Privacy
Last updated: 26 July 2026
Helaia is the personal site of one person — Oliver Herbelin. This page explains, in plain words, what happens to your data when you visit. The short version: no accounts, no ads, no selling of anything, one analytics tool.
1. Analytics — Microsoft Clarity
This site uses Microsoft Clarity to understand how visitors use it: which pages are read, where people click and scroll, on what kind of device. Clarity may record anonymized session replays and build heatmaps. To do this it sets cookies and collects technical data (browser, screen size, approximate region, interactions). This data is processed by Microsoft on my behalf; I use it only to improve the site. It is never used for advertising and never sold. Microsoft’s handling of this data is described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
2. Hosting
The site is served by Amazon Web Services (S3 + CloudFront). Like any web server, AWS keeps standard technical logs (IP address, requested page, time) for security and delivery purposes. I do not use these logs to identify visitors.
3. Contact forms
The contact page has no server behind it: the “form” simply opens your own mail app with a pre-filled message. Nothing is transmitted or stored by this site. When you email me, your message lives in my mailbox and is used only to answer you.
4. The apps
The applications published by Helaia (QuickestLook, Localizee, Statee) each have their own privacy policy, available from their pages. They are built on the same principle: local first, no telemetry.
5. Your rights
Under the GDPR and similar laws, you can ask what data concerns you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, or object to its processing. In practice, the only visitor data this site touches is the Clarity analytics described above. You can also block Clarity entirely with any content blocker, or your browser’s tracking protection — the site works exactly the same without it. For any request: hello@helaia.com.
6. Changes
If the site’s practices change — a new tool, a new need — this page will be updated first, and the date at the top will reflect it.