Privacy policy

Last updated: October 20, 2026

Summary

• You can browse Happylancing Directory without an account. We set no tracking or advertising cookies, and our visitor statistics are cookieless.
• We only collect personal data you give us (newsletter, account, forms) or that is needed to run the site securely.
• We do not sell or share personal data, and we do not use it for targeted advertising.
• Sponsored placements are served without any profile of you.

Who is responsible

The controller under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

Email: support@happylancing.com. Full details are in the Impressum.

What we process, why, and for how long

Our fonts are bundled with the site and served from our own domain, so loading a page makes no request to Google or other font providers. Classification of repositories uses only public repository content and makes no decisions about people. We do not use automated decision-making or profiling within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR.

Cookies and local storage

We use only what is strictly necessary: a sign-in cookie for signed-in users, short-lived cookies that protect the GitHub sign-in, and a local-storage entry that remembers your light or dark theme if you choose one. These are exempt from consent under § 25 (2) No. 2 TDDDG and Art. 5 (3) of the ePrivacy Directive, so there is no cookie banner. The full list is on the cookie page.

Service providers and recipients

We use these processors, bound by data processing agreements under Art. 28 GDPR. We do not pass personal data to anyone else unless the law requires it.

Transfers outside the EU

Several providers are based in the United States. Where a provider is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, the transfer relies on the European Commission adequacy decision of July 10, 2023 (Art. 45 GDPR). Otherwise it relies on the Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the Commission (Art. 46 (2) (c) GDPR) with supplementary measures. You can ask us for a copy of the safeguards.

Your rights under the GDPR

You have the right to:

• access the personal data we hold about you (Art. 15),
• have it corrected (Art. 16) or deleted (Art. 17),
• restrict its processing (Art. 18),
• receive it in a portable format (Art. 20),
• withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future (Art. 7 (3)),
• lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77), in particular in the EU member state where you live or work.

Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR). Where we process your data on the basis of legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR), you can object at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation. We then stop unless we can show compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, or the processing is needed for legal claims.

To exercise any right, email support@happylancing.com or use the contact form. We answer within one month.

Providing personal data is neither a legal nor a contractual requirement. Without an email address we cannot send the newsletter or reply to you, and without GitHub sign-in you cannot save repositories. Everything else works without giving us any data.

Notice for US residents

This section supplements the policy above for residents of California and other US states with consumer privacy laws (including Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon and others). In the last 12 months we collected these categories of personal information, from the sources and for the purposes described above:

• Identifiers: email address, name, GitHub account ID and username, hashed IP address.
• Commercial information: subscription status, only when paid plans are offered.
• Internet or network activity: server logs and cookieless visitor statistics.
• Professional information: company name, if you send an advertising inquiry.

We do not sell or share personal information, as those terms are defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and we have not done so in the last 12 months. We do not use personal information for targeted advertising or profiling, and we do not collect sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you. Because there is nothing to opt out of, we treat a Global Privacy Control signal as already honored. We do not knowingly sell or share data of consumers under 16.

Depending on your state, you have the right to know what personal information we collect, use and disclose; to access it in a portable format; to correct it; to delete it; and not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. Submit a request by email or through the contact form. We verify requests by confirming control of the email address involved. You can use an authorized agent, who must show your signed permission. If we decline your request, you can appeal by replying to our decision; we answer appeals within 60 days, and if you disagree you can contact your state attorney general.

California Shine the Light. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

Do Not Track. We do not track visitors across third-party websites, so we treat every visitor the same whether or not the browser sends a Do Not Track signal.

Children

Happylancing Directory is a directory for software developers and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16, or from children under 13 as defined by the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). If you believe a child has given us personal data, contact us and we will delete it.

Security

All traffic is encrypted with TLS. Confirmation tokens are stored only as hashes, IP addresses are stored only as keyed hashes, unsubscribe links are signed, and access to the admin area is checked against our database on every request.

Changes to this policy

We update this policy when our processing changes. The date at the top shows the latest version. If a change requires your consent, we will ask for it.