The masthead

Who runs this, and what I keep

Every paper carries a box like this one, usually in the smallest type on a page nobody opens. Here's mine, set at a size that can be read.

Who runs this

Run by: Youssef Elkhayat
E-mail: youssef.elkhayat@outlook.com

This is written about my own work. There's no company behind it, and nothing here is for sale. Nothing is sold here, no advertising is carried and no money is asked of you, so a full postal imprint isn't required. If you need an address to write to, ask and it'll be sent to you.

What I keep

Close to nothing. None of it is sold or passed on, and no picture of you is built out of it. Anything you'd like to see, change or delete can be asked for at the address above.

Reading this: A web server writes down who asked for what: an IP address, a time, a page. That's how the site stays up, and how anything that goes wrong with it can be understood afterwards. Vercel keeps those notes briefly, and they aren't read for anything else.
Counting readers: A counter goes up when a page opens. No cookie, nothing that follows you, no name attached. It shows that forty people read something; it doesn't show which forty.
Writing to me: The form keeps what you type: your name, somewhere to write back to, and the message. It's read and it's answered, and that's as far as it goes. It isn't added to a list or a newsletter, and nobody else sees it. It's deleted after about 24 months.
Where it sits: In a Postgres database in Frankfurt, inside the EU. Those messages are open to a single account, and that's settled by a rule held in the database itself rather than by a promise made in my code.
Cookies: Two, and each does a job you asked for. One remembers that you got past the password. The other keeps me signed in to the newsroom. Neither has anything to do with advertising, which is why no banner appears asking you to accept them — there'd be nothing there to agree to.
Type and pictures: The typefaces are fetched once, when the site is built, and served from here afterwards, so nothing is asked of Google while you read. Pictures and video come from the same storage in Frankfurt.
Links: Hover a link and a small card appears. It was fetched by my server rather than by your browser, so nothing about you reaches the other site unless you click.

What you can ask for

You can ask what's held about you, and ask for it to be corrected, deleted, frozen, copied to you, or stopped altogether. One e-mail does any of it. There's no form, no fee, and no reason needed. If that's handled slowly or badly, this is the supervisory authority it can be raised with:

Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (BayLDA)Promenade 27, 91522 Ansbach, Germany

The pictures are mine. The people in them are friends and colleagues, drawn rather than photographed, and if you're in one and would rather you weren't, say so and it'll come down. Company and product names belong to whoever owns them and appear because that's the work I did; no endorsement is meant in either direction. The colophon lists what this paper is built with. Anything else here that's wrong, write to me. Last changed August 3, 2026.

If you'd like the paragraph numbers behind any of that: the server's notes and the reader count rest on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, a message you send me on Art. 6(1)(b) and (f), and the two cookies on §25(2) TDDDG.