Privacy
Short version: no accounts, no ads, no profiles. Your settings and likes stay in your browser; likes are counted anonymously. Google Analytics runs only if you allow it.
Controller
Büro Bloock Design GmbH, Dagobertstraße 28, 50668 Köln, Germany · hello@aizeitgeist.tv. See the imprint.
Hosting and server logs
This site is hosted on a server operated by Hetzner Online GmbH, Gunzenhausen, Germany. When you open a page, the web server records the requested address, time, HTTP status, the referring page, your browser type and your IP address in a log file. We use these logs only to keep the site running securely and to find errors. Logs are deleted after 14 days at the latest. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) f GDPR, our legitimate interest in operating the site.
Settings and likes in your browser
Theme, speed, quote set, transition style, your consent choice, the quotes you like, the date of the last update you have seen (for the green dot on the tab icon) and the random identifier for the live count are stored in your browser's localStorage under keys beginning with aiz-. This data stays on your device. You can delete it any time in your browser settings; the "Change your choice" link below removes only the analytics consent.
Like counts
When you like or unlike a quote, your browser sends the quote's ID and a plus or minus one to our server, which keeps one number per quote. That number is shown to everyone. We store nothing about you with it: no account, no cookie, no identifier. To keep the count honest, the server holds a salted hash of your IP address and the quote ID in memory for 24 hours, so the same connection counts once per quote per day; the hash is never written to disk and the salt changes daily. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) f GDPR, our legitimate interest in a count that cannot be gamed by a single visitor.
People on the wall right now
While the page is open and visible, your browser sends a short signal to our server every 15 seconds, without any content. When you switch to another tab or app, or leave the page, it sends one more signal and is no longer counted. The signal carries a random identifier for your browser, created on your device and kept in localStorage (aiz-device), so that two devices on the same network count as two and several tabs count as one. The server answers with the number of browsers that sent such a signal in the last 40 seconds, and the page shows it. For this, the server holds the identifier and a hash of your IP address with a salt that changes daily, in memory only and for 40 seconds; nothing is written to disk, and the IP address itself is never stored. You can close the note; it comes back the next time you load the page, nothing is stored for this.
Google Analytics
If you agree in the note at the bottom of the start page, we use Google Analytics 4, a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. It counts visits and tells us which quotes are opened, liked or shared, so we can see what travels. Until you agree, no Google script is loaded and no cookie is set. With your consent, Google sets cookies (_ga, _ga_*, lifetime up to 2 years) and processes your shortened IP address, device and browser data, pages viewed and the events named above. Google may transfer data to the USA; Google LLC is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. Legal basis: your consent, Art. 6 (1) a GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG. You can withdraw it at any time: change your choice. More in Google's privacy policy.
Sharing
The share buttons are plain links. Nothing is loaded from X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Mastodon, WhatsApp or your mail app until you click one of them; from then on the respective service's privacy policy applies. The wallpaper download is rendered in your browser.
Fonts and external content
The typeface is served from this site. No fonts, scripts or images are loaded from third parties, except Google Analytics after your consent.
Daily by mail
If you subscribe to the Daily by mail, we store your e-mail address with our mailing service Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, 106 boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris, France), which processes it on our behalf under a data processing agreement. We use it only to send you one mail a day with the new quotes.
Subscribing works with double opt-in: you first get a mail with a confirmation link, and only after you click it do you receive the Daily. We keep the time of your sign-up and confirmation as proof of your consent. Brevo can record whether a mail was opened and which links were clicked; we look at these numbers only in total, to see whether the Daily is read.
You can unsubscribe at any time with the link at the bottom of every mail. Your address is then removed from the list. Legal basis: your consent, Art. 6 (1) a GDPR.
If you write to us, we keep your message as long as needed to answer it and for as long as legal retention periods require. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) b or f GDPR.
Your rights
You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and to object to processing based on Art. 6 (1) f GDPR. You may withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future. You can complain to a supervisory authority; responsible for us is the Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kavalleriestraße 2–4, 40213 Düsseldorf.
Last updated 20 October 2026.