Privacy policy

What this policy covers

This policy explains how this website handles your data. It is a purely static site hosted on GitHub Pages, with no application server, no database and no user accounts. Once you follow a link off this site (a journal DOI, a publisher page, a scholarly profile, GitHub), the policy that applies is theirs, not this one.

What this site does not do

The following are common elsewhere and are absent here. You can verify this: the source code is public and the generated pages can be inspected directly.

• No advertising and no ad trackers.
• No Google Analytics or any other third-party analytics.
• The site itself sets no cookies.
• No visitor profiling, and no selling or sharing of your data for marketing.

The contact form you submit

The form on the contact page is posted by your browser straight to Web3Forms (api.web3forms.com), which then forwards the content to the lab mailbox. A static site has no server to receive mail, so this is a deliberate trade-off: what you type passes through that third party and stays in its delivery records.

• Fields sent: your name, email address, purpose of enquiry and message.
• Sole purpose: replying to you and continuing that same conversation.
• Messages stay in the lab mailbox until the matter they concern is closed and they are no longer needed.
• If you would rather not route it through a third party, email the lab address at the foot of this page instead; it reaches exactly the same place.

Third parties your browser contacts

Three things on this site cause your browser to reach an external service. Those services may therefore see your IP address and information about your browser and device. How they handle it is governed by their own privacy policies, which this lab cannot promise on their behalf.

• GitHub Pages hosts this site. Every page you open leaves an entry in GitHub's server logs.
• Google Maps: the contact page embeds two maps, and loading them makes your browser request them from Google directly. If you would rather avoid that, do not open the contact page.
• YouTube: the three videos on the research results page are hosted on YouTube. Nothing is requested from YouTube when the page loads; the connection is made only once you press play, and from that point YouTube's policy applies, not this one.
• Web3Forms is contacted only when you press send. Ordinary browsing never reaches it.

What is stored in your browser

The site writes exactly one item to your browser: your light or dark colour preference, stored in localStorage under theme_preference. It stays on your device, is never sent to any server, and disappears when you clear your browsing data. If your browser blocks localStorage (in private mode, for instance) the site still works; it simply will not remember the preference.

Your rights

Under Taiwan's Personal Data Protection Act you may ask to see, correct or supplement the data you have given us, and you may ask us to stop using it or to delete it. Write to the address at the foot of this page and we will act once we can confirm who you are. There is no account system here, so the only data we hold about you is what you sent us yourself.

Changes to this policy

This policy changes when the site does. The revision date appears at the top of this page, and every earlier version is visible in the site's public code repository.

Who to contact

If you have any question about this policy or about your data, write to us directly.