Privacy Notice
Effective date: July 17, 2026
This notice explains how UnixTime handles personal data when you visit unixtime.com, contact UnixTime, or subscribe to email updates.
Controller and contact
UnixTime is an independent technical publication operated by Hassan El-Masri, who determines why and how personal data is processed through this website.
- Privacy and general contact: contact@unixtime.com
- Phone: +1 415 705 9169
UnixTime has not appointed a data protection officer. Send privacy inquiries and rights requests to the contact address above.
What UnixTime processes
| Activity | Personal data | Purpose and legal basis | Recipients | Retention criteria |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Website delivery and security | Network and request metadata may include IP address, timestamp, requested path, user agent, referrer, response status, and security events. UnixTime application access logs are designed to record method, path, status, and duration without recording IP addresses. Hosting or network infrastructure may process additional connection data. | Deliver and secure the website, diagnose failures, and prevent abuse. UnixTime relies on its legitimate interests in operating a reliable and secure publication under GDPR Article 6(1)(f). | Hosting, network, and infrastructure providers or operators. | Kept only while needed for operations, incident investigation, abuse prevention, backup integrity, or legal obligations, then deleted or aggregated. |
| Local interface preferences | Theme choice and article-index open/closed state stored in your browser. | Remember settings you request. These values remain in browser storage and are not sent to UnixTime as profile data. | None unless you choose to expose browser data through your own tooling. | Until you clear site data or change the setting. |
| Contact requests | Name, email address, optional organization, inquiry type, message, and delivery metadata. | Respond to your request and manage related correspondence. The basis is taking steps at your request under Article 6(1)(b) where relevant, and UnixTime’s legitimate interest in handling correspondence under Article 6(1)(f). | FormSubmit, the relevant email provider, and people directly responsible for the response. | Until the request is resolved and no longer reasonably needed, subject to any necessary legal, security, or record-keeping period. |
| Newsletter subscriptions | Email address, consent-notice version, subscription and confirmation status, delivery events, unsubscribe or suppression status, and limited abuse-prevention metadata. | Send the UnixTime updates you requested and protect the subscription endpoint from automated abuse. Newsletter delivery is based on consent under Article 6(1)(a); proportionate security controls rely on UnixTime’s legitimate interests under Article 6(1)(f). | UnixTime’s self-hosted Listmonk and PostgreSQL services, Amazon SES, Cloudflare Turnstile and Tunnel, and the receiving email provider. | Until you unsubscribe or withdraw consent. Limited suppression data may be retained to ensure that an unsubscribe request continues to be respected. Short-lived abuse-prevention state expires automatically. |
You are not required to provide contact-form or newsletter data. Without an email address UnixTime cannot respond by email or deliver newsletter updates. Do not submit passwords, private keys, access tokens, customer data, special-category data, or unredacted security evidence.
Analytics, advertising, and automated decisions
UnixTime does not currently run advertising trackers, behavioral analytics, cross-site profiling, or automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. Search runs against a same-site static index.
If non-essential analytics or advertising technology is introduced later, UnixTime will update this notice and implement any consent control required before activating it.
Cookies and browser storage
UnixTime does not currently set analytics or advertising cookies. The site uses browser local storage for theme and article-index preferences. Those functional values stay in your browser and can be removed through your browser’s site-data controls.
Third-party services reached after you submit a form or follow an external link may apply their own cookies or storage under their own notices.
Service providers and international transfers
UnixTime uses service providers only where needed to deliver the requested function:
- Listmonk and PostgreSQL store newsletter subscription, consent, confirmation, suppression, and delivery state on UnixTime-controlled infrastructure hosted in Germany. Their administrative and database interfaces are not intentionally exposed to the public internet.
- Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) sends confirmation and newsletter email from the Europe (Frankfurt) Region. Delivery necessarily transfers message data to each recipient’s email provider, which may process it in another country. See the AWS GDPR Center and AWS Privacy Notice.
- Cloudflare Turnstile and Tunnel protect and transport newsletter requests. Cloudflare may process network, browser, challenge, and security metadata needed to provide those services. See Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy and Customer Data Processing Addendum.
- FormSubmit relays contact-form submissions to UnixTime by email. See FormSubmit’s privacy terms. Do not use the contact form for sensitive or confidential material.
- Hosting, network, and email infrastructure processes the minimum operational data required to serve the site, route email, maintain availability, and investigate abuse.
UnixTime does not sell personal data. Data may be disclosed where required by law, needed to protect rights or systems, or necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Your rights
Subject to applicable law, you may ask UnixTime to:
- confirm whether your personal data is being processed and provide access to it;
- correct inaccurate or incomplete data;
- erase data when the applicable conditions are met;
- restrict processing;
- provide portable data where the right applies;
- object to processing based on legitimate interests; or
- withdraw newsletter consent at any time without affecting processing that was lawful before withdrawal.
Send requests to contact@unixtime.com. UnixTime may request enough information to verify that the request concerns you. You may also lodge a complaint with the data-protection supervisory authority in the EU or EEA country of your habitual residence, place of work, or the alleged infringement.
Newsletter messages must include an unsubscribe mechanism. Using it is normally the fastest way to stop newsletter delivery.
Security
UnixTime applies measures intended to reduce unauthorized access and unnecessary collection, including encrypted transport, restrictive browser security policies, data minimization, private infrastructure boundaries, limited form fields, and application logs that avoid recording IP addresses. No internet service can guarantee absolute security.
Changes to this notice
This notice will be updated when processing purposes, service providers, retention practices, or legal requirements materially change. The effective date at the top identifies the current version.
Primary legal reference
This notice is structured around the transparency requirements in GDPR Article 13. The regulation remains the authoritative source; this page is a site-specific notice, not general legal advice.