Effective Date: September 2025
Our website address is: https://royos.dev.
Who We Are
At royos.dev, we are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. The data controller responsible for your personal data is royos.dev.
Contact us at: royos[at]royos.dev
What Information We Collect and How
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent to help detect spam.
An anonymized hash of your email may be sent to the Gravatar service to check for your profile image. After comment approval, your profile picture is publicly visible with your comment.
Gravatar’s privacy policy is here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
Media
If you upload images, please avoid including location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can view and extract this data if embedded.
Cookies
- When leaving a comment, you may opt-in to save your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience for up to one year.
- On the login page, a temporary cookie checks cookie acceptance and is deleted after closing the browser.
- Logging in sets several cookies to save login status and preferences: login cookies last 2 days, screen options 1 year. “Remember Me” extends login to 2 weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.
- Editing or publishing articles sets a cookie containing only the post ID, expiring after one day.
You will be presented with cookie consent options compliant with GDPR that allow you to freely choose or decline cookies.
Embedded Content
Articles may contain embedded content (e.g., videos, images) from other sites, behaving as if you visited those sites directly. These may collect data, use cookies, and track interactions.
Log Data
We collect IP addresses, browser type, access times, and other server logs to help maintain security and analyze usage.
How We Use Your Information
We process your personal data only for specific purposes, e.g., managing comments, site security, analytics, and service improvements. The legal bases include your consent, legitimate interests (such as security and site optimization), and contractual necessity.
Third-Party Services
- We use Cloudflare for CDN services, security, and performance enhancement. Cloudflare may process visitor IPs and related info. Their privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/.
- We use Google Analytics to analyze site traffic and improve user experience. Data collected is anonymized and aggregated. Google may combine this with other data. Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. You may opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
How Long We Retain Your Data
- Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize follow-ups.
- Registered users’ data is stored as long as their account exists. You may edit or delete your information anytime except your username.
We retain information only as long as necessary or required by relevant laws.
Your Rights Under GDPR
You have the right to:
- Access your personal data we hold.
- Request correction of inaccurate data.
- Request deletion of your data, except where we must keep it for legal reasons.
- Restrict or object to our processing of your data.
- Data portability—you can receive your data in structured, machine-readable form.
- Withdraw consent at any time without affecting prior processing.
- Lodge a complaint with a supervisory data protection authority.
To exercise your rights, contact: royos[at]royos.dev
Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
Transfers of Data Outside the EEA
Where data is transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place such as EU Standard Contractual Clauses or rely on services (Cloudflare, Google) that provide GDPR-compliant mechanisms.
Automated Decision-Making
We do not use automated decision-making or profiling that significantly affects you.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this policy occasionally. When significant changes occur, we will notify on the website or by other contact means before changes take effect.
How to Contact Us
For questions or concerns about this policy or your personal data, please email: royos[at]royos.dev