Privacy

Short version: no cookies, no trackers, no ads. I count visits anonymously, and that’s it.

Visits

To know how many people visit the site, every page sends a tiny anonymous note to my own server. It contains only:

• the page you opened,
• the website you came from (just the domain, for example linkedin.com),
• whether you’re on a phone, tablet or computer (from the screen width),
• the time.

To count each visitor once per day, the server makes a short code from your IP address and browser, mixed with a random key that is replaced every day. The IP address itself is never stored, and because the key changes daily, nobody (including me) can recognise you from one day to the next.

No cookies are used and nothing about you is stored on your device (the only things kept there are the offline copies and, if you make one, the language choice, both described below). If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, nothing is counted at all. The numbers stay on my hosting and are deleted after 13 months.

Contact form

If you write to me, your name, email and message are sent to my mailbox so I can reply. They aren’t stored on the website and aren’t used for anything else.

Weather station

The Au ZH weather page shows data from my own station. Forecasts and snow data come from Open-Meteo, but my server asks for them: your browser never contacts them.

Language of the weather page

The weather page is shown in English, German or Italian depending on your device’s language. Your browser works this out by itself; nothing about it is sent to me or stored. If you pick a language at the bottom of that page, the choice is saved only in your own browser (its local storage, not a cookie), so the page opens in that language next time. You can clear it at any time by clearing the site’s data in your browser.

Offline copies

So that you see a proper message instead of a browser error when you have no connection, your browser keeps one small page from this site (the “No connection” page) in its storage for this site.

The weather page goes one step further, so it still opens without a connection: your browser keeps a copy of that page with the files it needs, and the last weather readings it received. When you’re offline it shows those, marked “No connection · last reading …”.

All of this is downloaded from my server like any other page, contains no information about you and sends nothing anywhere. It goes away when you clear the site’s data in your browser.

Everything else

Fonts and scripts are served from this site, with no third-party services. The site is hosted by Hostinger, whose servers keep standard technical logs for security, as described in their own privacy policy.

Who’s responsible

Francesco Pistore, Canton Zürich, Switzerland. Questions: use the contact form or LinkedIn.

Last updated 31 October 2026.