Privacy policy

Who we are

HausMesh is run by Pirin Publishing, a single-owner limited liability company (EOOD) registered in Bulgaria. Pirin Publishing is the controller of your personal data under the EU GDPR and, for readers in the United Kingdom, the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Our address is 173 Vitosha Street, Sofia, Bulgaria. For anything about your data, use the contact page.

What we collect and why

• Visiting the site. To serve a page, our host receives technical data such as your IP address, your browser type and the page you asked for. When you sign in, our sign-in provider receives the same kind of data. We need this to run and protect the site (our legitimate interest).
• Counting. We count article views and clicks on shop links without cookies. A click record holds which shop link was used, the page it was on and your country. It holds no name, email address or IP address.
• Analytics. We use Vercel Web Analytics to see which pages are read. It does not use cookies, and does not follow you from site to site (our legitimate interest in knowing what readers find useful).
• An account. If you create one: your email address, a password (our sign-in provider keeps only a one-way hash of it), a display name, and what you choose to do with the account: articles you save, products you follow and comments you post. We need this to give you the account (a contract with you), and what you post is shown under your display name.
• Owner reviews. What you write, the two declarations you make, and our decision with the reason. A published review shows your display name and the date.
• Messages to us. If you email us, we keep your message and our reply so we can deal with it.

We do not sell your personal data, and we do not use it to build advertising profiles.

Who else handles it

• Supabase stores our database and runs sign-in: account data and what you post.
• Vercel hosts the site and keeps server logs.
• Backblaze B2 stores the pictures we show.
• Vercel Web Analytics counts visits.
• An email service sends the emails you ask for, such as confirming your address or resetting a password.
• Shops. When you follow a link to a shop you leave our site. The shop has its own privacy policy and may set its own cookies.

Some of these providers process data outside the European Economic Area and the UK. Where they do, the transfer is covered by the safeguards EU and UK law require, such as an adequacy decision or standard contractual clauses, which the providers describe in their own terms.

How long we keep it

• Account data: while your account is open. If you ask us to delete your account, we delete it with your saved articles, follows, comments and reviews.
• Comments and reviews: until you or we remove them, or your account is deleted.
• Messages to us: as long as we need them to deal with your message, and for a reasonable time after.
• Server logs: our host keeps them for a short time for security and debugging.

Cookies

We use the cookies described in our cookie policy, which are the ones needed to keep you signed in. There are no advertising or tracking cookies.

Your rights

Under EU and UK data protection law you can ask us to:

• tell you what we hold about you and give you a copy;
• correct what is wrong;
• delete your data;
• restrict or stop how we use it;
• give you your data in a form you can move;
• stop using it where we rely on legitimate interests, and withdraw consent you gave.

Use the contact page and say which you want. It is free, and we answer within one month.

If you are unhappy

Tell us first, so we can put it right. You can also complain to a data protection authority. In the United Kingdom that is the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk). In Bulgaria, where HausMesh is run from, it is the Commission for Personal Data Protection (cpdp.bg). You may also complain to the authority in the country where you live or work.

Children

HausMesh is not aimed at children, and you must be 13 or over to create an account.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will change the date at the top of this page and say what changed.