Privacy

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This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics or advertising scripts, and does not ask you for any information. This page explains the little data that is still processed when you read it, and your rights over it.

Who is responsible

wideopen2.com is published by an individual under the name layup, resident in Portugal, who is the data controller for this site. Contact: [email protected]. If you exercise a data protection right and need the controller's full legal identity, ask at that address and it will be given to you. It is also given to competent authorities and courts on request. No data protection officer is appointed; none is required.

What is processed and why

  • Delivering the site. When you load a page, your browser sends your IP address, browser details, the page requested and the time to Cloudflare, which hosts the site. This is needed to send you the page and to protect the site from abuse. Legal basis: legitimate interest (GDPR Art 6(1)(f)). The publisher has no access to these raw logs and sees only aggregated, non-identifying traffic statistics.
  • Images. Article photos load from Sanity's image CDN (cdn.sanity.io), which receives your IP address and browser details in the same way. Legal basis: legitimate interest (Art 6(1)(f)).
  • Email. If you write to [email protected], your address and message are received through Cloudflare Email Routing and read in a Gmail inbox (Google). They are used only to answer you. Legal basis: legitimate interest (Art 6(1)(f)).

Articles discuss NBA players and other public figures in their public, professional role. This is done for analysis and commentary, which the GDPR allows under freedom of expression (Art 85).

What is stored in your browser

No cookies. One item is kept in your browser's local storage, and only if you use the light/dark switch:

  • theme: light or dark, so the site keeps the look you picked. It is set when you click the switch, stays on your device until you clear this site's data in your browser, and is never sent to anyone. Because you ask for it, it needs no consent (Lei 41/2004, Art 5); the switch says so when you point at it.

If anything that needs your consent is ever added (analytics, embedded videos or ads), it will stay off until you agree, and this page will change first.

Who receives data

  • Cloudflare, Inc. (USA): hosting, content delivery, DNS and email routing, as a processor.
  • Sanity (Sanity AS, Norway, or Sanity US Inc., USA): image delivery, as a processor.
  • Google (Gmail): the inbox that receives forwarded email.
  • Authorities, only where the law requires it.

Links to other sites, such as Buy Me a Coffee for donations, YouTube or the sources cited in articles, take you to services with their own privacy policies. Nothing is sent to them until you follow the link.

Transfers outside the EU

Cloudflare and Google rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, with the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses as a fallback. Sanity transfers data outside the European Economic Area under Standard Contractual Clauses. You can ask for a copy of these safeguards at [email protected].

How long data is kept

  • Request logs: kept by Cloudflare and Sanity for a limited period for operation and security, under their own policies.
  • Email: deleted 12 months after the conversation ends, unless it is needed for a legal claim.
  • The theme item: until you clear it.

Your rights

You can ask for access to your data, its correction or deletion, to restrict its use, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interest (GDPR Arts 15 to 18 and 21). Write to [email protected]: you get an acknowledgement within 7 days and an answer within one month. Nothing here relies on your consent, and no decisions are made about you automatically.

You can also complain to the Portuguese data protection authority, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD), Av. D. Carlos I, 134, 1.º, 1200-651 Lisboa, cnpd.pt, or to the authority in your own EU country.

Children

This site is not aimed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their data.

Changes

When this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.