Privacy Policy
1. Controller
This website is operated privately and non-commercially. Contact: fictiontale@freeprogger.de
2. Access logs
When you visit this website, the hosting provider may process technical access data such as IP address, date and time of access, requested page, browser type, operating system, referrer URL, and HTTP status code. This is necessary to deliver the website securely and reliably.
Legal basis, where the GDPR applies: Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, legitimate interest in operating, securing, and troubleshooting the website.
3. Cookies, local storage, and login sessions
The public reading pages do not use advertising, analytics, profiling, or third-party tracking cookies.
The protected writer/admin area uses a technically necessary PHP session cookie to keep logged-in users authenticated and to protect forms against misuse. This session cookie is required for the service requested by the logged-in user and is not used for advertising or analytics.
The cookie notice itself stores only a local browser flag named finctiontale_cookie_notice_ack_v1 after you press “OK, understood”. This prevents the notice from appearing on every page view. No optional cookies are set before or after this acknowledgement.
4. User accounts and content
If a writer/admin account is created, the site stores the username, display name, role, password hash, and creation timestamp. Novel and chapter content entered by logged-in users is stored in JSON files on the server.
5. Uploaded images
Uploaded cover images or chapter images are stored on the server and may be publicly visible when used in published content. Do not upload images containing personal data unless you have the right to publish them.
6. No analytics, advertising, or profiling
This website does not intentionally use advertising trackers, analytics profiles, newsletters, or automated decision-making.
7. Recipients and processors
Data may be processed by the hosting provider as a technical processor. Data is not sold or shared for marketing purposes.
8. Storage duration
Account and content data is stored until it is deleted by an administrator. Server logs are retained according to the hosting provider’s retention settings.
9. Your rights
Where the GDPR applies, you may have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, data portability, and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
10. Note
This template is provided for private, non-commercial use and should be adapted with the real operator/contact details and hosting-provider retention information.
11. External author links
Authors may add voluntary external links, for example to Patreon, PayPal, Ko-fi, social media, or similar services. These links are normal outbound links and no data is intentionally transferred to those services by this website before a visitor clicks them. After clicking, the external provider is responsible for its own data processing, cookies, payment processing, and privacy notices.