Privacy Policy

1. Scope & Umbrella Relationship

This Privacy Policy applies to anirone.com and its editorial Journal.

Awesome Crate, our browser toolkit, lives at crate.anirone.com and has its own privacy policy. Its short version: your files never leave your device.

2. Information We Collect

We collect only the minimum necessary data required to operate, protect, and improve our website:

• Contact Form Submissions: When you choose to reach out via our Contact Page, we receive the topic category, subject line, message text, and optional sender email address. This information is used strictly to read, process, and respond to your message.
• Server Diagnostic & Traffic Logs: Like virtually all websites, our edge hosting infrastructure (Cloudflare and Vercel) automatically logs basic technical request metadata, including your IP address, browser user-agent string, referring URL, and access timestamps. These logs are used solely for network routing, security incident response, and DDoS mitigation.
• No User Accounts Required: You do not need to register an account, provide payment information, or create a profile to read any articles or browse anirone.com.

3. Cookies & Local Browser Storage

We use limited cookies and browser storage mechanisms to ensure reliable site operation and maintain your user preferences:

• Functional Storage: We use localStorage to store your interface theme preference (anirone_theme: dark or light) and your cookie preferences (anirone_cookie_consent).
• Security & Bot Defense: On our contact route, Cloudflare Turnstile evaluates non-interactive security tokens to verify that submissions originate from human visitors rather than automated botnets.

For complete technical details on our cookies and instructions on how to manage or disable them, please consult our Cookies Policy.

4. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising Disclosures

To maintain free and open access to our technical publications and engineering research without paywalls, anirone.com displays third-party advertisements served by Google AdSense and affiliated ad networks.

In accordance with Google’s publisher policies and privacy regulations, we provide the following explicit disclosures:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to anirone.com or other websites on the Internet.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve relevant advertisements to our visitors based on their browsing activity across this site and other websites on the Internet.
• Users may opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings.
• Alternatively, users can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance (AboutAds) or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (Your Online Choices).
• To learn more about how Google collects, shares, and uses data when you visit partner websites, please review How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

5. Third-Party Service Providers

We partner with reputable infrastructure and technology vendors who assist in delivering our website:

• Cloudflare & Vercel: For global content delivery network (CDN) caching, edge computing, DNS management, and SSL/TLS encryption.
• Google AdSense: For serving contextual and personalized display advertisements.
• Google Fonts: For delivering optimized typography assets to your browser.

These third-party providers process data in accordance with their respective privacy policies and contractual security obligations.

6. Data Retention & Your Privacy Rights

We retain contact inquiries only as long as necessary to address your feedback, provide support, or satisfy legitimate administrative requirements.

Depending on your location (including rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation / GDPR, the UK GDPR, and the California Consumer Privacy Act / CCPA / CPRA), you have rights regarding your personal information, including:

• The right to request access to any personal messages or correspondence you submitted.
• The right to request the deletion or correction of your submitted contact details.
• The right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising.
• The right to withdraw consent for non-essential cookies at any time via our Cookies Policy or on-site cookie manager.

7. Data Security & Contact Inquiries

We implement industry-standard cryptographic transport security (HTTPS / TLS) to protect data transmitted to and from our website.

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data handling practices, please contact our privacy desk at contact@anirone.com.