Who is responsible?
Spyridon Drakopoulos, Oppenhoffallee 143, 52066 Aachen, Germany, is responsible for this site. For privacy requests, email info@dutydiligence.com. See the Impressum for editorial provider information.
Visiting the website
The site is delivered through Cloudflare. To deliver pages and files, keep the service available, and protect it from abuse, Cloudflare processes technical request information. This can include your IP address, time of access, requested URL, browser and device information, and security signals. Public Developments content and media are served from Cloudflare; the private WordPress editorial system is not the public website backend.
We rely on our legitimate interest in operating a reliable and secure publication for necessary delivery and security processing (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). Cloudflare also provides operational and security reporting. These reports concern requests and may include automated traffic; they are not a count of individual readers.
Cloudflare retains service data according to the applicable service and account settings. We use the information available to us for site operation and security. See Cloudflare's privacy policy and data-processing information.
Article popularity
We count ordinary requests for published articles to help readers discover frequently requested material. The server adds one to an article total when it serves a qualifying article document. Repeat requests count again; these totals are approximate and do not identify individual readers or show whether someone read an article. We exclude recognised automated requests, preloads, requests with cookies or authorisation, and requests carrying Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signals. Other automated requests may still be counted.
The counter stores only the article path, a minute time bucket and the aggregate count in Cloudflare D1. It does not store IP addresses, browser details, referrers, query strings, event identifiers or visitor profiles. It adds no measurement script, cookies or browser-storage entries. Cloudflare still processes technical request information to deliver and protect the website, as described above.
We rely on our legitimate interest in helping readers discover popular articles (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). Rankings cover the latest seven days. Older totals are excluded immediately from rankings and deleted by hourly cleanup; a cleanup failure can delay deletion. Cloudflare recovery copies may retain deleted totals for a further period under the applicable D1 plan: up to seven days on Workers Free or 30 days on Workers Paid. These recovery copies are not used for the public ranking.
You can object to processing based on legitimate interests by emailing info@dutydiligence.com. We also skip counting requests when your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. We do not link historical aggregate counts to you and will not ask for extra identifying information simply to identify a past request.
Incident map
The incident list is available without loading a map. If you choose Load map, your browser requests map tiles from tile.openstreetmap.org, an OpenStreetMap Foundation service. OpenStreetMap receives technical request information such as your IP address. We rely on our legitimate interest in showing the map a reader has requested (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). Its privacy policy explains its handling of those requests.
Cookies and device storage
This site does not use advertising or readership analytics cookies. Cloudflare may set cookies when security or challenge features require them, including cookies used to distinguish automated traffic or remember that a challenge was completed. Which cookies appear depends on the request and the protections applied. See Cloudflare's cookie documentation.
Choosing to load the map causes requests to OpenStreetMap. The map choice itself is not saved in your browser, so you may need to choose it again on a later visit.
When you contact us
If you email or write to us, we handle your contact details, message, and related correspondence to answer your enquiry, correction request, or privacy request. For ordinary correspondence, we rely on our legitimate interest in responding and keeping a necessary record (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR); a legal duty may also apply to a specific request. Email is received and read in Purelymail; postal mail arrives at the address in the Impressum. We keep correspondence while we handle your message and related follow-up. When the matter is closed, we decide whether it is still needed to document a correction or privacy request, meet a legal obligation, or address a legal claim. We delete it when it is no longer needed for those purposes.
Editorial work
Earlier coverage can refer to identifiable people named in public original sources. For new Developments from 2 November 2026, our editorial policy is to describe the event without naming or otherwise identifying natural persons in our own article text or source-link labels. Linked original documents may identify people. We check the source and status of a matter and review drafts before publication. Our editorial policy explains this work.
Private editorial work uses OpenRouter to help assess candidate stories and prepare drafts. Material sent for those tasks can include source text, summaries, and information about named people. OpenRouter routes requests to model providers. An editor reviews source material and proposed articles before publication; AI does not publish directly. The provider's privacy policy describes its practices. Editorial privacy requests are assessed under the applicable rules for journalistic processing and protection of sources.
Recipients and transfers
Cloudflare provides website delivery and protection, Purelymail handles email, OpenStreetMap receives map-tile requests when you load the map, and OpenRouter and its model providers support private editorial drafting. Some of these providers may process information outside the European Economic Area. Their current privacy and transfer information is linked above. You can ask us for more information at info@dutydiligence.com.
Your rights and complaints
For ordinary website and contact processing, you may have rights to access, correct, erase, restrict, or object to processing of your data, and to data portability where its conditions apply. Contact us at info@dutydiligence.com. Requests about editorial material are considered under the rules applicable to journalistic processing.
You may complain to a data-protection supervisory authority. For ordinary website and contact processing in North Rhine-Westphalia, see the Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen. Complaints about journalistic processing may fall under the data-protection authority of the Landesanstalt für Medien NRW.
Changes
We will update this notice when our processing changes materially and show the update date when it is published.