MIKA VS GURU / READER INFORMATION
Privacy Notice
This notice explains what information this website handles when you visit it or contact us, and why. We keep it to what the site needs to work, stay secure and answer your messages.
Who is responsible
Mika vs Guru is an independent educational project about health, science, AI literacy and practical learning skills. Mika and Guru are fictional, AI-created presenters. Mika vs Guru operates this website and is responsible for the personal information described in this notice. For privacy questions or requests, use our contact form.
What we do not do
The site has no user accounts, no sign-up and no mailing list. We do not sell or rent personal information, we do not use contact details for marketing, and we do not show advertising on the site. Our own pages do not set cookies or add advertising tags. Our site code does not personalise page content or change it according to the visitor, browser, location, traffic source or crawler status.
Why we use information
Where data protection law requires a legal basis, we rely on our legitimate interests in delivering and securing the site, preventing spam, understanding overall site use and answering the messages people send us.
When you use the contact form
The form asks for your name, your email address, a topic and your message. We use those details to check, secure, deliver, read and answer your message. Cloudflare processes the submission and sends it to our project inbox, which is hosted by Microsoft Outlook. Messages stay in that inbox until we delete them, and you can ask us to delete yours at any time through the contact form.
To stop spam, our form handler uses your IP address to limit repeated sends within a short period and passes it, with the check token, to Cloudflare Turnstile. Turnstile runs the "I'm human" check: it receives information about your browser and connection and may use cookies or similar browser storage for security. Our form handler does not put your IP address in the email. Cloudflare keeps short technical logs of the form handler for troubleshooting for a few days.
Hosting, security and visit statistics
The site is hosted and protected by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes request information, such as your IP address, browser and connection details, the page requested and the time, to deliver pages, prevent abuse and produce service-level traffic statistics. We see only combined figures, not individual visitors. We do not add an advertising or browser-analytics tag to our pages. Cloudflare's privacy policy explains how it handles this information.
Fonts from Google
Our pages load their fonts from Google Fonts. To deliver them, your browser connects to Google's servers, which receive your IP address and basic browser details. See Google's privacy policy.
Something your browser remembers
If you pause the animation on the homepage, your browser remembers that choice for the current tab using session storage. It stays on your device, is never sent to us and is cleared when you close the tab.
Links to other sites
We link to our YouTube channel, our TikTok profile and to the research and public sources we cite. Those sites have their own privacy policies, which apply once you visit them.
Visits from adverts
We may promote our videos and this website with online adverts. A link from an advert can add tracking codes to the web address, such as utm_ or gclid parameters. Our pages do not use these codes to change what you see, and we do not use them to identify you.
Children
This site is written for a general audience and is not designed to collect information from children. If you think a child has sent us personal details through the contact form, tell us and we will delete them.
Where information is processed
Cloudflare, Microsoft and Google run services in many countries, so information described here may be processed outside the country where you live.
Your choices
Using the contact form is optional, but we need its required fields to deliver and answer your message. You can ask us what you sent, ask us to correct or delete it, or ask us to restrict its use, through the contact form. Where applicable, you may object to processing based on legitimate interests and complain to the data-protection authority where you live or work. You can also block or clear site data in your browser settings.
Changes to this notice
If the site starts handling information differently, we will update this page and the date at the top.