This privacy statement was last updated on May 28, 2026, and applies to you. I reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy. I recommend that you check this page regularly to be aware of any changes.
Who and what
You are looking at the privacy policy page for https://frenck.dev.
This is my personal website. I have a registered company to make financial handling easier for myself. I am the sole owner, without any other employees.
For full transparency, here are all the company details:
Frenck.dev
Kotkampweg 148
7531 AT Enschede
The Netherlands
Dutch KVK/CoC: 76336670
Owner: Franck Nijhof
Website: https://frenck.dev
Email: privacy@frenck.dev
Phone number: +31646925632
If you experience any problems with this privacy policy or statement, please, by all means, get in touch with me directly.
What personal data is collected here and why?
I have absolutely zero interest in your personal data, beyond what is needed to make this website's newsletter subscriptions, memberships, and commenting system work.
This is the data this website collects, most of which comes from Ghost, the software that powers this site:
- Email address.
- Your name. This is optional, feel free to leave it empty.
- Your membership status. Ghost distinguishes between paid and free site members. Since I don't collect payments, everyone is a free member. If this changes in the future, I'll adjust this policy.
- Email open rate. This is a percentage telling me what proportion of email newsletters you have opened. The aggregated numbers are what interest me.
- The country you signed up from.
- The date your account was created.
I have no intention of sharing or selling this data. That's not why I'm here.
Why am I allowed to process this data?
I process the data listed above for a few boring but necessary reasons:
- To provide the newsletter, memberships, and comments you asked for.
- To keep the website working and secure.
- To understand, in aggregate, whether people read the site.
- To comply with legal or administrative obligations when those apply.
Where consent is required, such as for optional cookies, you can accept, reject, or change that consent through the cookie banner.
Services used by this site
This site uses a few services to make the site work:
- Ghost, for hosting, memberships, newsletters, comments, and basic site statistics. You can read Ghost's privacy policy here: https://ghost.org/privacy/
- CookieYes, for cookie consent management.
- Plausible, for privacy-friendly website analytics.
- Gravatar, when commenters have a Gravatar connected to their email address.
- Embedded services, only when a post includes content from another website.
Analytics
I have privacy-friendly and GDPR-compliant analytics. No, no Google shizzle. I use Plausible right now. But that is mostly here to remind myself that I'm not just talking into a void.
Additionally, Ghost tracks the number of readers for each post.
Cookies and consent
Any cookies can be controlled and customized to your liking. The first time you enter my website, you're presented with a cookie banner that allows you to decide which ones to accept or not. If you want to change your preference, click the cookie circle at the bottom left of my website.
I do not run ads on this website, and I do not have an ad provider.
Comments
Subscribed readers can leave comments on the site. If you do, the comment will show your name and your Gravatar if you have associated one with it. That's it.
Comments may remain visible until they are removed. If you want a comment removed, email me at privacy@frenck.dev.
Embedded content
Posts on this site may include embedded content, such as videos, images, or articles.
Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visited that other website directly.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, and embed additional third-party tracking. They may monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long do I keep your data?
If you leave a comment here, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. There's not much metadata.
If you are a registered user, I store your name, email address, and the other data mentioned in the list above in a user profile. If you unsubscribe from email, Ghost marks you as unsubscribed. If you want your member profile deleted entirely, email me at privacy@frenck.dev and I will remove it unless I am legally required to keep something.
What rights do you have over the data?
There's almost no data; it's just what is listed above. But if you want to check, I'm happy to send you a copy of what is on file.
You can ask me to:
- send you a copy of the personal data I have about you;
- correct it if something is wrong;
- delete it, where I am allowed to do that;
- stop processing it, where that applies;
- withdraw consent for optional cookies or newsletter emails.
You can email privacy@frenck.dev for that. If you think I am handling privacy badly, you can also contact the Dutch Data Protection Authority: https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en
There's a legal bit here about this that does not include any data I am obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. As far as I know, I don't do this, and I can’t think of when this could happen, but you never know.
That's it, that simple.
../Frenck
PS: This page was inspired by the privacy policy page of Bill Bennett.