These paragraphs set out, in ordinary language, what is noticed when someone opens a page of Belgium Travel Notes, what is not done with that trace, and where you can write if you have a question. The only address for that purpose is [email protected].
This is a notebook, not a desk that takes details
Belgium Travel Notes is a static guide to travelling in Belgium. There is no account to open, no newsletter to join, and no form on these pages that asks for a name, a passport number or a payment. If you follow a link that leaves this site, the rules of the destination apply from that point, and no extra report of that click is sent back here.
The small technical trace of a page request
When a browser asks for a page, a stylesheet or a picture, the request carries a short set of ordinary network facts: the address that was asked for, the time, the kind of client, and sometimes the page you came from. That is the same traffic any site receives in order to deliver a file and to notice a fault or an abuse. It is not used to assemble a portrait of a reader.
How we count reads, from /s/, and without cookies
To see which notes are actually opened, we use Umami. The script loads from /s/script.js on this same site, and the counts are sent to /s/. Your browser therefore talks to a path on Belgium Travel Notes, not to a separate measurement host. The count works without cookies: we do not place a cookie on your device, we do not follow you onto other sites, we do not use the figures for advertising, and we do not build audiences. We look at aggregated reading numbers, not at a file about one person.
When a message arrives
If you want to ask a question or exercise a right, write only to [email protected]. We keep the message and the sender's address for as long as we need them in order to reply and, if a thread continues, to understand it. We do not add the address to a mailing list or hand it on for a commercial purpose.
How long a record stays, and what you can request
A message is kept for as long as it takes to close the enquiry and to pick up the thread if it returns. The reading figures are kept in aggregated form for as long as they help us see how the guide is used. You can ask what information we hold that concerns you, that it be corrected or erased, or that the counting be limited in so far as it affects you. A short note to the same address, saying what you are asking for, is enough for us to take it up.
The single address for this subject
Anything that belongs to this note, or to your information in connection with this guide, should be sent to [email protected].