Privacy policy
This policy applies to the website of The Continental Patriot (continentalpatriot.com), published in Schoten, Belgium, by Wouter Vermeiren. It follows the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Belgian rules on electronic communications and cookies.
Controller
The Continental Patriot, Schoten, Belgium
Email: privacy@continentalpatriot.com
What we process
The public site is static. We do not ask for an account and we do not host comments. Your browser may leave technical logs with the host (Hostinger, Netlify, OVH, GitHub Pages or another): IP address, time, requested page, user-agent. Those logs are held by the host, not by the desk, unless we later run our own server.
The cookie notice stores only a local preference in your browser’s localStorage (continentalpatriot-cookie). That is not a tracker.
Cookies and advertisements
This site uses Google AdSense for advertisements. Blocks labelled ADVERTENTIE or Advertisement (HTML class ad-slot) are ad placements. Google and its partners act as third parties: they may set cookies and process device, IP and usage data to show advertisements (including personalized ads where allowed).
- publisher ID
ca-pub-2294545764904753and slot IDs are set in the site build; - ads remain clearly labelled ADVERTENTIE / Advertisement and must not outnumber editorial content or disguise themselves as stories;
- for visitors in the EEA/Belgium, personalized ads require a Google-certified CMP (IAB TCF), preferably Google Funding Choices / Privacy & messaging; until that CMP is published we aim for non-personalized ads only;
- you may withdraw consent via the cookie notice, the CMP, or your browser settings.
We do not sell personal data as a separate product. Ad delivery and measurement are handled by Google under its publisher terms and your consent choices.
Pictures
Photographs come from Unsplash and Pexels under their licences. The photographer and a source link appear in the caption. We do not use search-engine image scrapes and we do not use identifiable press photographs of private persons.
Your rights
You have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection, within the limits of the GDPR. Because we hold almost no personal data, the honest answer is often: we do not have a file on you, unless you emailed us.
Complaint: Data Protection Authority (GBA), Rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels, dataprotectionauthority.be.
Contact
Privacy: privacy@continentalpatriot.com
Desk / publisher: editor@continentalpatriot.com
The Continental Patriot, Schoten, Belgium.