Contact & privacy

Who is responsible & how to get in touch

Yannick Le Guern, Switzerland, runs this personal, non-commercial website and is responsible for the data processing described here. For questions or requests, contact him by email:

cougar@loewin.org

When you visit

This website runs on a privately operated server in Switzerland. Images, fonts and scripts are loaded from loewin.org. For basic visitor statistics, we use the self-hosted Umami software on the same server. There is no advertising, no third-party analytics service and no cookies for these statistics. External links lead to other websites, whose own privacy policies apply.

Visitor statistics

Umami records page views, pages visited, approximate location, browser and device type. Search parameters and URL fragments are not recorded. We do not enable session recordings, heatmaps or error reports.

The IP address is processed to handle the request and generate a pseudonymous session identifier, but is not stored as a field in the visitor statistics. The salt used for this normally rotates monthly. Statistics remain on our own server in Switzerland; no automatic deletion period is currently configured.

You can turn off statistics for this browser. Your choice is stored in this browser’s local storage until you change it or delete the website data. No statistics are sent when “Do Not Track” is enabled.

Server logs

For operation, troubleshooting and security, the web server logs requests and errors. These records may include your IP address, the time, requested address, HTTP status, amount of data transferred, browser identifier and referring page sent by the browser.

Log rotation runs daily; up to 14 archived versions are kept alongside the current file. With daily rotation, this is roughly two weeks. Empty log files are not rotated, so older archives can remain longer when traffic is low.

Your language preference

The languages work without saving a preference. If you enable the option below, this browser remembers your language and the enabled setting in Local Storage. These values remain until you disable the option or clear the website data. They are not sent to the server as profile data.

When you write

If you send an email, your address, message and any attachments are used to handle your enquiry. The email provider is Modulkonzept in 64291 Darmstadt, Germany. Emails are processed and stored in Germany. Emails are retained as long as needed for correspondence or existing retention obligations. Please do not send particularly sensitive information by ordinary email.

Your rights

You can request access to, correction or deletion of your personal data by email, subject to the applicable legal conditions. You can withdraw consent for the future. You may also raise privacy concerns with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).

Swiss data protection authority

Pictures & stories

Suawi and Lumo are plush toys. The original photos are Yannick’s travel memories; the labelled illustrations are created with AI. The characters’ conversations and thoughts are fictional. Historical sources are linked alongside the relevant stories.