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Privacy notice

What personal data the Sentinary website processes, why, for how long, and how to exercise your rights.

This page explains what personal data is processed when you visit Sentinary. Version of 12 November 2026.

In brief

  • Visit statistics (Google Analytics) only switch on if you accept them.
  • We also count page views with a cookieless system of our own that does not store your IP address.
  • No advertising and no advertising profiles.
  • Forms (contact, newsletter, downloadable resources) collect only the data you type in.

Controller

The controller is the publisher of Sentinary. Its identity and contact details are published in the legal notice.

Browsing data

The site is hosted by Vercel Inc. Like any hosting service, its servers record some details of each visit for technical and security reasons, including the IP address, date and time, the page requested and the browser type. This data is used to keep the site working and to protect it from abuse. The legal basis is the controller’s legitimate interest.

Vercel is based in the United States, so processing may involve a transfer of data outside the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, under the safeguards described in the provider’s documentation.

Forms: contact, newsletter, resources

When you fill in a form we process the data you enter: email address, name, company, what you do, how many systems you handle, your message and, for the check-up, a summary of your answers.

  • Contact: we use the data to reply to you. The legal basis is your request.
  • Downloads and the check-up: we use your email to give you the material you asked for and the other details to understand who reads us. You do not have to subscribe to the newsletter to get the material.
  • Newsletter: you only receive it if you ask, through its own form or by ticking the box in the others. The legal basis is your consent. You can unsubscribe at any time from the link at the bottom of every email.

We do not sell or pass contacts on to third parties. We keep them for as long as needed to reply to you or while you remain subscribed, and we delete them if you ask.

Contacts are kept in a database we run ourselves, on servers in the European Union, and emails are sent from the domain’s own mailbox, with no external marketing platforms.

Statistics without cookies

To know which pages are read and where readers come from, the site counts page views with a system of our own, without cookies and without third-party services. It applies to every visitor, including those who reject Google Analytics.

For each page view we record:

  • the page read and, if the address does not exist, the fact that it was a page not found;
  • the referring site, only the domain name (for example google.com), without the search terms;
  • any campaign parameters in the address (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign);
  • the language of the page, the country derived from the IP address, the device type (phone, tablet or computer) and the browser family, without the version;
  • an anonymous code that lasts a single day, used to count unique visitors. It is calculated from the IP address and the browser together with a random key that changes every day and is deleted the day after: it cannot be traced back to the IP address and cannot link visits on different days.

What we do not store: the IP address, cookies or any other data on your device, identifiers that last longer than a day. This data is not combined with data from the forms.

The legal basis is the controller’s legitimate interest in knowing which pages are read, to understand what readers need and improve the site. The data is kept in our own database, on servers in the European Union, and deleted after 13 months.

If your browser sends the Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track privacy signal, the visit is not recorded. You can also object at any time by writing to the controller.

Visit statistics

If you accept, the site uses Google Analytics 4, a service of Google Ireland Limited, to count visits and see which articles are read. Analytics collects data such as pages viewed, length of visit, device type, approximate location and an identifier stored in a cookie. The legal basis is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time from the “Cookie preferences” link at the bottom of every page.

Google may also process this data outside the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, under the safeguards described in its own documentation. Analytics advertising features are switched off.

Cookies

Details are in the cookie notice.

Fonts and images

Fonts and images are served by the site itself. Visiting does not trigger calls to third-party services to load them.

Articles link to outside sources, such as regulators’ websites and legislation databases. When you follow a link, the destination site’s rules apply.

Your rights

You can ask the controller for access to your data, for it to be corrected or erased, for processing to be restricted, and you can object to processing. You also have the right to complain to the data protection authority in your country, which in the UK is the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Changes

If the tools used by the site change, for example with the introduction of a newsletter, this page will be updated before the change takes effect.