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Privacy

What this site does and doesn't collect.

The short version

World.lu does not set any cookies of its own. There is no cookie banner because there are no cookies to consent to. There is no Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no advertising network, and no marketing tags of any kind. The site does not have a newsletter, an account system, or a comments section, so there is nothing to sign up for and no email addresses are stored.

What is loaded from third parties

Three external resources are loaded by the site:

  • Google Fonts, served from fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. Loading a font sends a standard HTTP request to Google, which means Google may log the request (IP address, user agent, referring page). The site uses Fraunces and Hanken Grotesk only. If you would rather not contact Google to render this site's typography, a font-blocking browser extension will prevent the request and the page will fall back to your system fonts.
  • Leaflet map tiles from CartoDB and OpenStreetMap, loaded only on pages that actually display a map (the homepage, place pages). The tiles are loaded only after the map element enters the viewport via IntersectionObserver — so if you never scroll to the map, no tile request is made. When the map does load, your IP address is visible to the tile providers.
  • The favicon is an inline SVG embedded in the HTML, so there is no extra request for it.

That is the entire third-party footprint. No fonts hosted by a CDN that also runs an ad network. No image optimisation services. No "share" widgets.

What the hosting layer sees

Like any web server, the host that delivers this site keeps standard access logs. Each request line typically includes the IP address, the requested URL, the referring page, the user agent string, and the timestamp. These logs are kept for security and troubleshooting — to investigate brute-force attempts, broken links, or unusual traffic patterns — and rotated according to the hosting provider's retention policy. They are not joined with any other dataset, not sold, and not exported for analysis or marketing.

Server access logs are processed under the legitimate-interest basis of the GDPR (Article 6(1)(f)). The legitimate interest is operating the site safely and being able to diagnose problems.

No accounts, no newsletter, no comments

You cannot create an account on World.lu because there is no account system. There is no newsletter signup, so no email list. There is no comments section, so no user-generated content is stored. There is no profile, no avatar, no preferences pane. The site is read-only from the visitor's side.

Email correspondence

If you email the editor (see the contact page), that email lives in the editor's mailbox. It is read by the editor only, not shared with third parties, and not used for any purpose beyond replying to you. If you ask for your message to be deleted, it will be deleted on request. Quotation in published work is never done without permission.

Your rights under GDPR

Even though the site stores almost nothing about you, the rights granted by the General Data Protection Regulation apply in full. You can:

  • Access any personal data the site holds about you.
  • Rectify any personal data that is inaccurate.
  • Erase any personal data ("the right to be forgotten").
  • Restrict the processing of your personal data.
  • Port your personal data to another controller in a machine-readable format.
  • Object to processing based on legitimate interest.

Use the contact email to invoke any of these. In practice, the only personal data the site is likely to hold about you is an email thread (if you have written in) and the standard server access log entries described above.

Data Protection Authority

The supervisory authority for data protection in Luxembourg is the Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données (CNPD), the Luxembourg DPA. If you believe your rights under GDPR have been infringed, you can lodge a complaint with the CNPD. Its website is cnpd.public.lu.

Changes to this page

If the site ever introduces a tool that requires storing more data — for example, a newsletter, an account system, or analytics — this page will be updated before the tool is introduced, not after. The change will be visible in the "last updated" date below, and the previous version remains available on request. The wider editorial process is documented on the methodology page, and the about page explains who runs the site.

Last updated: 2026-05-25.