This website is operated by Cutotopo (contacts) who is also what regulators would call "data controller" and is based in Italy.

Lawyers would call what i do "legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) of the EU GDPR", I would call it something more like "you cannot browse the web without IP addresses plus I would like to know approximately how many people visit my site, nothing else" (sadly my version is not serious-sounding enough, so the former applies). More on this later.

Cookies?

This website does not store any tracking cookies on your browser. I could not care less about what you do outside of here (also it's none of my business to start with), and I honestly don't think any large mega corporations have any right to know that you have been here. My providers (read the following paragraph) could store some cookies on your browser, but those will be used strictly to prevent downtime or security incidents, as per their privacy policies.

So what data is actually collected or processed?

• To function properly, this website shares technical information with Cloudflare, Inc. and Netlify, Inc. when you visit.
• They will automatically process your IP address (welp, good luck reaching anything on the internet otherwise) and user agent string to protect against attacks, maybe also your current timezone (depends on your browser; not my fault and nothing I can do about it).
• This also means that if you decide to DoS my website, your IP address WILL end up in a blocklist somewhere at one of my providers. That is how the internet works though, and I really prefer telling this to you straight up instead of burying it under six A4 sheets of legalese like everyone else does.
• Because CDNs exist, content may or may not be delivered to you from outside the EU, which means, well, that your data might leave the EU. This is based on a thousand of different factors and I'm not really able to predict where a request will come from before it happens, so now you know.
• I use Sentry (by Functional Software, Inc.) to gather information on errors that may occur: for example, if the blog is not loading because the backend died, Sentry will send me an email notifying me of this. Your user agent string will be included in the error details to eventually help me reproduce more complex issues (looking at you, Safari users), as will be a stack trace, the URL you were currently on, and a one-way hash derived from your IP address.
• This data will be stored in the United States, and will be kept for a maximum of 90 days.
• None of this data can be traced back to any visitor.
• Privacy-preserving analytics are provided by a self-managed Plausible Analytics instance.
• This data will be stored in Italy and aggregated (i.e. not really kept in full, just incrementing a series of numeric counters).
• None of this data can be traced back to any visitor.

If you really don't trust me, just turn off JavaScript, man. It's not like you are missing out on much, and you will be able to view the website anyway.

About data access/rectification/erasure requests

Well, even if I stored your user agent string, I would have no idea of who you are. There are probably millions of other people on this planet using Internet Explorer 11 in 2026, right?

This means that I might not be able to fulfill any requests for the retrieval or deletion of information unless you are able to provide additional, very specific and precise metadata (e.g. exact timestamps and URLs) that would allow me to identify your request, of course if the related subsystem allows it (e.g. analytics do not, since your data has been processed into values and discarded already). So if you are really sure I could have something I should delete, just shoot me an email and I'll see what I can do.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint to your relevant data protection authority, but i would appreciate you at least contacting me before getting regulators involved...

For any other questions or inquiries, don't hesitate to contact me.

Last updated on Feb 1, 2026.
Yes the year in the Internet Explorer joke updates automatically, so in 2027 it will be "2027". Don't worry: the rest remains the same.