Controller

• John Linotte, in a private capacity, Brussels, Belgium — the site remains static and tracker-free; sales of the Lab reports are handled through a Merchant of Record (see « Le Lab — shop » section);
• contact : contact@harnais.be.

What this site collects

• nothing. The site is static: no form, no account, no cookie, no tracking pixel, no analytics tag;
• zero-tracker policy by default: if an audience-measurement tool were ever activated, it would be a low-footprint, self-hosted European tool, behind an explicit, non-pre-ticked consent (Belgian law of 13 June 2005, art. 129).

If you write

• an email sent to contact@harnais.be is processed to reply to you (Article 6 §1 f GDPR — legitimate interest) and kept for the duration of the exchange;
• your address is subscribed to nothing, shared with no one, and used for no marketing.

Hosting

• the site is served by Cloudflare Pages (Cloudflare, Inc., United States), which may process technical logs (IP addresses) to serve the pages;
• transfers outside the European Union are covered by the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Decision 2023/1795/EU) and, subsidiarily, by the Standard Contractual Clauses (Decision 2021/914/EU).

Le Lab — orders and invoicing

• dossiers, published pieces and countersignatures are ordered by email and paid by bank transfer against a transfer note that serves as invoice; no payment provider is involved and no card data is collected;
• to process an order, the following data is required: identity or company name, billing address, email address and, where applicable, the buyer's company number. Legal basis: performance of the contract (Article 6 §1 b GDPR) and the legal obligation to keep accounting records (Article 6 §1 c);
• this data is kept for the duration of legal and accounting obligations and then erased. It is neither sold nor transferred to third parties for commercial purposes;
• the author processes this data solely to fulfil the order, keep the required records and provide after-sales service;
• transfers outside the European Union (Cloudflare) are covered by the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Decision 2023/1795/EU) and, subsidiarily, by the Standard Contractual Clauses (Decision 2021/914/EU);
• the conditions of sale (license, withdrawal, guarantee, applicable law) are set out in the Terms of Sale.

AI assistance, automated decisions

• the publications on this site are prepared with the assistance of a harness of language-model-based agents operated by the author: an assistance tool, not a decision-maker;
• no decision within the meaning of Article 22 §1 GDPR, no profiling within the meaning of Article 4 §4 — everything published is reviewed and owned by the human author.

Your rights

• Articles 15 to 22 GDPR: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection;
• request to contact@harnais.be — reply within one month (Article 12 §3);
• a complaint may be lodged with the Data Protection Authority, Rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels — autoriteprotectiondonnees.be.

Changes

• this notice may evolve with the site; the last-updated date appears at the top.