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
Who the controller is
The controller is the publisher of this site. Contact: info@thefineclock.com.
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
On an ordinary visit this site sets none. Because nothing about you is stored on your device then, 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. A read does take place on every page view, and it is named rather than passed over: our own measurement code looks for the gr_int flag that keeps our testing out of the figures. It is a single switch rather than an identifier, it is written only after a visit with ?internal=1 appended, and the cookies page describes it in full.
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 info@thefineclock.com.
If you are not satisfied, you may complain to the Data Protection Commission, the Irish supervisory authority.
Changes
Last updated 10 August 2026.