The Fine Clock

Privacy

This site uses Google Analytics 4, cookielessly, to measure visits — no cookie and no identifier stored on your device. It serves no advertising and sets no cookies of its own. There is no form on it that asks who you are. That is the whole of what there is to disclose, and this page says it plainly rather than at length.

The short version

This site uses Google Analytics 4 to measure visits, cookielessly — no analytics cookie and no identifier is stored on your device. It serves no advertising, sets no cookies and has no forms. It does not ask you for anything and it does not store anything you type — there is nothing on it that transmits what you enter. A second third-party script IS present on the preview address; we did not add it and cannot remove it, it is named below, and it sets no cookie either.

Who the controller is

The controller is the publisher of this site. Contact: [email protected].

This site does not invent a company particular. The rows marked above stay blank until the operator supplies them.

What is processed

This site loads Google Analytics 4 (GA4), Google’s measurement script, from googletagmanager.com. It runs in cookieless mode: it writes no analytics cookie and stores no identifier on your device, and there is no cross-session or cross-site recognition of you. What it sends instead is cookieless, aggregated measurement pings containing the page URL, the referrer, an approximate location derived from your IP address, and device and browser characteristics. Google processes that data as a third-party processor. It may be handled outside Ireland; where that happens, Google is required to apply an EU-recognised safeguard for the transfer. Beyond that, the only processing that occurs is what any web server must do to serve a page: your request reaches the hosting infrastructure, which handles the IP address and request metadata necessary to deliver the response and to keep the service secure and available. The legal basis for both is legitimate interests, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

There is one more script, and it is not ours. While this site sits on its preview address, the network that serves it — Cloudflare — inserts its own visit-counting script into the response, loaded from static.cloudflareinsights.com(Cloudflare Web Analytics). It is in none of the files we build: it is added to the output after our server has produced it, and nothing in this repository can call it or remove it — only the account holder can switch it off in Cloudflare’s own settings. We measured a page load in a real browser: that script sets no cookie, and the browser finishes the load with zero cookies. Cloudflare processes the request as our hosting provider.

Consent Mode signals are set to denied by default in the page head, and nothing on this site ever flips them. GA4 runs cookieless, so it never needs them to.

What is NOT processed

No advertising. No accounts. No newsletter. No profiling and no automated decision-making. No driver number, vehicle registration, licence details or any other identifier is collected — this site has no field that asks for one.

Cookies

This site sets none. Because nothing is stored on or read from your device, no consent requirement under the European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Privacy and Electronic Communications) Regulations 2011 arises, which is why there is no banner asking for it.

Your rights, and how to complain

You have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability under the GDPR. This site itself holds no personal data about you beyond the server handling described above, and the measurement described above is aggregated and carries no identifier we could use to find your records, so most of them will have nothing to act on here — but you can exercise any of them at [email protected].

If you are not satisfied, you may complain to the Data Protection Commission, the Irish supervisory authority.

Changes

Last updated 7 August 2026.

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