Privacy Notice
Effective date: August 2, 2026
This notice explains how UnixTime handles personal data when you visit unixtime.com, contact UnixTime, subscribe to email updates, or—when enrollment opens—request UnixTime Dispatch SMS updates.
Controller and contact
UnixTime is the controller for personal data processed through this website and determines why and how that data is processed.
- 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, device, request, response, and security metadata associated with a visit. | 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, or legal obligations, then deleted or aggregated. |
| Optional audience measurement | Page address without search parameters, page title, referring page, general browser and device characteristics, language, screen size, performance measurements, and limited session or approximate location information. Network connection data is processed in transit. Contact and newsletter form contents, email addresses, names, and other direct identifiers are excluded. | Understand which technical material is useful and diagnose page-performance problems. Measurement runs only after your permission and relies on consent under GDPR Article 6(1)(a). | Analytics, hosting, and network service providers. | Retained only while useful for readership and performance analysis. The need for event-level data is reviewed at least every 90 days; data that is no longer needed is deleted or aggregated. |
| Interface preferences | Limited settings saved on your device. | Remember choices you request. These settings are not used to build an advertising profile. | No external recipient is intended. | 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). | Form security, message delivery, hosting, network, and receiving email providers, plus 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). | Newsletter management, abuse prevention, email delivery, hosting, network, and receiving email providers. | 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. |
| UnixTime Dispatch SMS enrollment, when enabled | US mobile number, consent and disclosure version, enrollment source and timestamp, confirmation state, message-delivery events, HELP requests, and opt-in, opt-out, or suppression status. | Send the recurring technical article and publication updates you request, prove and honor consent, and protect the messaging service. Delivery is based on consent under Article 6(1)(a); proportionate security and suppression controls rely on UnixTime’s legitimate interests under Article 6(1)(f). | SMS messaging and telecommunications providers, abuse-prevention, hosting, and network providers needed to operate the program. | Until you unsubscribe or withdraw consent. A minimal suppression record may be retained longer to ensure the opt-out continues to be respected and to meet applicable record-keeping obligations. Short-lived security metadata expires automatically. |
SMS enrollment is currently unavailable. The site displays the planned consent language but does not collect a mobile number or SMS consent while the program remains in pre-registration.
You are not required to provide contact-form, newsletter, or SMS data. Without an email address UnixTime cannot respond by email or deliver newsletter updates. When SMS enrollment opens, a mobile number and separate affirmative consent will be required for UnixTime Dispatch SMS, but will remain optional for contact requests and any purchase. Do not submit passwords, private keys, access tokens, customer data, special-category data, or unredacted security evidence.
Optional audience measurement, advertising, and automated decisions
Audience measurement is not enabled until you choose Allow analytics in the privacy control. Choosing Not now leaves it disabled. You can change or withdraw that choice at any time through Privacy settings in the footer. Withdrawal stops future measurement in that browser without affecting processing that was lawful before withdrawal.
The measurement is limited to page use and performance. Search parameters, page fragments, form fields, newsletter fields, and direct identity data are excluded from collection.
UnixTime does not run advertising trackers, cross-site profiling, session replay, or automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. Audience measurement can still involve personal-data processing in some circumstances, which is why UnixTime asks for permission before enabling it.
Cookies and browser storage
UnixTime does not set advertising cookies. Limited storage on your device remembers interface and privacy choices. You can remove those settings through your browser’s site-data controls. Clearing the privacy choice makes the site ask again; optional measurement remains off until you allow it.
Protected contact and subscription forms use an abuse-prevention service that may process browser, connection, and security signals. 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 these categories of service providers only where needed to deliver the requested function:
- Hosting and network providers process the operational data required to serve and protect the site.
- Audience-measurement providers process limited usage and performance data only after consent.
- Form security and message-delivery providers process the information needed to prevent abuse and deliver contact requests.
- Newsletter management and email-delivery providers process subscription, consent, suppression, and delivery data.
- SMS messaging and telecommunications providers will process mobile numbers, consent state, and delivery or opt-out events only when needed to operate UnixTime Dispatch SMS.
- Receiving email providers process messages according to the recipient’s account and provider terms, which may involve another country.
Current service-provider details and applicable transfer safeguards are available by contacting contact@unixtime.com.
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.
UnixTime does not sell, rent, or share mobile numbers or SMS consent records with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes. When the SMS program is enabled, this information may be disclosed only to service providers and telecommunications carriers that help operate and secure the program, or where disclosure is required by law.
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 analytics, newsletter, or SMS 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.
When SMS enrollment opens, replying STOP will be the fastest way to stop UnixTime Dispatch SMS. Replying HELP will return program help. UnixTime must honor an SMS opt-out before sending another recurring dispatch to that number.
Security
UnixTime applies technical and organizational measures intended to reduce unauthorized access, loss, misuse, and unnecessary collection. These measures include access restrictions, data minimization, monitoring, retention controls, and protected transmission. 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.