Who is responsible for the website
The website operator responsible for Data Center Scope is identified in the Legal Notice.
Privacy and editorial enquiries may be sent to Adam Williams at [email protected].
Information that may be processed
Technical request data
Hosting, content-delivery and security infrastructure may process technical information such as IP address, request time, requested URL, browser or device information and security-related request data.
Information you send by email
If you contact Data Center Scope, the information contained in your message and the contact details you provide may be processed to respond to the enquiry, investigate a correction or maintain the relevant correspondence.
Analytics and advertising
If analytics or advertising technologies are enabled, they may process identifiers, device information, approximate location, interaction information or cookie data in accordance with the applicable consent requirements and the provider's own privacy documentation.
Non-essential technologies requiring consent should not be activated for a visitor where applicable until the required consent has been obtained.
Purposes
Personal information may be processed to operate and secure the website, respond to communications, investigate abuse or technical problems, measure site performance where lawfully enabled, comply with legal obligations and administer advertising where applicable.
Legal bases
Depending on the activity, processing may rely on legitimate interests in operating and protecting the website, steps requested by a user, compliance with legal obligations, or consent where consent is required for a particular technology.
Service providers
Personal information may be processed by infrastructure, hosting, security, email, analytics or advertising service providers when those services are used to operate Data Center Scope.
Providers process information under their own contractual and legal arrangements and may operate infrastructure in more than one country.
International transfers
Where a service provider processes personal information outside the European Economic Area, the applicable provider arrangement should rely on a lawful transfer mechanism where required.
Retention
Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, security and operational requirements, resolution of correspondence, or applicable legal obligations.
Your rights
Where applicable, individuals may request access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability or objection to processing and may withdraw consent where processing depends on consent.
Requests can be sent to [email protected].
Individuals in Spain or otherwise entitled to do so may also lodge a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency.
Children
Data Center Scope is an infrastructure research publication and is not directed at children.
Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated when the website introduces new services, providers, analytics, advertising systems or other processing activities.
Data Center Scope does not require a reader account
The publication can currently be read without creating a user account. Data Center Scope therefore does not require visitors to provide a profile, username or password simply to access ordinary research pages and calculators.
Where information can come from
Personal information may come directly from a reader who sends an email, automatically from technical requests required to deliver or secure the website, or from analytics and advertising services when those services are lawfully enabled.
The type of information processed depends on the interaction. Reading a static article does not involve the same information as sending an email correction request or interacting with a consented advertising service.
Technical and security logs
Hosting, DNS, content-delivery and security services can process information needed to route requests and identify abuse. This may include IP address, request URL, timestamps, browser characteristics, network information and security signals. Such information may be retained for operational, diagnostic or security purposes according to the relevant provider configuration and legitimate requirements.
Email correspondence
When a reader contacts Adam Williams, the message may contain the sender's name, email address and whatever information the sender chooses to provide. Correspondence may be retained while the enquiry, correction or editorial matter is being handled and afterward where reasonably necessary to preserve the context of that work.
Readers should not send unnecessary sensitive information, credentials or confidential third-party data through ordinary email.
Advertising and measurement choices
Analytics and advertising technologies can involve additional identifiers or interaction data. Where applicable law requires consent for those purposes, the relevant non-essential technology should be conditioned on that choice.
More specific information about browser storage and similar technologies is provided in the Cookie Policy.
Data minimization
Data Center Scope aims to process only the information reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose. The website is designed primarily as a public research publication rather than as a service requiring extensive personal profiles.
Security
Reasonable technical and organizational measures should be used to protect the website and the information handled through its services. No internet transmission or storage system can, however, be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Requests and verification
A request concerning personal information may require sufficient information to identify the relevant correspondence or data and, where appropriate, to verify that the requester is entitled to make the request. Verification should not require collecting information that is disproportionate to the request.
Google advertising services
Data Center Scope does not currently require Google advertising technologies in order to access its research. If Google AdSense or another Google advertising service is enabled in the future, Google and participating advertising partners may process information associated with the delivery, security and measurement of advertising.
Depending on the service and configuration, this may include cookies, IP addresses, browser or device identifiers and information about interactions with advertisements. These signals may be used for ad delivery, measurement, frequency management, aggregated reporting and fraud or abuse prevention.
Personalized and non-personalized advertising
Advertising may be personalized where permitted by applicable law and by the visitor's consent choices. Personalized advertising may use information about interests or previous activity to select more relevant advertisements.
Non-personalized advertising does not use a profile of previous activity to select an advertisement, but cookies or similar identifiers may still be used for functions including frequency capping, reporting, security and fraud prevention.
Consent and advertising choices
Where applicable law requires consent, Data Center Scope will not activate non-essential Google advertising technologies that depend on that consent until the relevant choice has been obtained.
If Google advertising is introduced in jurisdictions where Google requires a certified consent management platform, Data Center Scope will implement the applicable consent-management requirements before activating the relevant advertising services.
Visitors can review and manage advertising personalization through Google Ads Settings.