The Zero-Employee Company

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 18 July 2026

This website exists to tell you about a book. It is deliberately built to process as little of your data as possible: no cookies, no analytics, no advertising trackers, no social media plugins, and no third-party fonts or scripts. This page explains the little that remains, and your rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Who is responsible

The controller for this website is Giovanni Brees, the author of The Zero-Employee Company. You can reach him at zeroemployeecompany [at] giovannibrees [dot] com (written this way to reduce spam; replace the words with the usual symbols).

What data this site processes

Technical data during hosting. This site is served by Cloudflare, Inc. from its global network. When you visit any website, your browser transmits technical information such as your IP address, browser type, and the pages requested. Cloudflare processes this data on our behalf to deliver the site and protect it from attacks and abuse. The legal basis is legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) in operating a secure, functioning website. We do not use this data to identify or profile you, and this site has no analytics configured.

Email contact. If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you write. We use it only to reply and handle your request (Art. 6(1)(b) and 6(1)(f) GDPR). Emails are kept only as long as needed for the correspondence and any legal retention duties, then deleted.

That is the complete list. This site has no accounts, no forms, no newsletter, and no payment processing.

What this site does not do

• No cookies of any kind (see the cookie policy)
• No analytics or visitor tracking
• No advertising or remarketing
• No social media embeds or share buttons
• No requests to third-party servers: fonts and all assets are hosted on this domain

Links to other websites

This site links to external websites, most notably Amazon (to buy the book) and GitHub. Once you follow such a link, the privacy policy of that website applies. We recommend reading it; we have no control over what those sites do with your data.

International transfers

Cloudflare operates a global network, so technical data may be processed outside the European Economic Area. Cloudflare participates in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and uses Standard Contractual Clauses to safeguard such transfers.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access, rectify, and erase personal data concerning you, the right to restrict or object to its processing, the right to data portability, and the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, such as the one in your EU country of residence (full list at edpb.europa.eu). Given how little this site processes, the most this will usually mean in practice is deleting an email exchange - but the rights are yours regardless.

To exercise any of these rights, including the right to erasure ("right to be forgotten", Art. 17 GDPR), email info [at] giovannibrees [dot] com (written this way to reduce spam; replace the words with the usual symbols). We will respond within one month, as the GDPR requires.

Changes

If this website ever starts doing more than it does today (for example a newsletter), this policy will be updated first and the "last updated" date above will change.