The short version: this website collects nothing unless you ask it to. No analytics, no cookies, no tracking pixels, no third-party scripts. If you join the RIMAR reading list, we keep your email address to tell you when a new book is out, and nothing else. This policy also explains how RIMAR uses the Amazon Advertising API — for its own advertising accounts only, on behalf of nobody else. The long version follows, in plain English.
RIMAR is an independent studio based in Italy, run by Marco Riminesi as sole operator. RIMAR designs and publishes iOS applications, digital products, and books.
For the limited processing described in this policy, the data controller is Marco Riminesi, trading as RIMAR, contactable at marco@rimar.me.
This policy covers:
@rimar.me address.Individual RIMAR applications publish their own, separate privacy policies, because their data practices differ from the website's. For example, the Past Due iOS app is covered at rimar.me/past-due/privacy.
rimar.me collects no personal data from visitors who read it. It is a set of static HTML, CSS, and image files. Specifically, there is:
The web host that serves rimar.me may keep standard server access logs (IP address, timestamp, requested URL, user agent) for security and operational purposes, as essentially all web hosting does. RIMAR does not consult these logs for analytics, does not build visitor profiles from them, and does not combine them with any other data.
The RIMAR reading list is a short email when a new RIMAR book is out. If you tick the second box, the email can also offer you a free copy of a new book. A free copy never comes with conditions.
If you email marco@rimar.me, or any
other @rimar.me address, your message and your email address
arrive in our ordinary mailbox so that we can reply.
You can ask us to delete our correspondence with you at any time — write to the same address with the subject "Delete my email history" and we will purge the relevant threads.
RIMAR advertises its own books and products on Amazon. To manage that advertising — creating reports, monitoring spend, and pausing campaigns that are not performing — RIMAR uses the Amazon Advertising API with internal tooling that it builds and runs for itself.
The data retrieved is RIMAR's own campaign performance data: campaign and keyword names, impressions, clicks, spend, attributed sales, and the aggregate reports Amazon provides. It contains no personal data about Amazon shoppers. Amazon does not expose customer identities through this API, and RIMAR neither requests nor attempts to derive them.
RIMAR uses third-party data providers to research publicly available marketplace information — bestseller rankings, prices, publication dates, and publicly posted product reviews — in order to decide what to publish. These queries concern products, not people. RIMAR does not purchase, assemble, or process personal data about consumers through these services.
RIMAR publishes books through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. If you buy one, Amazon is the seller and the data controller for that transaction — your name, address, and payment details are held by Amazon under Amazon's own privacy notice, not by RIMAR.
RIMAR receives only aggregated, anonymous sales reports from Amazon: units sold, royalties, pages read, and the marketplace they came from. RIMAR never learns who bought a book. We cannot identify our readers, and we do not try to.
Reviews left on Amazon are public and controlled by Amazon and their authors. RIMAR does not pay for reviews, does not solicit positive reviews in exchange for anything, and does not contact reviewers privately.
Email correspondence is retained for as long as it is useful to support an ongoing relationship, and deleted on request. Reading-list addresses are retained until you leave the list (§ 3). Advertising reports are retained while the campaigns they describe remain relevant to business decisions. RIMAR operates from Italy; where a service provider processes data outside the EEA, that provider's own safeguards and standard contractual clauses apply.
Under the GDPR and equivalent laws (UK GDPR, California CCPA, and others), you have the right to access, correct, port, restrict, object to, and erase personal data held about you.
Because rimar.me collects no personal data, in most cases there is nothing for us to hold. Where we do hold something — email you have sent us, or your reading-list sign-up — write to marco@rimar.me and we will act on your request promptly and without charge.
If you are in the EU and believe we have handled your data improperly, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority. In Italy this is the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali.
RIMAR's website and products are intended for adults and are not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children — and, as described above, we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone through this website.
If our practices change — for example, if analytics are ever added — this page will be updated before the change takes effect, and the "Last updated" date at the top will change accordingly.
Privacy questions, requests, or complaints: marco@rimar.me.
We read every message and reply same-day, Mon–Fri (Italy time), in English or Italian.