework provide an adequate level of data protection comparable to EU standards.

  • Essential Cookies: For security purposes alone, Cloudflare may place a strictly necessary cookie (e.g., __cf_bm) on your device. This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots and does not contain any personal data.

These cookies do not track you across the web or share data with third parties.
No analytics or advertising cookies are in use.

Since all cookies are technically necessary to provide the base functionality, a cookie banner is not required under German or EU law (as of July 2025).

What about analytics?

I do use Cloudflare Web Analytics as a free, privacy-respecting tool to help me evaluate general traffic trends (e.g. how often a post is visited) without compromising your privacy.

  • Privacy-First Approach: This service operates without the use of cookies and does not store any long-term identifiers on your device. It does not track you across other websites.
  • Data Processing: The analysis is based on non-personal data and ephemeral connection details (such as the IP address), which are anonymized immediately after processing.

This way, I get some insights about what I'm doing here, which is really helpful to make more informed decisions and to improve my writing!
Find out more about the data policy of Cloudflare here.

Short note: As I have prepaid for a Yearly-Plan of Plausible-Analytics, I will keep using their (great privacy respecting and open source) service until August 2026. After that I will only keep Cloudflare Web Analytics running as it is free and "good enough" for my needs.

Contact

If you have a question or want me to delete your data manually, you can always reach out to me via the contact information on my About-Page or the Impressum.