Privacy
This site does not track you.
No cookies, no analytics, no advertising pixels and no third-party requests. This page explains exactly what that means, and what little data still exists.
Last updated 5 August 2026.
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Cookies
This site sets no cookies. It writes nothing to local storage, session storage or IndexedDB, and it registers no service worker. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to. Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive requires consent for storing or reading information on your device, and this site does neither.
If analytics are ever added, that changes, and a real opt-in banner would be required before anything loads.
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Third parties
Almost nothing. Fonts, images, video, stylesheets and scripts are all served from this domain. The typeface is self-hosted specifically so that your IP address is not sent to a font provider.
There is one exception. The Speaking page shows a short background clip of a recorded conversation, loaded from youtube-nocookie.com. On a desktop browser that request tells Google your IP address and browser. It sets no advertising cookie, and it is not loaded at all on mobile, on a metered connection, or when your system asks for reduced motion. Every other page contacts nobody.
Links to LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Forbes, Meta and the Institute for Applied AI are ordinary links. Nothing is requested from those services until you choose to click, at which point their own privacy policies apply.
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What still gets recorded
Two things, neither of which any website can avoid.
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Server logs
This site is hosted by Vercel Inc., which keeps standard access logs: IP address, page requested, timestamp, browser user agent and referrer. They exist to serve pages, keep the site available and block abuse. The legal basis is legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Vercel acts as a processor, and its own privacy notice covers how long it keeps them.
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Email you choose to send
There is no contact form on this site. Every contact link opens your own email client. If you write, your message and address are used to reply to you, under Article 6(1)(b) or (f) GDPR, and kept only as long as the correspondence is useful.
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Your rights
In the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, the GDPR gives you the right to access your data, correct it, have it erased, restrict or object to its processing, and receive it in a portable form. You may also complain to your national data protection authority.
In California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah and the other United States states with comprehensive privacy laws, the practical answer is the same: no personal information is sold, shared or used for targeted advertising, because none is collected beyond the server logs above. A Global Privacy Control signal has nothing here to act on. This site does not meet the revenue or volume thresholds that make those laws binding, and it is written to their standard anyway.
To exercise any right, or simply to ask what is held, write to the address below.
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Controller and contact
Dr. Irina Raicu is the data controller for this website.
If this notice changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it.