Privacy
What this site collects, why, where it is kept, for how long, and how to have it corrected or removed.
Who is responsible
John Leskas, the founder of Far Akin Research Labs, is the controller of the information this site collects. The founder can be reached through the contact form.
What the site collects from visitors
The site uses no analytics, advertising or tracking. If you pause background motion, your browser remembers that choice in its own storage; the site never receives it. If you choose one of the site's looks, a cookie named far-akin-look remembers the choice for a year. It holds only the name of the look and is not used for anything else.
The contact form
If you send a message, the site stores what you entered (your name, email address, affiliation if you give one, the topic, the related inquiry and your message), the time it was sent and the consent wording you agreed to. Your name, email address, affiliation and message are encrypted before they are stored. The site can lock them but not unlock them; only the founder holds the key that opens them. The site does not store your IP address.
Messages are stored in Sanity, the content service the site uses, in a project separate from the site's published content. They are not shared, sold or used for marketing, and there is no mailing list.
Why, and on what basis
Messages are kept so that the founder can read and answer them. The basis is your consent, given when you tick the consent box. You can withdraw it at any time; withdrawing does not affect replies already sent.
How long messages are kept
A message is deleted within 12 months of the last exchange in its conversation, or sooner if you ask.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, object to its use or ask for its use to be restricted, and ask for it in a portable form. Send the request through the contact form from the same email address, so that it can be matched to your message. You can also complain to a data protection authority; in Greece this is the Hellenic Data Protection Authority.
Hosting, delivery and transfers
The site is hosted by Vercel Inc., a United States company. Its server functions, including the one that receives the contact form, run in Vercel's Frankfurt region; pages are delivered from Vercel's global network, which processes technical request data such as IP addresses to deliver pages and protect the service. Vercel's data processing terms cover transfers outside the European Economic Area with the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.
Messages and the site's content are stored by Sanity (Sanity AS, Norway, or Sanity US Inc.). Sanity may process data in countries where it or its subprocessors operate, and its data processing terms incorporate the same standard contractual clauses for transfers outside the European Economic Area. Images are delivered from Sanity's content delivery network. Fonts are served from the site itself.
Changes
This notice changes when the site's handling of information changes. The date at the top shows the last change.