Privacy Policy
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The short version
- No accounts, forms, comments, newsletter or payments: we don't ask you for any data.
- The server keeps technical logs, such as your IP address, and deletes them after 14 days.
- We don't use analytics. The Radar saves your preferences only in your browser.
- Ads are served by Google AdSense, which does use cookies; you can turn off personalized ads.
- YouTube videos only load if you tap play; from that moment on, YouTube receives data about your visit and may use cookies.
- We don't sell your data. For any question or request: contactme@millaxmilla.com.
Who is responsible
Milla x Milla (millaxmilla.com) is a personal website about motorcycling, not a company. It's written and run by its author from California, United States, who is responsible for the data described here. For any privacy matter, write to us at contactme@millaxmilla.com with the subject “Privacy.”
What data we collect
When you visit the site
Like any web server, ours writes each visit to a technical log: your IP address, the date and time, the page you requested, the page you came from (if your browser shares it), your browser and operating system, and whether the request worked. We use it only to keep the site online, find errors and stop abuse. The logs rotate every day and delete themselves after 14 days. The server is in the U.S.
If you write to us
If you send us an email, we receive your address and whatever you tell us. We use it only to reply and don't share it with anyone. Our email runs on Google Workspace. If you message us on Instagram or YouTube, those messages are also covered by each platform's policies.
What we don't do
The site has no user accounts, comments, forms, newsletter or payments. We don't ask for your name, phone number or address, and we don't buy data from anyone.
Cookies and storage in your browser
Milla x Milla doesn't set its own cookies or use analytics or tracking tools. Any cookies you
may find come from Google: the ad cookies its code can store under this site's name (for
example, __gads, __gpi and __eoi), and, only if you tap
play on a video, YouTube's. They're explained under
Google advertising and YouTube videos.
The Radar (the Radar page and its card on the home page) remembers three
preferences using your browser's local storage (localStorage). That data stays on
your device: it's never sent to our server or to anyone else.
| Key | What it saves | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|
mxm-radar-unidad | Whether you prefer °F or °C. | Until you clear the site's data. |
mxm-radar-ultima-moto | The last illustration the Radar card showed, so it doesn't repeat on your next visit. | Until you clear the site's data. |
mxm-radar-lugar | Only if you tap “Use my location”: the city name, the coordinates rounded to 3 decimal places, the time zone and the NWS forecast grid. | Until you tap “Back to Los Angeles” or clear the site's data. |
You can delete cookies and this data whenever you want from your browser's settings, under site data or history.
Third-party services
Some parts of the site are loaded by your browser directly from third-party servers. When that happens, those services receive your IP address and the usual technical data of any web visit, and handle it under their own policies:
- Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com): some of the site's typefaces. Google explains what it logs in its privacy FAQ.
- U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) (api.weather.gov and opengeo.ncep.noaa.gov): the Radar's forecast, alerts and radar imagery. NWS privacy policy.
- OpenFreeMap (tiles.openfreemap.org): the Radar's base map, built with OpenStreetMap data. According to its policy, it doesn't keep IP addresses in its logs.
- Google AdSense: the ads, explained below.
- YouTube: the videos, only if you tap play; explained below.
The Instagram and YouTube icons are plain links: those platforms receive nothing about your visit until you click. The same goes for links to other sites inside the articles; once you leave Milla x Milla, the policy of the site you land on applies.
Google advertising
To keep the site running, we show ads from Google AdSense. About those ads:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site or to other websites.
- Google's advertising cookies let Google and its partners serve you ads based on your visits to this site and to other sites on the internet.
- Besides Google, other vendors and ad networks may use cookies to serve ads here. Google publishes the list of certified vendors.
You can turn off personalized advertising in Google's Ads Settings. For the other vendors that take part in those programs, you can do it at aboutads.info (U.S.) or at youronlinechoices.eu (Europe). If you turn it off, you'll still see ads, just not ones based on your interests.
