Data controller

The data controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the publisher of this site. The publisher’s identity and address are given in the legal notice. For any question: contact@automascope.com.

Visiting the site and hosting

This site is made up of static files, delivered through the network of Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA). When you load a page, the hosting provider processes technical data that is strictly necessary: your IP address, the date and time, the address requested, the volume of data transferred and details of your browser and operating system.

This processing is needed to deliver the site and protect it against attacks. Its legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in running a secure and stable site). The provider acts as a data processor. Where data is transferred to the United States, the transfer relies on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or on standard contractual clauses.

Cookies and audience measurement

This site sets no cookies and uses no advertising or third-party tracking services. That is why there is no cookie banner. The site does not sell personal information.

To measure audience, I use Cloudflare Web Analytics. This service sets no cookies, stores nothing on your device and builds no user profile; it counts page views in aggregate.

Page views and clicks

To know which pages are read and which links are used, the site records the following itself, with no cookies and no third-party service:

  • the address of the page displayed, and the address of the previous page on this site or the name of the site you came from (for example “google.com”);
  • for each link clicked: the link’s address without its parameters, its type (link to a vendor, cited source, internal link), where it sits on the page and its text;
  • the fact that the calculator was used, without the values entered;
  • the date and time, the country the hosting provider derives from the connection, and a device category (mobile, tablet, desktop) derived from the window width.

Your IP address is not recorded and no identifier is assigned to your browser: this data cannot recognize you from one page to the next or from one visit to the next. It is used only to produce traffic statistics for the site, is not combined with other data or passed to anyone, and is deleted after 13 months. Its legal basis is the publisher’s legitimate interest in knowing how the site is used (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

You can opt out for this browser. Your choice is then kept in the browser’s local storage, without being sent to the site:

Measurement is active in this browser.

Forms and accounts

The site has no forms, no sign-up and no user accounts. It therefore collects no data that you might have typed in.

Fonts and graphics

Fonts, pictograms and images are served by the site itself. No content is loaded from third-party services.

Calculator

The cost calculator runs entirely in your browser. The values you enter are neither sent anywhere nor stored; the site only counts that it was used (see “Page views and clicks”).

This site contains links to the websites of the vendors of the tools it describes, some of which may be affiliate links. As long as you do not click, no data is passed to those vendors. The click itself is counted by the site, as described above. If you do click, you leave this site: the vendor may recognize, from an identifier in an affiliate link, that you came from automascope, and processes your data under its own responsibility. It may set cookies at that point. The vendor’s own privacy policy applies.

Contact by email

If you write to me, I process your email address and the content of your message in order to reply (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). Messages are deleted once they are no longer needed to deal with your request, subject to any legal retention duties.

Your rights

You have the right of access (Article 15 GDPR), rectification (Article 16), erasure (Article 17), restriction of processing (Article 18), data portability (Article 20) and the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests (Article 21). An email to the address above is all it takes to exercise them.

You may also lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Article 77 GDPR). The authority responsible for the controller is the French CNIL (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés).

Changes

This policy is updated when the site or the legal framework changes. The version published on this page is the one that applies.

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