Privacy

Updated 29 October 2026. This notice explains our website, hosting and email processing, including the limitations of the platform controls currently available to us.

Who is responsible

Reasons4beer.com (“A reason to have a beer”) is operated by Erik Lanny Andreas Nilsson in Basel-Stadt, Switzerland. He is responsible for personal data processed for the operation of this website. For privacy questions or requests, email hello@reasons4beer.com.

Postal correspondence: Erik Lanny Andreas Nilsson, Predigerhofstrasse 77, 4059 Basel, Switzerland. See also the contact page.

Reading the site

The website provides historical stories and illustrations. Its own code does not include analytics, advertising trackers, contact forms, newsletters or a customer account system. It does not write cookies or use local storage or session storage. Images and scripts are served with the site. Fonts come from your device; there is no external font service or embedded social-media widget.

Choosing an archive date changes the page address. Your browser may retain that address in its history. Stories are released according to the date in Basel (Europe/Zurich). Our server selects the available stories; your browser checks for a date change so an open page can refresh.

Hosting and access

ChatGPT Sites hosts this website and handles requests to deliver its pages. The public website can be read without signing in. The platform also provides authentication for owner access. Our own code’s lack of tracking does not mean the hosting service processes no personal data.

The ChatGPT Sites Data Processing Addendum, incorporated into the Sites terms, covers hosted personal data for Plus and Pro sites. For us as a Swiss operator, the contracting processor is OpenAI Ireland Ltd. We are the controller of personal data collected through this site; OpenAI processes hosted data on our behalf to host, maintain and support it. The agreement includes visitor-generated logs, usage data and device information in its scope.

Traffic statistics and browser storage

Sites automatically provides unique-visitor and page-view statistics separately from our website code. During a signed-out Microsoft Edge InPrivate visit on 29 October 2026, we observed __Host-appgarden-visitor, __cf_bm and cf_clearance. No cookie-choice banner appeared in that test. Two additional authentication cookies were observed during an earlier owner-signed-in visit. The purposes and published durations below come from the providers' documentation, not from measuring expiry dates in these visits.

__Host-appgarden-visitor: OpenAI lists this as an analytics cookie with a duration of 90 days.
__Host-chatgpt_sites_session and chatgpt_sites_siwc_session: OpenAI lists these as necessary authentication cookies with durations of 400 days each. They were observed during owner access, but were absent from our signed-out test.
__cf_bm: Cloudflare documents this as a bot-protection cookie that expires after 30 minutes of continuous inactivity.
cf_clearance: Cloudflare uses this for security-check results and challenge clearance. Its duration depends on configuration; the expiry on this site has not been verified.

Sources: OpenAI Cookie Policy and Cloudflare cookie documentation. OpenAI's table lists the Sites cookies under .chatgpt.site; the matching names above were observed on our custom-domain page. This does not establish a shared cookie domain. The stated cookie lifetimes are not retention periods for server logs or analytics records.

Local storage, session storage, IndexedDB and Cache storage were empty in the earlier owner-signed-in session. We have not repeated those four checks for every public-visitor configuration. These limited observations do not establish that no other data is transmitted or that the platform is anonymous or cookie-free.

Cookie choices and current limitation

We have not identified a supported site setting that disables the platform analytics cookie or a visitor control that governs it. OpenAI Support has not confirmed such a mechanism. This website therefore does not currently offer a verified on-site switch to refuse that cookie. This notice is information, not a request for consent, and continuing to browse is not treated by us as consent.

You can use your browser settings to block or delete cookies for this website. Blocking cookies may affect security checks or site access; deleting a cookie does not delete records already held by the hosting provider, and it may be set again on a later visit unless blocked. To object to processing or request assistance, contact hello@reasons4beer.com. We will handle requests and seek the hosting provider's assistance where needed; emailing us does not itself prevent the platform from setting cookies during later visits. We have asked OpenAI for a supported control and will update this notice when verified information becomes available.

Hosting providers and international processing

OpenAI’s subprocessor list identifies Cloudflare for web hosting in the United States and describes processing for Sites created by Plus and Pro users. It also lists infrastructure and support providers in other countries. This identifies the published provider arrangements; it is not a confirmed inventory of every recipient or processing location used by this particular site.

Section 4.1 of the Sites agreement expressly addresses EEA and Swiss hosted data and commits to safeguards for onward transfers through agreements containing standard contractual clauses or the adequacy route specified there. This does not establish a site-specific Swiss transfer assessment or promise Swiss-only storage.

OpenAI’s current residency guidance describes supported regional hosting for eligible workspaces. We have not verified a regional hosting commitment for this site and do not claim one.

