Privacy

This site is built to know as little about you as possible. In plain language:

• No cookies we set for visitors.Nothing on the public site sets a cookie, which is why you have not been asked to consent to one. If that ever changes — an advertising or measurement vendor is the only plausible reason — the banner comes first and this page is updated before anything is set, not after. (The site's own editing surface uses a session cookie. It is not publicly reachable, and its login endpoints return “not found” on this site.)
• No accounts and no profiles. Nothing here asks who you are, and no advertising or tracking pixel runs on the public site today.
• Aggregate analytics only. Page views are counted by Vercel Web Analytics (Vercel Inc., United States), our hosting provider. It is cookieless and aggregate — page path, referrer, country, and broad device type — and is never tied to an identifiable person. Your IP address is not stored. Search terms and filters are stripped from the page address in your browser before anything is sent, so what you searched for never leaves it.
• A live reader count. While this page is open in front of you, your browser sends a random number to us every twenty seconds so the site can show how many people are reading right now. Your device makes that number up on the spot. It is not derived from your address, your device, or anything else about you, and nothing is written to or read from your device to produce it — no cookie, and no browser storage of any kind. We hold it for sixty seconds, count how many are active, and delete it. It is never joined to anything else, and it cannot identify you or recognise you on a later visit.
• Country detection for the price tables runs in your browser and is never sent to us or stored.
• Outbound links tell the site you visit that you arrived from smartglasses.today, and nothing more — never the page you were on, never anything you searched for, and nothing about you. That is how the publishers we link to can see the readers we send them.

Who is responsible

Contact: contact@smartglasses.today

Legal basis, and what is actually processed

The only processing that happens when you read this site is the aggregate page counting and the live reader count described above, plus the server logs any web host keeps in order to serve pages and absorb abuse. All three rest on our legitimate interest in running and securing a working website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). None of them stores anything on your device or reads anything already stored there — no cookies, no browser storage, nothing to consent to under the ePrivacy rules that govern device access. That is why you are not asked for any.

Who else touches it

Three providers, all in the United States, all acting on our instructions:

• Vercel Inc. — hosting and the aggregate analytics.
• Neon Inc.— the database holding the site's content, in AWS us-west-2. It holds headlines, links and editorial notes. The only other thing it ever holds is the sixty-second reader count described above: a random number your own tab made up, which says nothing about you and is deleted a minute later.
• GitHub, Inc.— the code repository and the scheduled job that fetches publishers' feeds.

Because all three are in the United States, serving a page to a reader in the EU or UK involves an international transfer. We rely on the providers' standard data-protection terms for it. Given that no personal data about you is stored in any of them, the practical exposure is limited to the transient technical data — principally an IP address — needed to deliver a page at all.

How long anything is kept

Aggregate analytics are retained by Vercel on their standard schedule and contain no identifier that could single you out. Server logs are short-lived and kept by the host for operational and security purposes only. The one thing we store ourselves is the live reader count, and it is deleted within five minutes at the outside — sixty seconds is all that counts as “now”, and rows are cleared past that. We keep no visitor database beyond it.

Your rights

If you are in the EU or UK you have the rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict and object, and to data portability. Write to contact@smartglasses.today. In candour: because we hold no personal data about visitors, most such requests will have nothing to return — we cannot find you in our records because you are not in them.