Privacy policy

Last updated: November 8, 2026

I’m Rami Sayar, the operator of ramisayar.com. This policy explains how information is handled when you visit this site, contact me, or enable optional services. For privacy questions or requests, use the contact form and mention “privacy” in your message.

Contact messages

If you use the contact form, you provide your name, email address, and message. Netlify processes and stores form submissions on my behalf. I use this information to read and respond to your enquiry and handle any related correspondence. Please include only the information needed for your message. Newsletter subscriptions are handled separately through Substack.

Hosting and technical information

Netlify hosts this site. Serving a page involves processing technical information such as your IP address, requested URL, and browser information. Netlify may keep logs to deliver, secure, and troubleshoot the service. This processing is separate from optional Google Analytics and continues when you reject optional cookies. See Netlify’s privacy notice for information about its handling of data.

Optional analytics

Google Analytics loads only after you allow analytics in Cookie settings. It helps me understand visits and how people use the site. Google processes information about page visits, interactions, and browsers or devices, and may use cookies such as _ga to distinguish visits. Advertising storage, advertising personalization, and Google signals are disabled in this site’s analytics configuration.

Read How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and the Google privacy policy for details about Google’s processing.

Optional videos

Videos from YouTube and Vimeo stay off until you allow Videos in Cookie settings. This also applies to Vimeo’s video metadata request. Direct links are available if you prefer to open a video on the provider’s own site. Allowing videos does not enable analytics or the newsletter signup form.

When an embed loads, its provider receives technical information such as your IP address and browser information. It may receive information about your interactions, read or set cookies, or associate activity with an account you hold with that provider. Their own policies apply: YouTube / Google and Vimeo.

The Substack signup form stays off until you allow Newsletter signup in Cookie settings. Allowing it does not enable analytics or videos. When it loads, Substack receives technical information such as your IP address and browser information and may use its own cookies or associate activity with your Substack account. You can use the direct signup link instead. See the Substack privacy policy.

If you subscribe to Rami’s Readings, Substack processes the information you submit to manage that subscription. As the publisher, I can access subscriber information, including your name and email address, through Substack to send and manage the newsletter you requested. Use the unsubscribe link in newsletter emails or your Substack subscription settings to stop receiving it. Enabling the signup embed does not itself subscribe you.

Cookies, preferences, and offline storage

The site remembers your separate analytics, video, and newsletter signup choices for 180 days from your latest saved choice. The preference record includes the time of that choice and the version of the consent notice. It is stored in your browser and is not sent to a consent logging server. After expiry or a change to the consent version, optional services stay off until you choose again. The saved record may remain in your browser until replaced or cleared. The site also caches visited pages, images, and site assets in your browser to support offline use. Cached content can remain until it is replaced, removed by your browser, or cleared in your browser’s site-data settings.

The theme follows your system’s light or dark setting until you choose one. Your selected light, dark, or high-contrast theme is saved in your browser and restored on later visits. It stays until you change it or clear your browser’s site data. This display preference is independent of optional analytics, videos, and newsletter signup.

Use Cookie settings to change or withdraw consent at any time. Turning analytics off disables collection by this site and clears accessible Google Analytics cookies set on this site. Turning Videos off removes video players and stops pending Vimeo metadata requests. Turning Newsletter signup off removes the Substack form without changing your video choice or cancelling an existing newsletter subscription. This does not delete data already received by a provider. Cookies already set by embedded providers can be removed through your browser settings. Blocking browser storage may mean your choices cannot be remembered between pages or visits.

How long information is kept

Contact messages may remain in Netlify and related correspondence until deleted. You can request deletion through the contact form. Google Analytics user and event data follow the retention settings in the site’s Analytics account; aggregated reports may be kept longer. Other providers apply their own retention practices as described in their privacy notices. Contact me for current retention information or a request concerning your information.

Information is used to operate and protect the site, respond to messages, understand readership when analytics is enabled, and provide embedded content when it is enabled. The providers involved are Netlify, Google, Vimeo, and Substack, as described above. Providers may process information in countries other than yours; their privacy notices describe their processing locations and applicable safeguards. Information may also need to be disclosed when required by law.

Where applicable law requires a legal basis, I rely on your consent for optional analytics, embedded content, and newsletter subscriptions, and on legitimate interests in operating and securing this site and responding to messages for the corresponding essential processing.

Your choices and privacy requests

Depending on the law that applies to you, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of your personal information, or to object to or restrict its processing. You can withdraw consent for optional services through Cookie settings. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that has already taken place. You may also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

To ask about these rights or make a request, use the contact form. Include enough information to identify the relevant message or subscription. I may need to verify your identity before acting on a request. For information held by a provider under its own account or services, its privacy notice also explains how to contact it directly.

Changes to this policy

Changes will appear on this page with an updated date. If the site adds a new optional use that requires consent, you will be asked before it loads.