Privacy policy

This page lists, item by item, what the website handles when you read it. The website is published by Pcheen, which is responsible for it and can be reached at contact@pcheen.com.

What the website does not have

Pcheen has no accounts, no sign-up, no newsletter, no comments and no forms. Nothing on the website asks you for your name or your email address. If you write to us, we use your message only to answer it.

Server logs

The server that delivers the pages records technical details of each request: the IP address, the date and time, the address requested and the browser’s user-agent string. These logs are used to keep the website running and secure.

What a page sends when it loads

When a page loads, it sends the advertising service the website uses a short request with:

• the website’s name, the page’s permanent identifier and its language;
• the part of the page’s address after the question mark, if there is one. When you arrive through an advertisement, it can hold campaign parameters such as utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign, and the Google click identifiers gclid, gbraid or wbraid;
• a few technical details of the browser: whether it has a touch screen, how it displays the page, and the origin of the website you came from, without its path.

The advertising service uses this request to apply the page’s advertising settings and does not keep it. Pcheen does not store these details either, and they are not added to links inside the website.

Advertising spaces

Advertisements appear in frames loaded from the advertising service. Each frame receives the website’s name, the page’s identifier and language, and the size and position of the space. Your cookie choice is not sent. The service shows a banner of the right size and keeps no record of the visit.

The one space that can run the traffic-quality check described next also asks the page for its address, the part of it after the question mark and the browser details listed above. It sends the part after the question mark and the browser details with its check, uses the address only to confirm that it is still on the same page, and, when the checks allow it, opens the next page itself, as described under "Going on to another page". The advertising disclosure says more.

On the front page and on article pages, one advertising space can run a check by a traffic-quality service that the advertising uses. It reads technical details of the browser and the connection, such as the IP address and the user-agent string, to tell visits by people from automated traffic. It runs whether or not you accept measurement cookies.

Going on to another page

When the address of a visit carries a campaign number, as the links in advertisements for Pcheen do, an article page can, once the advertising checks are complete, continue to a related page on another website. That page’s address then carries the campaign number, the Google click identifiers in the visit’s address and the website’s own advertising references. A visit without a campaign number stays on the page.

The Google tag

To measure its advertising, the website can load the Google tag (Google Ads). The tag begins every visit with Google’s advertising and analytics storage refused, and it is allowed to store only after you accept. As long as storage is refused, Google sets no cookies for advertising or measurement; it can still receive a few basic signals that use no cookies. Google explains how it uses information from websites on its own page.

Your cookie choice

Your choice is kept on your device in a first-party cookie named pcheen_stub (value 1 when you accept, 0 when you decline), which lasts one year, and in a copy in your browser’s local storage, which has no expiry date of its own. You can change the choice at any time on the cookies page.

Asking about your data

You can ask to see, correct or delete what the website holds about you by writing to contact@pcheen.com. We answer by email.

Changes to this page

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