AJVAR LADY / THE PAPERWORK / UPDATED 3 NOVEMBER 2026
Your privacy is not a side dish
A little clarity. No hidden ingredients.
Who is speaking?
AJVAR LADY is the publisher name used by this magazine. Questions about personal data, access requests or concerns can be sent to hello@ajvarlady.com. This notice describes the magazine’s implemented website features; it does not describe the separate services you reach through external links.
What happens when you read?
You can read without allowing optional statistics. Essential preference storage remembers your cookie choice. Our hosting provider, Hostinger, processes connection information such as IP addresses and technical request data to deliver and secure the website. We do not use advertising cookies or embed social-media feeds in this version of the magazine.
The counter asks first
Optional statistics are off until you choose Allow statistics. With consent, the site records the page path, daily page-view totals and a daily salted hash derived from a random browser identifier. It does not add your name, email, IP address, referral URL or search-query string to the magazine’s counter records. These pseudonymous records still deserve protection; they are not a way to identify you by name.
Small cookies, clearly labelled
The ajvar_consent cookie remembers your choice for up to 180 days. A matching local-storage preference called ajvar-cookie-choice-v1 controls the banner and expires after the same period. If you allow statistics, ajvar_visit contains a random identifier for up to 24 hours. Cookies are first-party and SameSite; the server cookies are HttpOnly and use Secure on HTTPS. You can change your choice through Cookie settings in the footer or our Cookies page.
How long does the trail stay?
The private counter retains daily records for up to 90 days. Daily visitor counts cannot be combined into an exact count of unique people over a week, because the stored visitor hashes change each day. Any internal readership report must label such totals accurately. Hosting security logs and backups have separate provider retention arrangements; a fixed retention period for those records is not specified here.
If you write to us
If you email hello@ajvarlady.com, we receive the address, name if supplied, message and attachments you choose to send. We use them to answer, handle permission requests or deal with editorial and privacy concerns. We do not automatically subscribe you to marketing. Keep sensitive personal details out of a first message unless they are necessary. Correspondence is kept while needed to deal with the request and any related legitimate record-keeping or legal obligations, then reviewed for deletion.
Why we process it
Optional readership measurement is based on consent. Remembering your privacy choice supports compliance with privacy obligations. Handling ordinary correspondence, delivering the magazine and protecting it rely on the relevant legitimate interests in communication, publication and security, or on steps you request before an agreement where applicable. We do not use automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects about readers.
Who else is involved?
Hosting and email providers process information needed to run their services. Our own counter data is held in a private server directory rather than a publicly accessible report. Social-media buttons are links: visiting Instagram, Facebook or another linked service brings you under that service’s own privacy rules. We do not sell reader data. Provider processing may involve locations outside the EEA; applicable provider transfer safeguards and service terms govern that processing.
Your choice can change
You can withdraw optional statistics consent through Cookie settings. This stops future optional recording and removes the optional visit cookie; it does not make earlier processing unlawful. Depending on the circumstances, you may request access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability or object to processing. Email hello@ajvarlady.com. We may ask for proportionate information to verify a request and normally respond within one month, with lawful extensions where necessary. You may complain to your local data-protection authority, including AZOP in Croatia.
A final straight answer
We take reasonable steps to restrict access and protect records, but no public website can promise absolute security. This notice was updated on 3 November 2026. Material changes to how the magazine uses data will be reflected here; new optional processing will not be silently treated as permission already given.