Privacy Policy - PatternsWizard

Who is responsible

The site is run by an individual publisher, Amaury (see the legal notice), who decides how the data described below is used. The publisher can be reached through the contact form, including for any request about your data.

What is processed, why and for how long

Purpose	Data	Legal basis (EU and UK)	Kept for
Audience measurement, loaded by Google Tag Manager on every page: Google Analytics, and Hotjar for how pages are used (for example clicks and scrolling). Google advertising features may also be in use (see below)	Pages viewed, referring site, device and browser type, how you interact with the page, and random identifiers stored in cookies (see Cookies)	The basis allowed by the data protection law that applies to you	Cookies: see Cookies. Statistics: as long as the analytics providers keep them under the settings of this site
Answering a message sent through the contact form	Your name, email address and message	Legitimate interest in answering your request (art. 6(1)(f))	The time needed to answer, then a limited period after the last exchange
Protecting the contact form from abuse	Your IP address, to limit the number of messages sent in ten minutes	Legitimate interest in keeping the form usable (art. 6(1)(f))	Counted by the hosting provider’s firewall and in the server memory, over ten minutes at most; not stored anywhere else
Running and securing the site	Server logs of the hosting provider: IP address, date, requested page, browser	Legitimate interest in security (art. 6(1)(f))	One day in the logs the publisher can view; the hosting provider applies its own privacy policy to the records it keeps

No personal data is sold.

Which rules apply

Visitors in the European Union: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies, because the site measures how visitors in the Union use it (GDPR art. 3(2)(b)).
Visitors in the United Kingdom: the UK GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) apply.
Visitors in the United States: the site does not sell personal information. You can ask, through the contact form, which data the site holds about you, and ask for it to be deleted.

Who receives the data, and where

Google, for audience measurement with Google Analytics. The Google tags also send requests to Google advertising domains (stats.g.doubleclick.net and google.<country>/ads/ga-audiences), so Google Analytics advertising features, such as remarketing audiences, or Google signals may be in use. Google may process this data outside your country; its own privacy policy explains how.
Hotjar, for how pages are used; its own privacy policy explains how it handles this data.
The email service that delivers contact form messages to the publisher: a third-party email delivery service.
Vercel, the hosting provider named in the legal notice, for the server logs. Vercel is based in the United States and processes data there and in other countries.

The publisher is established outside the European Union and the United Kingdom, so the messages you send through the contact form are read and kept outside them.

When you follow a link to another site, such as Amazon, TradingView or a course provider, that site applies its own privacy policy and cookies.

Cookies

Every page loads Google Tag Manager, which loads Google Analytics and Hotjar. They store these cookies in your browser:

Cookie	Set by, and why	Kept for
`_ga` and `_ga_<id>`	Google Analytics: distinguish visitors and keep the session state	2 years by default
`_gid` and `_gat_<id>`	Older Universal Analytics tags still in the container	Not given here: Google withdrew the documentation of these tags when Universal Analytics was shut down on July 1, 2024
Names starting with `_hj`	Hotjar	Listed in Hotjar’s cookie documentation

To opt out:

Block or delete the cookies of this site in your browser settings.
Install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on: according to Google, it stops Google Analytics scripts from sending information about your visits to Google Analytics.
Control how Google personalizes ads in My Ad Center.

Your rights

Under the GDPR and the UK GDPR, you can ask to access your data (art. 15), correct it (art. 16), erase it (art. 17), restrict its processing (art. 18), receive it in a portable format (art. 20) and object to its processing (art. 21). Send your request through the contact form.

If you think your rights are not respected, you can lodge a complaint (GDPR art. 77): in the European Union, with the data protection authority of your country; in the United Kingdom, with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Changes

This policy changes when the site changes what it processes; the date under the title is the date of the last review.