Last updated: 28 July 2026
This site sets no cookies, loads nothing from third-party servers, and stores no IP addresses. There is no analytics, no tracking, and nothing is shared with anyone. If you are signed in to earl.ee, you additionally see a bar carrying your account — there is a section on that below. What follows is the same statement at length.
Stefan Keller, reachable at earl@earl.ee.
For a server to answer at all, it has to know the requester's IP address — that is technically unavoidable and true of every website. On earl.ee that address is used only for the duration of the request and not retained afterwards: the web server runs without an access log, and the services behind it record only the hostname that was requested — no address, no identifier, nothing traceable to a person.
The browser's language preference (the “Accept-Language” header) is also read, to decide whether to serve the German or the English version. It too is used for that single decision and not stored.
The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR: the legitimate interest in being able to deliver the page you asked for.
The servers are hosted by Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany. Hetzner acts as a processor under Art. 28 GDPR and may keep its own logs at the network level, over which we have no control. The data does not leave the EU.
An email to earl@earl.ee arrives on our own mail server — it passes through no third-party service. Your address and the content are used to answer you, and kept as long as the matter is unresolved. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) or (f) GDPR.
This site sets no cookies of its own. But if you are signed in to earl.ee you already carry a platform session cookie, and your browser sends it to every earl.ee address — including this one. That is what lets you see the bar with your account at the top, instead of having to sign in again.
As little as possible is processed for it: the platform's session service checks the cookie and passes this site nothing but an anonymous session identifier — the site never sees the cookie itself. To label the bar, it then exchanges that identifier for your account name, its initials and the moment the session expires. None of it is stored; it exists only for the duration of this single page view. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (performance of the service).
If you are not signed in, none of this happens: with no session cookie this site asks no one anything, and the bar does not appear.
No cookies from this site. No JavaScript. No fonts, scripts or images from other servers — the entire page comes from us, so no connection to a third party is made that could observe who is reading it. No analytics, no ad networks, no profiling, and no automated decision-making.
You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection (Art. 15–21 GDPR). In practice this concerns only an email you have sent us — beyond that, no data exists here that could be attributed to you.
You may also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR).
This statement describes the state as of the date above. If what the platform processes changes, this text changes with it — it is part of the site's source code and is published together with it.