Privacy
What the Site Learns About You When You Read It, and What You May Ask of the Publisher.
What the Site Learns When You Read It
The Access Log
Allomedo has no accounts and no forms. Reading it sends the request every browser sends to every server: the address of the page, your IP address and the type of browser. A search typed into one of the two search fields travels the same way and lands in the same log. The server writes these to its access log so that the site can be kept running and abuse recognised. The site is served by OVH, which holds that log on its servers and deletes it under its own retention period.
Cookies and Measurement
One Answer, Remembered for a Year
Your answer to the cookie sheet is held in four small cookies named wp_consent: one recording that you answered, and one per switch. They hold nothing but that answer and expire after a year.
The sheet has three switches, named here as it names them. Google’s tag and Microsoft Clarity load after your first interaction with a page, whatever you answer. Until you accept Analytics they run in the denied state: no cookie is set, no identifier is kept, and Google receives only cookieless counts, which it uses for modelled figures. With Analytics on, Google Analytics 4 counts visits and page views with its own cookie, and Google states that it does not store IP addresses; Microsoft Clarity records the session, meaning where the pointer moves, what is clicked and how far the page scrolls. Marketing passes its yes or no to Google’s tag as an advertising signal, and the site shows no advertising. Personalization keeps the visit record described in the next section between visits.
Deny keeps both services in the denied state. The small ring in the bottom left corner of every page reopens the sheet, so the answer can be changed at any time.
Google and Microsoft process what their services collect under their own privacy notices, and may do so outside the European Union.
Links to Sentiention and Noo
A Reference to Your Visit Travels With the Link
When you follow a link from this site to Sentiention or to Noo, the address you arrive at carries an id for your visit here and a tag naming this site and the kind of page you left from, so that an enquiry made there can be traced back to this site. The fuller record behind that id, the page you landed on, the page that sent you, any campaign tag and the times, stays in your browser and is not sent. It is kept for the visit. Between visits it is kept only while the Personalization switch is on, and it is removed when that switch is off.
Writing to the Publisher
What Happens to Your Mail
Mail to the address on the contact page is read by the publisher and kept as long as the correspondence needs, then deleted. It is not added to any list and not passed on.
What the Pages Contain
No Personal Data From the Filings
Every name on the site is a company, a device or a place. The filings also name people: the official correspondent of a registration, the agent who represents a foreign manufacturer and the customer contacts of a device listing, with telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. Those fields are set aside before a page is built, so no personal data from any filing appears on the site. Where a manufacturer registered under a person’s name, the site shows that name because the filing does.
Your Rights, and the Grounds
In Plain Words
The controller is the publisher named on the imprint. Analytics with its cookie runs on your consent. The access log, the cookieless count, the security of the site, the publication of records that are already public and the answering of mail rest on the publisher’s legitimate interest in running a reference work, weighed against yours.
You may ask what the publisher holds about you, have it corrected or deleted, object to its use, and take back consent you gave. Write to the address on the contact page, and the answer comes within a month. If you believe your data has been handled unlawfully, you may complain to a data protection authority in your own country.