Privacy and cookie policy
Who processes the data
Operator: Roman Rynda, a private individual, Republic of Belarus (Minsk). Contact: email [email protected], Telegram @yuko_404.
This policy follows the Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 99-Z of 7 May 2021 “On Personal Data Protection” and, for visitors from the European Union, the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive.
In short
- Visit statistics (Yandex Metrica and Google Analytics) start only after you press Accept in the cookie box. Before that their scripts are not loaded, no cookies are set and nothing is sent.
- If you press Decline, no statistics are collected at all.
- Your name, email, the text of AI requests and terminal commands never go into the statistics.
- You can change your mind at any time: «Cookie settings» (in Contact and at the bottom of the page).
What is collected after you accept
The statistics services receive: which sections and windows you opened, clicks on the site's buttons and links, scroll depth, time on the site, the referring source, device type, browser and operating system, screen size, language, approximate location (country and city, which the service derives from the IP address) and a random browser identifier in a cookie.
The site itself sends only events from a fixed list with short codes: window open, close and minimise (window name), project opened (project id), CV download, contact click (type: email, Telegram, GitHub, LinkedIn, without addresses), outbound link (domain only), theme, language and view changes, the terminal command name from the list of known commands (no arguments or output), the fact of an AI request and its mode (no text), wallpaper effects and mini-games (name), scroll depth (25, 50, 75, 90 %), time on the site (every 30 seconds, up to 5 minutes) and the fact of a JavaScript error (no error text).
Yandex Metrica runs with the click map, outbound link tracking and accurate bounce rate. Session Replay (Webvisor) is off. In Google Analytics, Google signals and ad personalisation are off.
Why
To see which projects and sections people find interesting, what works badly (errors, confusing places) and where visitors come from. The data is not used for advertising and is not sold.
Legal basis
Your consent, given with the Accept button (Article 5 of Law No. 99-Z; Article 6(1)(a) GDPR; Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive). Consent is voluntary: the site works fully without it.
Cookies and browser storage
| What | Set by | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|
_ym_uid, _ym_d, _ym_isad, _ym_visorc and other _ym*, yandexuid, ymex, is_gdpr | Yandex Metrica, only after consent | tell visitors and visits apart, counter housekeeping | 30 minutes to 1 year, some up to 2 years (Yandex's rules) |
_ga, _ga_<id> | Google Analytics, only after consent | tell visitors and sessions apart | up to 2 years (Google's default) |
cookie-consent (localStorage) | this site | remember your choice | until you clear site data |
theme, mode, term:hist and other settings (localStorage) | this site | theme, view, terminal history and so on. They stay in your browser and are never sent | until you clear site data |
The services may change their cookies: see the current lists from Yandex and Google.
Recipients and transfers abroad
- Yandex Metrica: Yandex LLC, Russia.
- Google Analytics: Google LLC, USA.
Both process data on their own servers outside Belarus, including in countries that may not ensure an adequate level of protection of personal data. The risks: different data protection rules, possible access by authorities of those countries, and a harder time exercising your rights. By pressing Accept you consent to this transfer abroad, aware of these risks (Article 9 of Law No. 99-Z; for EU visitors Article 49(1)(a) GDPR where there is no adequacy decision for the recipient's country). Without consent nothing is transferred.
How long
By the services' rules. Google Analytics keeps detailed event and user data for 2 months by default; aggregated reports longer. Yandex Metrica's retention is set by Yandex. Cookies last as listed above unless you delete them earlier.
How to opt out and withdraw consent
- Press «Cookie settings» and choose Decline. The site deletes the counters' cookies on this domain and reloads the page; after that nothing is sent.
- Or clear the site data for yukovsky.space in your browser settings (cookies and storage): the site will ask again.
- Ad and tracker blockers usually keep the counters from loading too.
What else the site processes
“Ask AI about Roman”, “Check fit with your vacancy” and the terminal's AI commands send the text you type to the site's server and on to a third-party AI model provider to get an answer, so please leave out personal data. The server uses the IP address to limit how often requests can be made. The text never goes into the statistics.
Your rights
Under Law No. 99-Z you can withdraw consent at any time (Article 10), get information about the processing of your data (Article 11), ask for changes (Article 12), learn about transfers to third parties (Article 13), ask to stop the processing and delete the data (Article 14), and complain to the National Personal Data Protection Center of Belarus (cpd.by) (Article 15).
EU visitors also have the GDPR rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection, and may complain to their national supervisory authority.
Note that the statistics are pseudonymous, so the operator usually cannot tell which records are yours. Write to [email protected] and the operator will help; often the quickest way is to delete the cookies in your browser.
Changes
If this policy changes, the version date above changes too. If the set of services changes, the site will ask for consent again.