Privacy
Last updated 4 August 2026.
This page explains what happens to information about you when you read this blog. It is short because the site does very little with your data — but it is precise about the parts that are not nothing.
The short version
This is a blog. There is nothing to sign up for, no account to create, no form to fill in and no comment box. We do not ask you for your name, your email address or anything else about you, and we have no way to contact you.
Three things happen:
- Our host records ordinary technical information every time a page is served, and produces visitor statistics from it. This does not involve cookies and happens on every visit.
- If you accept analytics cookies, we also count visits in more detail, so we know which guides are useful. If you decline, no analytics cookies are set and no data reaches Google.
- The typefaces the site uses are served from our own domain, so reading a page does not send your details to a font provider.
Until you make a choice, your browser contacts no other company on our behalf and nothing whatsoever is stored on your device.
We do not sell anything about you, we do not share it for advertising, and there is no third-party advertising on this site.
Who is responsible
The data controller for this site is Bani Younes ENK, organisation number 934 103 424, Oslo, Norway.
You can reach us at privacy@muntligb1.com. That is the same address as muntligb1.com, because the same controller is behind both.
What we collect, and why
When you simply read a page
Serving a web page requires a server, and the server keeps a log. Those logs contain your IP address, the page you asked for, the time, your browser and operating system, and the page you arrived from. This happens whether or not you accept cookies, because without it the site cannot be delivered or kept secure.
Our host, Netlify, also turns those logs into visitor statistics for us: how many people visited, which pages they read, which country they came from, and which site referred them. This is worked out at the server, not in your browser. It sets no cookies, stores nothing on your device, and cannot follow you to any other website.
We rely on legitimate interest for both (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)) — delivering the site, keeping it available and secure, and understanding at a coarse level which guides are worth writing more of. We do not use any of it to build a profile of you or to identify you as a person, and you can object to it at any time by writing to us.
If you accept analytics cookies
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand readership in more detail than server logs allow.
Worth stating plainly rather than burying: it sets a client ID — a randomly generated identifier stored in your browser that lets Google recognise the same browser across visits. That identifier is what makes this tracking rather than simple counting. Alongside it, Google receives your approximate location — which for this property is resolved to city level, not just country — your device and browser type, which pages you viewed, and how you arrived.
This only happens if you actively accept. Analytics is off until you do, the script is not loaded and no data is sent. Declining costs you nothing; the site works identically either way.
The legal basis is your consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a), and the cookie rule in the Norwegian Electronic Communications Act).
Cookies, and changing your mind
| Purpose | Set without consent? |
|---|---|
| Making the site work | No cookies are needed |
| Remembering your consent choice | Stored in your browser the moment you choose, not before |
| Analytics | Only if you accept |
Before you make a choice, this site stores nothing on your device at all — no cookies, no other storage.
You can change your choice at any time using the cookie settings link in the footer of every page. Withdrawing takes the same single click that accepting did.
If you accepted earlier and then switch to Reject, the analytics cookies are deleted from your browser at that moment. We do not simply stop collecting and leave them sitting there.
You can also clear cookies in your browser, or block them entirely, and nothing on this site will break.
Where the information goes
We use two providers who process data on our behalf. Both are in the United States, so some information is transferred outside the EEA.
| Who | What they do | Safeguard for the transfer |
|---|---|---|
| Netlify, Inc. | Hosting, server logs, visitor statistics | EU–US Data Privacy Framework (certified, including the UK Extension and the Swiss–US framework) |
| Google LLC | Analytics, only with your consent | EU–US Data Privacy Framework (certified, including the UK Extension and the Swiss–US framework) |
Both participations were checked against the official Data Privacy Framework list at dataprivacyframework.gov. If either ever ceases to participate we will move that transfer to standard contractual clauses and say so here. Where standard contractual clauses apply, you can ask us for a copy by writing to privacy@muntligb1.com.
We do not share your information with anyone else, and we do not sell it.
How long it is kept
- Server logs and visitor statistics: Netlify does not publish a fixed retention period for these. They are kept for as long as they are needed to deliver and secure the site, and no longer.
- Analytics event data: 2 months.
- Analytics user data: 14 months, reset each time the same browser returns.
- Your consent choice: stored in your own browser until you clear it or change it.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you can ask us to tell you what we hold about you, correct it, delete it, restrict how we use it, or object to us using it. You can also ask for a copy in a portable format, and where we rely on consent you can withdraw it at any time.
In practice we hold very little that could be linked to you, and for most readers the honest answer to "what do you have about me?" is a line in a server log. Ask anyway if you want to — write to privacy@muntligb1.com and we will respond within one month.
If you are unhappy
You can complain to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, Datatilsynet, at datatilsynet.no. You can complain to them directly; you do not have to come to us first, though we would rather have the chance to put something right.
Changes
If we change what we collect, we will update this page and change the date at the top. If the change is significant, we will say what changed rather than quietly replacing the text.