Privacy notice

Last updated: 18 October 2026

This notice explains what personal data Scientinel collects through scientinel.com, why, and what rights you have. We collect as little as we can: the site uses no analytics, no advertising and no tracking cookies.

Who is responsible

The controller of your personal data is Scientinel ApS, Ryegade 62, 2100 København Ø, Denmark, CVR 36010460. You can reach us about privacy at [email protected] or through the contact form.

What we collect, why, and on what basis

When you use the contact form

We receive your name, work email, organisation, the topic, sector and region you choose, and your message. We use them to answer you and to scope any work you ask about. The legal basis is taking steps at your request before a possible contract (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)) and our legitimate interest in replying to enquiries (Art. 6(1)(f)). The form is delivered to us by our form service, Formspree, Inc. (USA), which passes your message on to us by email.

We keep enquiries for 12 months after our last contact, longer only if they lead to a contract, in which case contract records are kept as Danish bookkeeping law requires.

When you sign up for email updates

We store your email address (and your name, if you give it) and when you signed up, so we can send our occasional notes. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)). Every email has an unsubscribe link, and you can withdraw consent at any time; we then delete your address. Subscriber data is held in our own publishing system (Ghost), which we run ourselves on our own servers in Copenhagen, Denmark. We have not yet sent any email updates; before we do, we will name the email delivery service here. We do not track whether you open our emails or which links you click.

When you follow us on the fediverse

If you follow @[email protected] from Mastodon or another fediverse app, our server receives your public profile and handle, and any replies you send to our posts. Fediverse replies are public by design. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in running the account you chose to interact with (Art. 6(1)(f)). You can unfollow or delete your replies at any time from your own server.

When you visit the site

Like every website, ours receives technical data with each request: your IP address, browser type, the page you asked for and the time. We use it only to deliver pages, keep the site secure and stop abuse (legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f)). The site is delivered through Cloudflare, Inc. (USA), which protects it and serves it quickly and therefore sees your IP address. Our own servers in Copenhagen record which pages are requested and when, but not your IP address.

Two parts of the page load from other services, which therefore also see your IP address:

• jsDelivr, a public content delivery network, supplies the scripts for site search and the email sign-up window.
• climate.services, our own climate data service, supplies the atmospheric CO₂ figure on the home page.

Links to other sites, such as the App Store, open those sites, whose own privacy policies apply.

Cookies and similar technologies

When you browse scientinel.com, we set no cookies and store nothing in your browser. That is why there is no cookie banner.

The one exception: if you sign in to manage your email updates, Ghost sets sign-in cookies (ghost-members-ssr and ghost-members-ssr.sig) to keep you signed in. They are strictly necessary for the sign-in you asked for, so they need no consent, and they are removed when you sign out or they expire.

Who else receives your data

We do not sell personal data or share it for marketing. The service providers above process it only on our instructions:

• Cloudflare, Inc. (USA): site delivery and security
• Formspree, Inc. (USA): contact form delivery
• jsDelivr (public CDN): search and sign-up scripts

Cloudflare is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, which the European Commission recognises as giving adequate protection, and otherwise relies on the Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses. Formspree relies on the Standard Contractual Clauses.

Your rights

You have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to its use, to receive it in a portable format, and to withdraw consent at any time without affecting earlier processing. Write to [email protected] and we will reply within one month.

You can also complain to the Danish Data Protection Agency, Datatilsynet, Carl Jacobsens Vej 35, 2500 Valby, Denmark (datatilsynet.dk).

Security

The site is served only over encrypted connections, and its administration is not reachable from the public internet.

Changes

If we change how we handle personal data, we will update this notice and the date at the top.