Legal & Privacy

Privacy Policy

This site is built with a strict privacy-first mindset. It does not use cookies, does not store local tracking tokens, and does not profile or track visitors across the web.

Overview & Principles

• No cookies: We never set or read cookies (document.cookie is empty).
• No tracking storage: We do not use localStorage or sessionStorage to store visitor identifiers.
• No cross-site tracking: We do not track you across other websites or correlate your activity.
• No advertising networks: We do not serve advertisements, monetize visitor data, or share data with data brokers.

Analytics with GoatCounter

To understand overall traffic volume, popular content, and technical reach (e.g., screen sizes and browser engines) without invading your privacy, this website integrates GoatCounter, an open-source, privacy-preserving web analytics platform.

The analytics script is embedded across pages using the following tag:

<script data-goatcounter="https://yuxblank.goatcounter.com/count"
        async src="//gc.zgo.at/count.js"></script>

What GoatCounter Collects

When you load a page, the lightweight script sends an aggregate event to https://yuxblank.goatcounter.com/count containing only non-identifying technical parameters:

• URL of the page visited (e.g., /articles/terraforming-your-first-aws-vpc/).
• Referring page (Referer header), to know where traffic originates.
• User-Agent string, used solely to identify the browser family, operating system, and whether the device is desktop, mobile, or tablet.
• Screen resolution, to understand design layout needs.
• Coarse geographic location at the country or regional level, derived in-memory from your IP address.

What GoatCounter Does NOT Collect

• No IP address storage: Your IP address is never stored in GoatCounter’s database. It is used transiently in server memory to generate an ephemeral hash (salted with a daily secret) to count unique visitors within a 24-hour window, and is immediately discarded.
• No persistent identifiers: No unique user ID, fingerprint, or tracking token persists across days or visits.
• No personal data: No names, email addresses, precise geolocation coordinates, or demographic profiles are gathered.

Why There Is No Cookie Consent Banner

Under the EU ePrivacy Directive (Directive 2002/58/EC) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), cookie banners are required when non-essential data is stored on or retrieved from a user's terminal equipment (such as tracking cookies, advertising beacons, or device fingerprinting).

Because GoatCounter functions entirely without cookies or client-side storage, and processes only aggregated, anonymous traffic metrics without personal identification, no cookie consent banner is required by law.

How to Opt Out

We respect your choice to browse without being counted:

• Do Not Track & Global Privacy Control: GoatCounter automatically honors your browser’s Do Not Track (DNT: 1) and Global Privacy Control (Sec-GPC: 1) headers. When enabled, your visits are not sent or counted.
• Ad & Tracker Blockers: Most standard blockers (e.g., uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Brave Shields) block gc.zgo.at by default.
• Disable JavaScript: This website is built with progressive enhancement and remains fully readable and operational with JavaScript turned off.

For more details on GoatCounter’s architecture and data handling, visit the GoatCounter Privacy Policy.

Hosting & Infrastructure

This website is statically generated and hosted via Amazon Web Services (AWS S3 and CloudFront CDN). For cybersecurity, fraud prevention, and DDoS protection, AWS CloudFront may log technical transmission data (such as requesting IP address, HTTP status code, and timestamp) in standard web server logs. These logs are maintained by AWS in accordance with standard infrastructure security practices and are not combined with any analytics data.

Mobile Applications

This policy applies solely to the website yuriblanc.it. For privacy information regarding mobile applications developed by Yuri Blanc, please refer to the dedicated NoteShot Privacy Policy.

Data Controller & Contact

The data controller for this website is Yuri Blanc (Aosta, Italy). If you have any questions, comments, or requests regarding this privacy policy, please reach out via email at yuxblank@gmail.com.

Updates

This policy is effective as of November 2026. Any future changes will be posted directly on this page with an updated revision date.