versusindex
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Privacy Policy

This page explains which personal data is processed when you visit versusindex.com, why, and what your rights are.

Who is responsible

VersusIndex, based in the Netherlands, is responsible for the processing described here. For all privacy questions: contact@versusindex.com.

In short

  • You can use VersusIndex without an account. There are no forms that send data to us and no newsletter.
  • We do not set cookies ourselves and use no cookies or other identifiers to track you or to show advertising. The site shows no ad networks or banner ads; some country versions do contain marked affiliate links (see below).
  • Visitor statistics are cookieless (Cloudflare Web Analytics). We only see totals, never individual visitors.

Hosting and security (Cloudflare)

The site is delivered by Cloudflare, Inc. (hosting, content delivery network and protection against attacks). For every request Cloudflare necessarily processes technical data such as your IP address, the requested URL, the time, your browser’s user agent and the referring page. This is needed to deliver the page and to keep the site secure (legitimate interest, GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)). Cloudflare may set a strictly necessary security cookie, for example when a browser has to pass a bot check. We keep no server logs of our own; in Cloudflare’s dashboard we only see aggregated figures (requests per page, country and type of crawler), not individual IP addresses.

Cloudflare acts as our processor under its data processing agreement. Data may also be processed outside the EEA and the UK, including in the United States; Cloudflare bases such transfers on its certification under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and on the Standard Contractual Clauses in that agreement.

Visitor statistics (Cloudflare Web Analytics)

Cloudflare adds a small script (from static.cloudflareinsights.com) to our pages that measures page views, loading times, the referring site, country and device type. According to Cloudflare it uses no cookies or local storage and does not fingerprint visitors. We use the totals to see which pages are useful (legitimate interest, GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)).

Choosing your country version

On versusindex.com/ we send you to a suitable country version based on the country Cloudflare derives from your IP address and on your browser language. When you open the country menu, your browser asks Cloudflare (/cdn-cgi/trace) for your country so it can be listed first. This happens per request; we do not store it.

Product photos are copies of official manufacturer images stored on our own servers. Apart from the Cloudflare script mentioned above, the site loads no images, fonts or scripts from third parties. Links to manufacturers, sources and shops take you to other websites with their own privacy policies.

Some country versions contain affiliate links, marked as advertising, for example via Awin, Daisycon or directly with a partner. If you click such a link, you pass through the servers of the network or partner, which may set cookies under their own responsibility to attribute a purchase to us. We only pass on a reference to the page that contained the link; we receive no names or contact details of buyers.

Email

If you email us, we use your email address and message only to reply and, where relevant, to correct our data.

Admin area

The admin area is only for the site’s administrator, who signs in with a Google account. No Google services are loaded on the public pages.

Your rights

Under the GDPR (and comparable laws such as the UK GDPR) you have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability, and the right to object to processing based on legitimate interest. To exercise them, email contact@versusindex.com. Because we cannot link statistics or Cloudflare data to a person, we may ask you for details that help us find the data concerned. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the ICO in the UK, the Data Protection Commission in Ireland or the IDPC in Malta.

Changes

We update this page when the site changes; the date at the bottom shows the current version.