Blue Hat Web

Privacy policy

1. Data controller

Benoit Gouthière 403-1381 1re Avenue Québec (QC), Canada Email: bdgouthiere@gmail.com

2. Purposes of processing

Your personal data may be processed to:

  • provide the information or services you asked for;
  • answer the questions you send through the contact form or by email;
  • send you the newsletter, if you consented to it;
  • improve the site and your experience of it;
  • keep the site secure and working properly.

Blue Hat Web does not sell, rent or share your personal data with third parties for commercial purposes.

Legal basis: the contact form and the server logs rely on the publisher’s legitimate interest (answering you and protecting the site). The newsletter relies on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.

3. Data collected

Data collected automatically

  • Server logs: IP address, browser type, pages visited, date and time of the visit. The hosting provider keeps them for security reasons.
  • Technical requests to third parties: to display a page, your browser downloads the fonts from Google Fonts and the AMP script from cdn.ampproject.org, run by Google. These services receive your IP address and technical data about your browser.
  • Videos: if an article includes a YouTube video, it is loaded through youtube-nocookie.com, the version of YouTube that sets no cookies until you play the video. Google receives your IP address in that case too.

Data you provide

  • Contact form: name, email address, subject and message. They are used only to answer your request.
  • Newsletter subscription: email address and proof of your consent (date and page of subscription). They are used to send you the newsletter.

4. Retention period

  • Contact data: as long as needed to handle your request, for 2 years at most.
  • Newsletter data: until you unsubscribe or withdraw your consent.
  • Server logs: according to the hosting provider’s policy, usually 12 months.

5. Your rights

Right of access

You can ask for access to your personal data by writing to bdgouthiere@gmail.com. A valid ID may be requested to confirm your identity.

Right to rectification

You can ask for inaccurate or incomplete data about you to be corrected.

Right to erasure

You can ask for your personal data to be deleted. This will be done as soon as possible, unless the publisher must keep it for legal reasons.

Right to object

You have the right to object to the collection and processing of your personal data. This may limit access to some features of the site.

When processing relies on your consent (newsletter), you can withdraw it at any time, without giving a reason. Every email contains a one-click unsubscribe link. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of earlier mailings.

Right to data portability

You can ask to receive the data you provided in a structured, machine-readable format.

Cost

Usual requests related to your rights are free of charge.

6. Response time

Every request about your personal data is answered within 30 business days at most.

7. Partners and processors

This site uses the following services:

  • Hosting: Contabo.
  • Contact form and newsletter: Pingio, the publisher’s own open-source service, hosted in Europe. Pingio receives and stores the data you send through those forms (your email address and, for the contact form, your name, subject and message as well).
  • Page display: Google Fonts (fonts) and the AMP project (cdn.ampproject.org); see article 3.

This site uses no external analytics service: no Google Analytics and no other third-party tool. Visits are analyzed only internally, from the server logs. No advertising or tracking cookies are used.

Some links to products or services may be affiliate links: if you click one and buy something, Blue Hat Web may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Those links do not pass your identity to the partner. On its own site, the partner may set cookies to record the referral; its own privacy policy then applies. More in article 6 of the terms of use.

A cookie is a small text file stored on your device when you visit a website.

Cookies used

This site uses no tracking, advertising or analytics cookies.

Technical cookies may be used for the site to work properly, for example to remember your preferences.

Managing cookies

You can set your browser to refuse cookies. Refusing some cookies may affect how the site works.

9. Security

The publisher takes appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction.

This site uses HTTPS to protect the data exchanged between your browser and the server.

10. Changes

This privacy policy may be updated at any time. Changes are published on this page, with the date of the update.

We recommend checking it from time to time to stay informed.

11. Contact

For any question about this privacy policy, or to exercise your rights:

Last updated: November 2026

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