Learn more: how Google uses information from sites that use its services and how Google uses cookies in advertising.
If you visit from Europe, the UK or Switzerland
Before using advertising cookies, we ask for your permission with a notice from a Google-certified consent management platform. You can change your choice at any time from the privacy link that notice leaves on the page.
California and other U.S. states
We don't sell your personal data for money. Some state laws, such as California's, may consider using cookies for personalized advertising to be “sharing” data. If you don't want that, turn off personalized ads as explained above. If you have questions or want to request it in writing, email us with the subject “Do Not Sell or Share.”
YouTube videos
The site's videos are published on YouTube, and we show them with the YouTube player, which is part of the YouTube API Services. So YouTube doesn't learn about your visit unless you ask for it, the player doesn't load with the page: first you see a still image of the video, served from our own server. Until you tap play, YouTube receives nothing.
When you tap play, your browser loads the player from YouTube's servers (youtube-nocookie.com and other Google domains). From that moment on, YouTube receives your IP address, the page the video is on and your browser's technical data, and it may store or read cookies or similar data in your browser. According to YouTube, it uses them, among other things, to show the video, check whether it can be played, adjust the player and prevent fraud and abuse.
We use YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode: according to Google, what you watch here isn't used to personalize what YouTube shows you or the ads you see outside this site, and if the video carries ads, they aren't personalized. We don't receive that data or ask for access to your Google account. YouTube handles it under the Google Privacy Policy, and when you play a video the YouTube Terms of Service also apply.
Your location in the Radar
The Radar only uses your location if you tap “Use my location” and accept the permission your browser asks for. The coordinates are rounded to 3 decimal places (about 100 meters) and your browser sends them straight to the NWS to request the forecast and alerts for that point: they never go through our server. They're saved in your browser, as explained above, until you tap “Back to Los Angeles” or clear the site's data. If you don't give permission, the Radar shows the Los Angeles forecast.
Your rights
Wherever you live, you can ask us what data of yours we have, and ask us to correct it, delete it or stop using it. Write to us at contactme@millaxmilla.com and we'll reply within 20 business days at most. We'll only ask for the minimum needed to confirm the request is yours (for example, that you write from the same email address), and we won't treat you differently for exercising your rights. Almost everything we keep is technical logs that delete themselves after 14 days; if you give us the date of your visit and your IP address, we can look for them.
California
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA, as amended by the CPRA) gives you the right to know, delete and correct your data, and to opt out of its sale or sharing. In the last 12 months we only collected identifiers (the IP address in the logs and your email, if you wrote to us) and internet activity information (the pages you visited); Google and its partners collect their own for ads, and YouTube collects its own if you play a video, as explained above. Learn more on the California Attorney General's page.
Mexico
You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition (ARCO rights) by writing to the same email address.
European Economic Area, UK and Switzerland
You also have the right to data portability and to restrict how your data is used, and to file a complaint with the data protection authority in your country (list of authorities). We use your data on these legal bases: our legitimate interest for the server logs and for answering your messages, and your consent for advertising cookies, which you can withdraw at any time. The YouTube player only loads when you ask for it by tapping play.
Children
Milla x Milla is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child has sent us personal data, write to us and we'll delete it.
Security and where the data is stored
The site only works over an encrypted connection (HTTPS): if you come in over http, the server sends you to https. Access to the server is restricted. No system is foolproof, which is why we keep as little as possible for as short a time as possible. The server is in the U.S.: if you visit from another country, the technical logs are processed there.
“Do Not Track” signals
There's no common standard for how to respond to browsers' “Do Not Track” signal. Since we don't track anyone across sites, we don't change anything when we receive it; for ads, use the options under Google advertising.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. If the change is significant (for example, if we start using analytics), we'll also announce it on the site.
Contact
For any question about this policy, write to us at contactme@millaxmilla.com with the subject “Privacy.” The rules for using the site are in the Terms of Use.