Privacy

Who is responsible

Jo Huys is the data controller for johuys.be. Questions about personal data or requests to exercise your rights can be sent to chefjo@johuys.be.

Technical server logs

When you visit, the reverse proxy records technically necessary data: time, request method, domain, requested URL, response status, bytes sent, IP address, browser identification and any referring page. This data is used only to keep the site available and secure, investigate errors and calculate limited aggregate usage statistics.

The legal basis is the legitimate interest in providing a reliable and secure website. Access logs are rotated weekly with four older versions and are therefore usually kept for about five weeks. Error logs are rotated weekly with ten older versions, usually about eleven weeks. Additional container logs are technically limited to three files of 10 MB.

Visitor statistics

For each permitted public page request, the server stores its time, path, proven content and language where available, method, response status, response body size and measured response times. These core records contain no IP address, user-agent, referrer, query or analytics visitor ID. They are kept for up to 400 days. Limited traffic totals remain available for up to three years. The legal basis for this limited server analysis is the legitimate interest in understanding use and technical reliability; it does not create visitor profiles.

For each browser-like visitor day, only the likely country is determined during the same local calculation. The server uses a locally stored copy of DB-IP Country Lite (CC BY 4.0), updated monthly; the IP address is not sent to DB-IP or another location service. Only totals per country are stored. The free database has more limited coverage and accuracy, so these country estimates may be incomplete or incorrect.

With your consent, we also store limited browser and source information and four actions: opening cooking mode, requesting print, changing servings, and manually starting or resuming a timer. Reduced information is kept for up to 400 days; the bounded original user-agent and any unknown referring domain for up to 90 days. We do not store free search terms, full referrer URLs or free-form text. A limited control reference applies your choice and allows linked data to be deleted. Your choice is remembered for up to 360 days. You can withdraw consent through Statistics preferences. New measurement stops and linked details are deleted within 24 hours. New analytics recovery copies expire within 35 days of creation; withdrawals are reapplied during recovery. Limited consent evidence expires within 30 days after the related details and copies have expired. Google Analytics is a separate choice. After consent, usage and technical data are sent to Google; the _ga and _ga_B76ERHCJZ3 cookies have a configured lifetime of up to 180 days. Google Signals and advertising personalisation are disabled. Local deletion does not erase data already sent to Google. See Google’s privacy policy.

Storage on your device

Your statistics choice is remembered for a functional purpose. A withdrawal that has not yet been confirmed may remain as a limited control reference in the same functional cookie for up to 24 hours; that cookie grants no permission for new measurement. Only when you change servings, tick ingredients or steps, or start a timer is that choice stored in local browser storage. Such a choice is no longer used after six months and is removed on your next visit.

Only when you select Save offline for a recipe does the site register a service worker and store that recipe page and required files in the browser cache. This storage is also no longer used after six months and is removed on your next visit. Remove offline copy deletes the local copy of that recipe. You can also remove all local data through your browser’s site-data settings.

Cooking progress and offline recipes stay on your device. Only the four actions and their limited parameters listed above are sent to our analytics after consent; your complete local cooking history is not uploaded.

Email

When you send an email, your address and message are used to reply and handle the question. Ordinary correspondence is not kept longer than necessary after completion; the guideline is twelve months unless the content requires longer legal or evidentiary retention. The legal basis is the legitimate interest in replying to received communications.

Sharing and external links

Google receives data only through the separately selected Google Analytics integration.

Personal data is not sold or shared for advertising or profiling. The administrator and necessary infrastructure providers may process technical data for hosting, networking, DNS, certificates and email. Social links are contacted only when you choose to click them; from then on, the privacy policy of the external website applies.

No automated individual decision-making or visitor profiling takes place.

Your rights

Depending on the processing, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction or portability and may object. You are not required to provide personal data to use the recipes; technical server data is generated automatically with each web request and email is voluntary. A request is normally answered within one month. A reasonable identity check may be needed to avoid disclosing data to the wrong person.

First contact chefjo@johuys.be. You may also lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority.