--- title: "Privacy policy | Liviu.dev" description: "How Liviu.dev collects, uses and protects the personal data you share through its contact, hire-me and newsletter forms." canonical_url: "https://liviu.dev/privacy-policy" locale: en meta: "og:description": "How Liviu.dev collects, uses and protects the personal data you share through its contact, hire-me and newsletter forms." "og:image": "https://liviu.dev/og-card.png" "og:image:height": "600" "og:image:type": image/png "og:image:width": "1200" "og:title": "Privacy policy" --- > Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://liviu.dev/llms.txt) # Privacy policy ## Last updated on November 4, 2026 ## Who I am Liviu.dev is the website of Liviu Zachin, a freelance software developer based in Romania. For the personal data described here I am the data controller. You can reach me at [contact@liviu.dev](mailto:contact@liviu.dev) about anything in this policy. This policy covers the website at https://liviu.dev. Work I do for clients is governed by the contract for that project. ## What I collect and why I only collect what you send me or what the site needs to work. | What | When | Why | Legal basis | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Name, email, company, message, and the service, budget and timeline you pick | You send the contact or hire-me form | To reply to your enquiry and prepare a proposal | Steps you ask for before a contract, and my legitimate interest in answering you | | Email address | You subscribe to the newsletter | To send you new articles | Your consent, which you can withdraw at any time | | Name, organisation, job title, testimonial text and rating | You submit a testimonial | To review it and, once I approve it, show it on the site | Your consent | | Payment details | You buy a mentorship plan | PayPal processes the payment; I receive a confirmation, not your card details | Performing the contract | | Pages visited, device and approximate location | Only if you allow analytics | To understand which pages are useful | Your consent | | Technical data such as IP address and browser | Every visit | To deliver the site, protect the forms from spam and keep it secure | Legitimate interest | I don't sell your data, I don't use it for advertising, and I don't make automated decisions about you. ## Services that process data for me These providers handle data on my behalf, only for the purposes above: - **Supabase** stores the messages, newsletter subscriptions and testimonials sent through the site. - **Amazon Web Services (SES)** sends the notification emails for those forms, from the EU (Milan) region. - **Google reCAPTCHA** checks that the forms are used by people, not bots. Google receives technical data about your visit when a form loads. - **Google Analytics** measures visits, but only after you accept analytics in the cookie banner. - **PayPal** handles payments for mentorship plans. - **Cloudinary** serves some of the images on the site. - My **hosting provider** keeps standard server logs. Some of these providers may process data outside the European Economic Area. Where they do, they rely on safeguards recognised under the GDPR, such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. ## Cookies The site sets only a few cookies: - `theme` remembers whether you chose the light or dark theme. - `i18n_redirected` remembers your language. - `cookie_consent` remembers your answer in the cookie banner, for 180 days. - `_ga` and `_ga_*` are set by Google Analytics, and only if you accept analytics. Google reCAPTCHA may also set its own cookies when a page with a form loads. You can change your analytics choice at any time with the **Cookie settings** link in the footer. ## How long I keep it - **Enquiries:** I keep these while we talk and for up to two years after our last contact, unless they lead to a project. Then they are kept as long as the contract and accounting rules require. - **Newsletter subscriptions:** I keep these until you unsubscribe or ask me to delete them. - **Testimonials:** I keep these until you ask me to remove them. - **Analytics data:** Google Analytics keeps this for its configured retention period. ## Your rights Under the GDPR you can: - ask for a copy of your data, correct it or have it deleted - object to or restrict how I use it - take it with you, where that applies - withdraw your consent at any time Write to [contact@liviu.dev](mailto:contact@liviu.dev) and I'll reply within one month. If you think I have mishandled your data, you can also complain to a data protection authority. 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