Privacy Policy
Last updated: 20 September 2026.
Who we are
This site is operated by Studio Pieters. For any privacy question, or to exercise one of the rights below, contact info@studiopieters.nl.
The contact form
If you use the contact form, we process the name, email address and message you provide, in order to reply to you. Your IP address is checked briefly (a few hours) to prevent the form from being used to send bulk spam, and is not stored beyond that.
Accounts
If you create an account, we process the username, email address and password you provide. Your password is never stored in readable form, only as an irreversible hash, so we cannot see it either. You can optionally set a display name and upload a profile photo, stored as a regular media file on our own server; if you skip that, WordPress may show a default image from Gravatar.com (a service by Automattic) based on a hash of your email address, this is core WordPress behavior, not something we separately enable.
With an account, you can add guides and projects to a private favorites list and rate them. Your favorites list is visible only to you, nowhere else on the site. Ratings are counted anonymously in the published average, but which pages you personally rated is also tied to your account so you can find them again under "My ratings".
Basis: performance of the agreement created the moment you create an account yourself; for the profile photo and favorites/ratings specifically: your own, active choice to use those features.
Retention: for as long as your account exists. To have your account and everything tied to it (profile photo, favorites, ratings) deleted, email info@studiopieters.nl, we handle this within the legal one-month period.
Ratings without an account
If you rate a guide or project without logging in, a cookie records that you already voted on that specific page, so the same visitor can't vote twice. See the cookie table below.
Cookies
| Cookie | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
wordpress_logged_in_* |
Keeps you logged in, needed for your account, favorites and ratings history | Functional, necessary | Session, or up to 14 days with "Remember me" |
wordpress_sec_* |
Secures your logged-in session (only active on login/account pages) | Functional, necessary | Session, or up to 14 days with "Remember me" |
sp_rated_<page-id> |
Records that this browser already rated a specific guide or project, so it can't vote again | Functional, necessary | 1 year |
No advertising or tracking cookies are set by this site.
Embedded content
Some project write-ups embed a video via youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube's privacy-enhanced embed mode, which does not set tracking cookies until you actually press play.
Your rights
You can ask to see, correct or delete the personal data we hold about you at any time by emailing info@studiopieters.nl. We reply within the legal one-month period.