Hosting retention and information limitations

The Sites agreement provides for return or deletion of hosted data on instruction after the agreement ends, subject to legally required retention. It does not specify the routine retention period for this site’s visitor logs or traffic statistics. We have not verified that period or the applicable deletion criteria.

OpenAI Support has not supplied a Sites-specific retention schedule or confirmed a direct owner mechanism for deleting platform-managed visitor records. We have requested clarification about identifier use, retention and deletion, and the recipients and processing locations applicable to this site. We cannot currently give a verified fixed retention period or a complete site-specific list of processing locations. These limitations also apply when we ask the provider to assist with a privacy request.

Sharing and external links

“Share this toast” uses your device’s sharing function, copies the text and link to your clipboard, or shows text for you to copy. Our site does not receive the recipients you choose. A sharing service you select processes information under its own policy.

Following a history-source link takes you to another website, which handles your visit under its own privacy practices.

Email correspondence

If you email us, we use your email address, message and attachments to answer your enquiry, investigate a correction or rights concern, or handle a privacy request. Please include only information needed for your enquiry. We do not add correspondents to a marketing mailing list.

Messages arrive at Infomaniak. Copies are forwarded to the operator’s private Gmail account, while originals remain at Infomaniak. ChatGPT checks the forwarded messages to flag enquiries needing attention. Relevant message content and resulting summaries can therefore be retained in ChatGPT conversations. Your own email provider also handles delivery.

Providers and locations

Infomaniak: Infomaniak Network SA, Geneva, Switzerland, provides the mailbox. Its hosting guidance describes Swiss data-centre storage. Its data-protection documentation distinguishes its processor role for hosted customer data from its own controller activities. The DPA sets out the processor commitments. Forwarding to Gmail means the complete correspondence workflow is not confined to Switzerland.

Google: The forwarded copies use consumer Gmail. Google’s privacy policy identifies Google Ireland Limited as controller for users based in Switzerland and describes international processing. Google LLC’s published transfer framework includes the Swiss–U.S. Data Privacy Framework. We have not contracted for a Swiss-only Gmail storage region or verified that a Google Workspace processing agreement applies to this personal account.

OpenAI: Email monitoring uses the operator’s consumer ChatGPT service, separately from Sites hosting. OpenAI’s European privacy policy names OpenAI Ireland Limited as controller for Swiss users. It describes processing in the United States and other locations of its providers and affiliates, with international-transfer safeguards. This is not a Swiss-only processing arrangement.

OpenAI’s Google app data-controls guidance restricts training on data retrieved directly from Google apps, but describes exceptions for feedback, manually supplied material and content included in responses. Memory can also use eligible information according to settings. We do not make an unconditional “never used for training” promise for correspondence or summaries.

Retention and deletion

Our retention rule is to keep correspondence only while it is needed for the enquiry and related follow-up. Material needed for a legal obligation or a legal claim is kept for that purpose for as long as necessary. Deletion must cover the Infomaniak original, Gmail copy, relevant ChatGPT conversations, any saved memories and any other copies we hold; deleting from one service does not delete from the others.

Infomaniak’s mail retention guidance states that ordinary folders have no automatic expiry and describes 30-day deletion for trash/spam. Its restoration guide describes daily backups and a recovery window of up to 30 days, depending on the plan. A recovery window is not a guarantee that every retained record disappears at that time.

In Gmail, deleted messages normally remain in the bin for 30 days. Google’s separate system-retention guidance describes a deletion process generally taking around two months and encrypted backups lasting up to six months, with possible delays and legal or security exceptions.

OpenAI’s chat-deletion guidance explains that archiving or disconnecting an app does not delete past conversations. Deleted chats are normally removed from its systems within 30 days, subject to the stated exceptions. Provider backups and legally retained records can therefore outlast removal from our everyday view.

The operator has checked that ChatGPT’s “Improve the model for everyone” setting is off. The retention rule above requires manual handling across the separate services; it is not an automatic deletion rule. We have not verified every account-specific backup, Memory or optional-sharing setting and do not promise an exact final deletion date across provider systems.

Advertising and future changes

No advertising network, paid sponsorship or affiliate tracking is currently installed. Before introducing services that change how visitor data is processed, we will update this notice and provide any required choices or consent controls.

Your privacy rights

Under applicable data-protection law, you may request information about personal data relating to you and ask for correction or deletion where the legal conditions are met. Other rights, including objection or data portability, depend on the circumstances. You may also contact the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.

To make a request, email hello@reasons4beer.com and describe what you would like us to do. We may ask for proportionate information to verify your identity. Please do not send an identity document unless we request it.