GDPR Rights at Coinage: Access, Erasure, Portability

What this page is

This page explains how to exercise your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation when you use Coinage. It states what the regulation grants, what data this site actually processes, and what a complete request looks like. It is written for readers, not lawyers, and it does not replace the regulation’s own text ^[1].

What the regulation grants

The regulation grants people rights over personal data held about them. The core rights for a reader of this site are four. Access: you can ask what data is held. Rectification: you can ask that wrong data be fixed. Erasure: you can ask that data be deleted. Portability: you can ask for a machine-readable copy of data you provided. Each right has limits, and the limits are set out in the regulation itself. The regulation’s text is the authority on those limits ^[1].

What this site processes

Coinage is a static site with no accounts. It serves built pages. It does not ask for your name, email, or any other identifier. Two kinds of data exist at all. One is standard server logs kept by the host. The other is measurement data from the single analytics script described in the privacy policy. There is no profile of you on this site. There is nothing to build one from.

How to make a request

Send the request through the contact page. A complete request says three things: who you are to the extent needed to answer, what right you are exercising, and what you want to happen. You do not need legal language. “Delete anything you hold about me” is a complete erasure request if we can act on it. There is no form to fill and no account to log into.

How requests are answered

Requests are answered within the windows the law sets. Access and portability requests get a copy of what exists. Rectification and erasure requests get a confirmation of what changed. Because the data here is logs and measurement counts, the honest answer to many requests will be short, and short is fine. If a request is refused, the refusal states the ground in the regulation that applies.

What a request cannot change

Personal data rights reach personal data. They do not reach editorial content. You cannot use an erasure request to remove a fact you dislike from a page, because the page is not data about you. If a page states something about you that is wrong, that is a correction request under the press room policy, and it is judged by the same standard as any other correction: does the source support the claim. The two paths are separate, and both are open to you.

Who interprets the rules

Where this page and the regulation differ, the regulation wins ^[1]. Where the regulation itself is disputed, the European Data Protection Board publishes the guidance that national authorities work from ^[2]. This site follows that reading, and this page is corrected when the authoritative reading changes.