Privacy policy

Last updated: 2026-07-16

Who runs this site

Processing.ie is operated by Katsunori Ogane, a UK sole trader, at:

267A Brighton Road
South Croydon
CR2 6EN, United Kingdom

For any privacy-related question or to exercise your data-protection rights, contact katsunori@ogane.net.

What is collected

No tracking script is loaded on this site, and no advertising is shown. There is no third-party script of any kind, no analytics beacon, no cookies, and no per-visitor identifier. Page-view counts are derived from Cloudflare's standard edge access logs (the same HTTP metadata Cloudflare's CDN already processes to serve the request: pageview, referrer, country-level location derived from IP, browser / OS) — the dashboard in Cloudflare's account simply presents an aggregate view of those operational logs. No information is stored on your device by this site for the purpose of measurement.

Your form selections are held only in this page's URL: the chosen source, category, and type form the URL path, and your application date is kept in the ?date= query string (so a specific configuration is bookmarkable and shareable). They are not written to your browser's localStorage or to any cookie, and are not transmitted to the site or to any third party as part of normal use. If your browser is configured to sync (e.g. Chrome Sync, iCloud Tabs), the page URL — and therefore the form selections it carries — may be mirrored to other devices signed into the same browser profile; that mirroring is managed by your browser, not by this site.

Two separate content-delivery networks are involved when you visit. The site itself (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is served by Cloudflare Pages; the recent processing-date statistics used to compute estimates are downloaded from a separate AWS-hosted endpoint at data.processing.ie. Neither download carries an identifier about you — only the standard HTTP metadata (your IP address and User-Agent) that each content-delivery network sees in transit.

Why

Aggregate page-view counts help me see how the site is being used so improvements can be prioritised. I do not sell or share data outside the recipients listed below, and I do not profile individual visitors.

Legal basis

Aggregate page-view counts derived from the hosting CDN's edge access logs (no per-visitor identifier): legitimate interest (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)) in measuring use of the site without identifying you.
Storing your form selections locally in your browser: necessary to provide the estimator as you've configured it (Article 6(1)(b)).

Who receives data

Cloudflare, Inc. — hosts the site (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) on Cloudflare Pages and serves it through Cloudflare's global edge network. The edge terminates TLS and forwards requests to the origin; in doing so it sees the standard HTTP metadata (IP address, User-Agent, requested URL) that it processes as part of providing the CDN service. The aggregated page-view counts shown to the site operator are derived from these standard access logs — no additional beacon or tracking script runs in your browser.
Amazon Web Services, Inc. — hosts the processing-date statistics at data.processing.ie (primary region Ireland) and serves them through Amazon CloudFront.

International transfers

Cloudflare, Inc. is a US company; visitors from the EU/UK are served from the nearest Cloudflare edge location (typically inside the EU) and Cloudflare relies on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and Standard Contractual Clauses for any transfers to the US. AWS hosting of the data.processing.ie endpoint is primarily in Ireland, with Amazon CloudFront serving cached responses from global edge locations.

How long data is kept

Cloudflare CDN access logs (the source of the page-view counts): retained by Cloudflare per their standard operational-log retention for the account's plan. The site operator does not separately retain copies.
Form selections stored locally in your browser: until you clear your browser data. If Chrome Sync, iCloud Tabs, or a similar browser-side sync feature is enabled on your account, the page URL that carries the form selections may also persist on other devices signed into the same browser profile until you clear it on each of them — that lifecycle is managed by your browser, not this site.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask me to:

Confirm what data I hold about you and provide a copy (right of access);
Correct inaccurate data (rectification);
Delete data I hold (erasure);
Restrict or object to processing;
Receive your data in a portable format.

If you believe your rights have been infringed, you can lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission or your local supervisory authority in the EU.

Automated decision-making

The processing-date estimate is a linear regression on publicly published government data. It is not a decision about you in the legal sense — the same input always produces the same result, regardless of who asks.

Changes to this policy

If something material changes (new data recipient, new processing purpose, new categories of data) this policy will be updated and the "Last updated" date above will be revised.

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