Privacy
Last updated: Sep 28, 2026
This website is a personal portfolio. It has no accounts or newsletter, and it does not use advertising or tracking cookies. This page explains which personal data is still processed when you visit it, and why.
Who is responsible
Pieter-Jan Scheir, Aalter, Belgium, is the controller for this website. For any question about your data, email pieterjan@scheir.eu.
Hosting
The site is hosted by Vercel. To deliver pages and keep the service secure, Vercel processes technical data such as your IP address, browser and the pages requested, and keeps it in server logs for a limited time set by Vercel. This is based on legitimate interest (running a secure website).
Visitor statistics
Vercel Web Analytics counts page views to show which pages are visited. For each view, Vercel receives the page address without its query string, the page you came from, your device type, browser and operating system, and your country. The country is derived from your IP address, which itself is not stored. Visitors are told apart by a hash that changes every day, so you are not followed from one day to the next, and no cookies are used. Only aggregated numbers are reported. This is based on legitimate interest (understanding how the site is used).
Google Maps
The map on the contact page only loads with your consent: after you choose “Accept” in the cookie banner or click “Allow Google Maps” on the map. From then on it loads with the contact page, and Google receives your IP address and may set cookies, under Google’s privacy policy. This is based on your consent. If you withdraw it, the map no longer loads, but cookies Google already set stay until you delete them in your browser settings.
Your cookie choice
On your first visit, a banner asks whether the Google Map may load. Accepting and declining are equally easy, and closing the banner without choosing counts as no consent. Declining never blocks any part of the site: the contact page then offers a link to open the location in Google Maps instead. Your choice and its date are kept in your browser’s local storage (cookie-consent), not in a cookie, and are not sent to me. You can change or withdraw it at any time with “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page.
Contacting me
When you email, call or book a meeting through Cal.com, I use the details you share only to answer and follow up on your request, based on your request and my legitimate interest in replying, and I delete them when they are no longer needed. My email and phone providers process these messages to deliver them; Cal.com processes bookings under its own privacy policy.
Contact form
When you send a message with the contact form, your name, email address and message are emailed to me through Resend (Resend, Inc., USA), which processes them on my behalf under a data processing agreement. The website itself does not store them; the message is kept in my inbox only as long as needed to handle your request. This is based on taking steps at your request and my legitimate interest in answering you. To limit abuse, your IP address is held briefly in the server’s memory and is not stored.
Data stored in your browser
When you read the site in a language other than your browser’s, for example after choosing one in the language menu, the site sets a NEXT_LOCALE cookie with that language, so the site’s main address sends you back to it. It is deleted when you close your browser. Your light, dark or system theme setting (theme), whether you have closed or followed the suggestion to read a page in your browser’s language (language-suggestion) and your cookie choice (cookie-consent) are kept in your browser’s local storage. None of this is used for tracking or shared with anyone.
Transfers outside the EU
Vercel, Google, Resend and Cal.com are based in the United States. Where your data reaches them, the transfer relies on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or on the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you can ask for access to, correction or deletion of your data, restrict or object to its processing, ask for a copy (data portability) and withdraw any consent you have given at any time. Email pieterjan@scheir.eu. You can also file a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority (dataprotectionauthority.be).