Privacy Policy

Who is responsible for this site

Axen Works is run by one person: Ulisses Balbino, a commercial film director based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. There is no company, no staff and no data department. For anything on this page, including a request to delete something, the address is ulisses@openyourais.com and I am the one who reads it.

The short version

The calculators process the values you enter in your browser. The site uses Vercel for hosting and Web Analytics, and includes Google AdSense code. There are no user accounts or file uploads. These services can process technical browsing information, as described below.

Calculator inputs and contact

Card capacities, bitrates, durations, timecodes and shutter angles are used by the calculator scripts locally. We do not intentionally send these input values to analytics or advertising services. Do not put personal information in page URLs or query parameters, which can be recorded by hosting and measurement services.

The contact form prepares a message in your own email application. You choose whether to send it. If you email us, we receive your address and the information you include so we can respond.

Analytics

We use Vercel Web Analytics to understand visits and improve the tools. It collects page-view information such as the page URL, referring site, approximate location, browser and device type. According to Vercel, this service uses aggregated statistics and does not use tracking cookies. Technical information is still processed to provide the service. See Vercel Web Analytics privacy documentation.

We also use Google Search Console for aggregate search performance, including queries, impressions and clicks. Search Console does not require a tracking script in these pages. We have not added Google Analytics.

Advertising, cookies and Google AdSense

Google AdSense code is installed on this site. Advertising availability depends on Google's approval and the account settings; installing the code does not mean ads are currently being served.

Google and its partners may use cookies and process browsing information when providing advertising services, including to serve personalised ads based on visits to this and other websites. You can manage Google's advertising preferences in My Ad Center and control cookies in your browser. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services and Google's advertising cookie information.

A European regulations message for axenworks.com is published in Google's consent management platform. Where applicable, visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland can use the consent message to accept, reject or manage the purposes presented. Personalised advertising requires the applicable consent. Advertising preferences and browser cookie controls remain available through the links above.

Hosting and service providers

Vercel hosts the site and processes technical requests, including network information, the requested address and request time, to deliver and secure the pages. Its handling and retention of data are described in the Vercel privacy policy. Google processes information under its own policies linked above. These providers may process data outside your country.

Information we use

• Email correspondence you choose to send us, used to answer questions and address reports.
• Hosting request information and aggregated Web Analytics reports, used to operate and improve the site.
• Advertising and consent information handled by Google and its partners when those services operate.

We do not create user accounts or sell mailing lists. Please avoid including passwords, payment details or other sensitive information in messages.

Your rights under the GDPR

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, data protection law gives you a set of rights over personal data about you. They apply to the small amount described above, and I will honour them regardless of where you happen to live, because running two standards would be silly.

• Access. Ask what I hold about you and get a copy.
• Rectification. Ask me to correct something that is wrong.
• Erasure. Ask me to delete it. See the next section for exactly how.
• Restriction and objection. Ask me to stop using it, including objecting to any processing based on legitimate interests.
• Portability. Ask for it in a form you can take elsewhere.
• Withdrawing consent. Where processing rests on consent, such as personalised advertising cookies, you can withdraw it at any time, and doing so does not affect what happened before you withdrew it.
• Complaint. You can complain to your national data protection authority. You do not need my permission and you do not have to talk to me first.

The legal bases involved are short: legitimate interests for delivering the pages and keeping the site running securely, consent for advertising cookies where consent is required, and legitimate interests for replying to an email you chose to send me.

How to ask for your data to be removed

Send an email to ulisses@openyourais.com with the word delete in the subject line, from the address you want removed. You do not have to explain why, and you do not have to be polite about it.

What happens next: I delete the correspondence from my mailbox, including the sent copies, and I reply once to confirm it is done. I aim to do this within a few days and in any case within one month, which is the limit the GDPR sets. If deleting the message would mean losing a correction to a published figure, I will keep the corrected figure and the source, because that is now part of a public page, and delete everything that identifies you.

Two things I genuinely cannot delete for you, and I would rather say so than pretend. Host request logs are held by Vercel under their own retention rules, so those go through them. Advertising cookies live in your browser and belong to the vendor that set them, so you remove those by clearing your cookies or by using the opt out links above.

Brazil, California and everywhere else

I am based in Brazil, so the Lei Geral de Protecao de Dados applies to me. Its rights are close to the ones listed above, and the same email address serves for them. If you are in California, the same request route covers the right to know, the right to delete and the right to opt out of the sale of personal information, which is easy to honour here because there is nothing to sell and no sale has ever happened.

Children

This site is a set of technical calculators for video production. It is not directed at children, it has no accounts, and it does not knowingly solicit personal information from children. If you believe a child has sent me personal information, write to me and I will delete it.

Links to other sites

This site links out to manufacturer and platform documentation constantly, because naming sources is the entire point of it. Those sites have their own privacy practices and this policy does not cover them. The same is true of any advertisement, which takes you to an advertiser's site once it exists.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS. No method of transmitting or storing information is completely secure. Email, on the other hand, is ordinary email: do not send me anything confidential that you would not put on a postcard.

Changes to this policy

When this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it. Anything material, such as advertising going live or an analytics tool being added, gets described in the section it belongs to rather than slipped in quietly. We review this policy when the services used by the site change.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or a request under any of the rights above, go to ulisses@openyourais.com. The contact page has more on what happens to a message once you send it.