(Privacy & cookies)
Privacy & cookies
Last updated: 14 October 2026
v1dal.com sets no cookies of its own, shows no ads and uses no tools that follow you from site to site. This page lists everything the site does collect, why, and for how long.
1. Who is responsible
This website is run by Dimitrios Vidalis (V1DAL), Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece, who is the controller of the personal data described here. For anything about your data, email info@v1dal.com.
2. The contact form
When you send the form, the site stores your name, email address, the budget you picked, your message, the time it was sent and the IP address it came from.
- Why: to reply to you and, if you ask for it, to prepare an offer. The IP address is kept to stop spam and abuse of the form.
- Legal basis: steps taken at your request before a possible contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR); for the IP address, the legitimate interest in keeping the form free of abuse (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
- Where: the message is saved on the website's server and also sent by email to info@v1dal.com. You get a one-off confirmation email at the address you entered, with no copy of your message in it.
- How long: the copy on the server is deleted automatically 24 months after it was sent. If we go on to work together, the emails and documents of that project are kept for as long as Greek tax and accounting law requires.
3. Anonymous visit statistics
To see which pages are read, the site counts visits on its own server, without any outside service. For each page view or click it records: the page, the time, which button or project was opened, the domain of the website that linked here (for example google.com), the language of the page and the device type (phone, tablet or computer).
It stores no IP address, no cookie and no identifier, so these records cannot be linked to you or to each other. The server holds a visitor's IP address in memory for at most 10 minutes, only to limit how many records one visitor can send, and never writes it down.
- Legal basis: the legitimate interest in understanding how the site is used (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
- How long: deleted automatically after 24 months.
- Switching it off: nothing is recorded if your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, or if you switch it off here:
The site also uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts visits and measures how fast pages load. A small script from Cloudflare sends Cloudflare the page address, the website that linked here, your browser and device type, the country (worked out from your IP address) and loading times. It sets no cookies, does not fingerprint your browser and does not follow you to other sites. The site only sees totals in Cloudflare's dashboard.
- Legal basis: the legitimate interest in understanding how the site is used and keeping it fast (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
- Switching it off: the switch above covers only the site's own statistics. To stop Cloudflare's measurement too, block static.cloudflareinsights.com, which most content blockers do by default.
4. Cookies and browser storage
The site itself sets no cookies. It keeps a few small settings in your browser's storage. They never leave your device and are not used to track you:
| Name | What it holds | Kept until |
|---|---|---|
| v1dal-lang | The language you chose (English or Greek) | You clear your browser data |
| v1dal-notice | That you closed the cookie notice | You clear your browser data |
| v1dal-stats | That you switched the anonymous statistics off (only if you did) | You clear your browser data |
| v1dal-sound | Whether you chose sound on or off, so a refresh does not ask again | You close the tab |
Cloudflare, which protects and delivers the site, may set a strictly necessary security cookie (such as __cf_bm) if traffic from your connection looks automated. It is used only to tell people from bots.
5. Technical data when you visit
Like any website, loading a page sends your IP address and basic browser information to the servers that deliver it. The site's server does not keep access logs of your visits.
6. Who else handles data
- Hetzner Online GmbH (Germany) hosts the website's server, where the form messages and statistics are stored.
- Cloudflare, Inc. delivers and protects the site, runs its DNS, measures visits (Web Analytics) and forwards email sent to info@v1dal.com. Cloudflare may process data outside the EU under the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.
- Google (Gmail) carries and stores the email copy of each form message.
These providers act on the site's behalf. Your data is not sold, shared for advertising or used to build profiles. The fonts on this site are served from its own server, so no request goes to Google Fonts or any other font service.
7. Your rights
You can ask to see the data held about you, to correct it, to delete it, to restrict or object to its use, and to receive it in a portable format. Email info@v1dal.com and you will get a reply within one month.
You can also complain to the Greek data protection authority: Hellenic Data Protection Authority, Kifisias 1-3, 115 23 Athens, www.dpa.gr.
8. Changes
If this page changes, the new version is published here with a new date at the top.