Privacy
Last updated 12 November 2026
The Eindhoven Student Daily wants to know which articles are read, without following you around. This page explains what we measure on esdaily.nl and in our apps, and what we don't.
In short
- No cookies, no local storage and no device identifiers for readers. You won't see a cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to.
- No advertising, no third-party trackers, no social media buttons that load code from elsewhere. Our fonts are served from our own server.
- We count visits ourselves, on our own servers in the EU, in a way that doesn't let us recognise you from one day to the next.
What we measure
When you open a page, our own statistics record which page it was, where you came from (only the website's name, such as google.com, or a campaign name in the link), whether you use a phone, tablet or computer, and whether you use the website or one of our apps. While you read we note, every 15 seconds, how long you have been actively reading and how far you scrolled. We also count clicks on the main page, the share button and links to other websites.
To count how many different people visit on a day, our server combines your IP address and your browser's user agent with a random key that changes every day, and keeps only the scrambled result (a hash). The key is deleted at the end of the day, after which nobody, including us, can link that hash to you or to your visits on other days. Your IP address is only used for this in memory and is never stored.
The detailed statistics are kept for about three months (at most four) and then deleted. What we keep after that are totals, such as the number of readers of an article per month, which contain nothing about individual readers.
Images and video
Photos and videos are delivered by our content delivery network, Bunny (BunnyWay d.o.o., Slovenia, EU), which handles your IP address to send you the files. Bunny processes it on our behalf and keeps its access logs anonymised.
Where it runs
The site, the apps' server and the statistics run on servers we rent from Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany. Backups are encrypted and stored with Hetzner as well. No data leaves the European Union.
Editors and contributors
People who log in to our editorial system get cookies there that keep them logged in. Logging in also sets a cookie on esdaily.nl so that the editors' own reading isn't counted in the statistics. Readers never get these cookies.
Your rights and questions
Because our statistics can't be traced back to you, we can't look up, correct or delete "your" data in them. For any question about privacy at the Eindhoven Student Daily, or to file a complaint, email privacy@collegiumnovum.eu. You can also complain to the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens).