Privacy policy

Last updated: 20 October 2026

This policy explains which personal data is collected on maikode.com, why, and what your rights are under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Data controller

Michael Jacoby (Maikode)
Address: Request access
Contact: hello@maikode.com

Data collected

• "Start a project" form: trade, needs, requirements, budget, timeline, name, company, email, phone (optional).
• "Book a call" form: call length and topic, message, first name, last name, email, phone, availability.
• Audience measurement (only with your consent): pseudonymised browsing data via Google Analytics (pages viewed, duration, device type, approximate country). See the cookie policy.

No data is sold or used for advertising.

Purposes and legal bases

• Answering your request and preparing a possible quote: pre-contractual steps taken at your request (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)).
• Measuring traffic to improve the site: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)), which you can withdraw at any time.

Retention

Contact requests are kept for 3 years after the last exchange, then deleted. If we start working together, the necessary data is kept for as long as accounting and tax rules require (7 years in Belgium).

Recipients

Your data is processed only by Maikode. Technical processors:

• Infomaniak Network SA (Switzerland): email hosting. Switzerland benefits from a European Commission adequacy decision.
• Google Ireland Ltd: spam protection for forms (reCAPTCHA v3), loaded only when a form is sent. Technical data transmitted: IP address, browser information and page interactions. Legal basis: legitimate interest in protecting the site from abuse (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
• Google Ireland Ltd: audience measurement (Google Analytics), with possible transfers to the United States covered by the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.

Your rights

You can at any time request access to, correction or erasure of your data, restriction of processing, data portability, object to processing, and withdraw your consent. Write to hello@maikode.com; you will get an answer within one month.

You can also lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority, rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels, dataprotectionauthority.be.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS and forms are sent encrypted. Access to the requests received is limited to Maikode.