Scope and responsibility
This notice applies to the public spiders.fyi website. The controller is Mario V.W.B.R. Obst; the postal address and telephone are in the legal notice. Privacy contact: web@spiders.fyi. The website is served as static files through Cloudflare Workers.
Cookies, search and reading progress
Website code sets no cookies and uses no localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB or service worker. Search queries are processed only in the current tab, never sent as URL parameters or stored persistently. Reading progress, web construction steps and time travel choices remain in the current tab. There are no accounts or saved reading histories. The body atlas, comparison filters and glossary filter also process selections only in the current tab.
Images, animation and external services
Images, code and the favicon are served with the website. System fonts are used. There are no external font services, embedded videos, advertising trackers or analytics tools. Animation is local, can be paused and respects reduced motion. External links open in a new tab without a referrer; the destination is contacted only when a link is opened. There are no uploads or camera, microphone or location access.
AI during creation
AI helps create content and design. Delivered website code contains no AI chatbot or AI API. Search queries, answers and reading activity are not sent to AI providers.
Contact and postal reception
When you contact Mario by email, telephone or post, the supplied contact details and content are processed to handle your enquiry. The basis is generally Article 6(1)(f) GDPR; (b) or (c) may also apply. Communication and postal providers may be recipients. JL Consulting Group GmbH handles the Swiss postal address; commissioned digitisation may involve processing letter contents. Retention is limited to enquiry handling, legal duties or legal defence. Switzerland is covered by an EU adequacy decision. Messages to web@spiders.fyi are forwarded to the operator’s mailbox through Cloudflare Email Routing. Cloudflare processes email addresses, technical delivery data, message contents and attachments for this forwarding.
Hosting and technical connection data
We use Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA to deliver and protect this website. Processing can include IP address, requested URL, time, browser and connection information. The basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR: our interest in a secure, reliably available website. We run no visitor analytics and have disabled Worker Observability logging. Cloudflare may nevertheless process and retain technical operational and security data under its contractual and privacy terms; disabling Worker logs does not eliminate hosting-related data processing. Processing outside the EU/EEA is possible. Cloudflare’s Data Processing Addendum describes processor obligations, subprocessors and safeguards for international transfers, including standard contractual clauses where applicable.
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Search engines and public archives
When publishing, we may notify participating search engines of public page URLs through IndexNow. Submitted data consists of URLs and a public website verification key, not visitors’ search terms or reading histories. The purpose is discoverability of this knowledge project, based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Search engines and archives retrieve content as independent providers. Public archive copies may keep older content accessible over time. Crawler Hints is enabled: Cloudflare may share public hostnames and URL paths with supported search engines. Always Online with Internet Archive is enabled. Cloudflare may submit the hostname and popular public URL paths to the Internet Archive; this does not automatically archive every page.
Your rights
Where legal conditions are met, rights include access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection. Consent may be withdrawn for the future. Complaints may be made to a competent supervisory authority, especially where you live or work. One contact is the Thuringian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information: https://www.tlfdi.de/kontakt/. No automated decisions have legal or similarly significant effects.