Privacy &
cookies policy.

1. Controller and contact

The controller of personal data processed in connection with running SebSimTech and handling correspondence is Sebastian Parysz, the creator of SebSimTech, based in the United Kingdom. For privacy enquiries and to exercise your rights, email sebastian.parysz@gmail.com.

2. What data do we process, and why?

Email enquiries. If you send a message, your email address, the information you include and any attachments are processed to answer your enquiry and handle correspondence. The legal basis is the controller’s legitimate interest in responding to enquiries (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). If you enquire about entering into a contract as a prospective party, the basis for steps taken before entering into that contract is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR.

Website operation and security. Connecting to the website requires technical data, including your IP address, to be sent to the server. The hosting infrastructure may also process the time of the request, the requested address, browser information and errors. The purpose is to deliver the website, maintain security and diagnose problems. The legitimate interest is operating a reliable and secure website (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Providing information in a message is voluntary, but a contact address and details of your enquiry are needed to reply. The website has no registration form, newsletter or online shop of its own. SebSimTech does not make automated decisions about visitors that produce legal effects, nor does it carry out its own advertising profiling.

3. Providers and external services

The website is published using OpenAI’s Sites service. Hosting and infrastructure providers may process technical data needed to operate it. Email correspondence is received in a Gmail inbox operated by Google.

Fonts and video thumbnails are stored with the website’s files and served from its domain. Displaying them does not require a connection to Google Fonts or YouTube’s thumbnail servers. Videos are ordinary links, with no embedded players. Clicking a video link opens the separate YouTube service.

Providers may process data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United Kingdom and the United States. Information about processing locations, retention periods and their transfer protection mechanisms is available in the OpenAI privacy policy and Google privacy policy. You can also contact the controller for information about safeguards relating to your data.

4. How long is data kept?

Correspondence is kept for the time needed to handle the enquiry and continue related arrangements. Where messages are needed to perform a contract, meet legal obligations or establish, exercise or defend legal claims, retention depends on the duration of those obligations and the relevant limitation periods. Data no longer needed for these purposes should be deleted. Infrastructure providers’ retention periods for technical data are governed by the terms of their services.

5. Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your device by the browser. Other browser storage mechanisms can perform similar functions.

SebSimTech’s own code does not set cookies. After you click “Got it”, it uses localStorage under the key sebsimtech-privacy-notice-v2 to remember that you dismissed the notice. The record contains the notice version and a date. It is treated as valid for 180 days, after which the notice appears again. You can delete the record in your browser’s website data settings. It is used only to remember your request to dismiss the notice, not for advertising or visitor analytics. The previous Google resource choice (sebsimtech-privacy-v1) is removed when you visit because those resources are now hosted locally.

The website’s code does not include Google Analytics, Meta Pixel or advertising scripts. This does not mean that hosting infrastructure or providers’ separate services never use their own technologies, for example for security or authentication. Their practices are described in the providers’ documents linked above.

Cookies strictly necessary for transmission or to provide a service requested by the user benefit from an exemption from the consent requirement. Optional technologies that require consent should only run after it has been given. Continuing to browse does not constitute that consent.

The current banner is informational. Clicking “Got it” dismisses it and is not consent to tracking. The website has no optional analytics or advertising categories of its own. Its appearance does not depend on dismissing the notice. You can reopen the information using “Privacy settings” in the footer. The notice does not control cookies set by the hosting infrastructure or other domains. If features requiring consent are introduced in future, appropriate settings will be provided before those features are activated.

6. Affiliate links and social media

The website contains affiliate and referral links, including links to Simline.eu, iRacing and Trak Racer. These may include a SebSimTech identifier that allows the partner to attribute a referral. A purchase or registration through such a link may earn the author a commission or another reward.

When you visit a shop or social media service, its operator’s terms apply, including its cookie and referral attribution practices. Consent given there is not consent to tracking on SebSimTech. Links to YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok lead to separate services.

7. Your rights

Subject to the conditions in the GDPR, you may request access to, rectification or erasure of your data, and restriction of processing. You may object to processing based on legitimate interests. The right to data portability applies where its legal conditions are met. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of earlier processing.

Send requests to sebastian.parysz@gmail.com. You also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority, particularly in the country of your habitual residence, workplace or the alleged infringement. In Poland, this is the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO); in the United Kingdom, it is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

8. Changes to this policy

This policy will be updated when the website’s features or data processing practices change. The update date appears at the top. For any privacy questions, contact the author at the email address above.