Privacy & Data

valjdakosta.com

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The short version

This website is my own personal project. It is non-commercial. I don't run analytics or set cookies.
The only data collected is by the guestbook entries, which you can email me to remove (valjdakosta [at] gmail [dot] com)

What happens when you browse

Every page load sends a single request to my Cloudflare Worker. That request includes your IP address, which the server uses to count unique visitors. Your IP is kept for roughly three days, then it cycles out automatically. The resulting visitor count is shown in the footer and that's the only thing it's used for.

The site stores a handful of preferences in your browser's localStorage: things like your cursor style, whether you turned on the accessible font, and which seasonal themes have already played. This data stays entirely on your device and is never sent anywhere.

No cookies are set. No analytics scripts are loaded. No fingerprinting, no tracking pixels, nothing.

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What happens when you sign the guestbook

When you submit a guestbook entry, my server (a Cloudflare Worker backed by a D1 database) stores:

Your name, message, and optional website URL (the things you typed)
Your timezone, viewport size, and screen size (filled in automatically by the form)
Your IP address, user-agent, and approximate country/city (pulled from Cloudflare's request headers)
A timestamp of when you submitted the entry

Your name, message, and website are publicly displayed after I manually approve the entry. Everything else is kept private and only used to catch spam. Guestbook data is kept indefinitely unless you ask me to remove it.

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Third-party services

Cloudflare hosts the site, runs the backend worker, and stores the guestbook database. Cloudflare processes every request under their own privacy policy.

YouTube thumbnails are loaded on the videos page, meaning your browser fetches images from img.youtube.com and Google receives your IP address.

Last.fm album art is loaded on the music and home pages via lastfm.freetls.fastly.net, meaning Fastly/Last.fm receive your IP address.

That's it. No other third-party services are used.

Your rights

You can email me at any time to:

Email: valjdakosta [at] gmail [dot] com. Tell me roughly what name you used and when you posted so I can find it.

Last updated: 2026-04-10

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