Privacy policy

This is a personal blog. I collect as little as possible, and this page explains exactly what and why.

Who is responsible

Pablo Montenegro ("blopa"), who lives in the Netherlands and runs pablo.gg. You can reach me through the contact page.

What this site collects

• Comments. If you post a comment, I receive your name, your comment, the page it belongs to, and the time. Email and Twitter are optional and only used to reply to you. Your name, comment and date are published publicly under the post. Your email and Twitter are never published.
• Contact form. If you write to me through the contact page, I receive your name, email and message. I only use them to reply.
• Analytics. Only if you click "Accept" in the cookie banner, the site loads Google Analytics 4 to count page views and see which posts people read. Google then receives the pages you visit, your browser and device type and an approximate location (GA4 does not store IP addresses). If you decline, or never answer, nothing is loaded. You can change your mind at any time with "Cookie settings" in the footer. There are no advertising scripts.
• Your browser. The site stores your theme, language and a few interface preferences in your browser. This stays on your device. See the cookie policy.

Where your data goes

• Comments and contact messages are sent to Google Forms and stored in Google Sheets under my account. Google processes them under its own privacy policy.
• The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. Like any web host, GitHub sees technical data such as your IP address when you load a page. See the GitHub privacy statement.
• Google Analytics (only after you accept it) is run by Google, under the Google privacy policy. I only look at aggregated reports.
• YouTube (privacy-enhanced mode, only after you click play) and Instagram embeds are loaded from those companies and subject to their policies.

I do not sell your data and I do not share it with anyone else.

How long I keep it

Comments stay on the site until you ask me to remove them. Contact messages are kept for as long as needed to answer you and are deleted afterwards.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask me to show you, correct, or delete the personal data I hold about you, for example to remove one of your comments. Write to me through the contact page and mention the post. Because comments are published when the site is rebuilt, a removal can take until the next rebuild to show up. You also have the right to complain to the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.

Children

This site is not directed at children and I do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, I will update the date at the top of this page.