Privacy & cookies

This is a personal portfolio site. There is no sign-up, no form and nothing to buy. Below is a plain account of what gets collected and where.

Who is responsible

I own this site and I am responsible for the data: İlyas Saltay. You can write to me about anything here at contact@ilyassaltay.com.

Visit measurement

I use Google Analytics to see which pages get read. It runs only if you accept it in the notice at the bottom of the page; until you do, no measurement cookie is written to your browser. Once accepted, what is collected is the pages you visit, an approximate location at city level, your device and browser, and the link that brought you here. IP addresses are processed in anonymised form. Your name, your email or anything that identifies you directly is not part of this.

Your choice is stored in your own browser. If you change your mind, clearing this site's data in your browser brings the notice back and lets you choose again.

My own visit counter

Independently of Google Analytics, a simple counter runs on the site's own server and uses no cookies. It records only this much: the day, the path of the page opened, the domain you arrived from, whether the device is a phone or a computer, the browser language and whether a WhatsApp, CV, demo or email link was clicked. To count daily unique visitors, the IP address and browser signature are mixed with a salt that is specific to that day and expires the next, producing an irreversible digest; the IP address itself is never written anywhere. The records live outside the web root, in daily files only I can read, and are not passed to any third party. Because the counter processes no personal data it asks for no consent; declining cookies does not affect it.

The YouTube video

The channel section on the home page embeds a video from YouTube. When that section reaches your screen the player loads from YouTube's servers, and at that point YouTube sees your IP address and browser details; if you play the video it may also write its own cookies. That is governed by YouTube's own privacy policy. If you would rather watch it on YouTube itself, the same link is right there in the section.

The Instagram videos

Further down the same section, three of my short videos appear through Instagram's own embedded player. When those cards reach your screen they load from Instagram (Meta) servers; at that point Instagram sees your IP address and browser details and may write its own cookies while loading. That is governed by Meta's own privacy policy. If you would rather watch them on Instagram itself, the link to my account is right there in the section.

Server logs

The site runs on a web server which, as every server does, keeps access logs for security and error tracking. These are technical records and are not used for marketing.

External links

The site links out to WhatsApp, LinkedIn, GitHub, Instagram, YouTube and to client sites. Once you follow one of those links the rules of that destination apply; what happens to your data there is not something I control.

Your rights

Under Turkish data protection law (KVKK, law no. 6698) you may ask whether your data is being processed and request that it be corrected or deleted. Write to the address above and I will get back to you.

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