Information for the people in the archive

Why this page exists

The data about the people whose story Timelines tells is not collected from them: it comes from public sources. In that case, Article 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires each person to be told what is done with their data.

We have no way of contacting each person in the archive, and looking up their contact details to write to them would mean processing more of their data than the archive needs. That is why this information is published here, linked from the footer of every page of the archive, as provided for in Article 14(5)(b) of the GDPR.

Who the controller is

Germán Ezequiel Laso Andino, sole trader (libero professionista), trading as ProfBlu.

• VAT number (Partita IVA): 04702090988. Italian tax code (codice fiscale): LSNGMN88S04Z600M.
• Contact address: Via della Sega 1, 38080 Verdesina, Porte di Rendena (TN), Italia.
• Email for anything about your data: privacidad@profblu.com.

No data protection officer has been appointed.

What data we process

Data that is part of the person's public life, as the sources tell it:

• Name, the nicknames the person is known by and public identifiers (for example, their Wikidata entry).
• Date and place of birth and, where applicable, of death, with the precision the source gives: if the source only gives the year, we publish the year.
• Their public career: teams, matches, results, titles, works, publications, offices, awards, and the facts of their public biography with their date.
• Published statements by them or about them, always in quotation marks and with their source.
• Photographs and videos in which they appear, only under a free licence or embedded from their publisher (see Credits, licences and takedown).

There may be health data —an injury that kept them out of a competition, a treatment they talked about in public themselves— or data about their political activity, when it is part of their public career and they made it public themselves (Article 9(2)(e) GDPR) or it is their public activity itself, such as an office or a candidacy. We publish no other data of those categories.

What we do not publish

• By default nothing from the private life, controversies or disputes sections of the sources goes in. If the person is alive, any moment of that kind that is proposed goes through human review before it is published, even if it has its quotation.
• We do not publish convictions or legal proceedings by default.
• About their family —children, partner, parents— we publish no more than the literal sentence of the source when it is part of the public story, and never data about minors beyond that sentence.
• We do not publish contact details, home address, social media figures or anything the source does not say: nothing is inferred or filled in by hand. When two sources disagree, we say so instead of choosing one.

Where it comes from

Every published fact carries its specific source next to it, linked. The sources the archive uses are:

• Wikipedia, at a specific revision of each article, which is recorded.
• Wikidata, for dates, places, identifiers and relationships.
• Wikimedia Commons and other freely licensed image archives, for photographs and clips.
• Press: from an article we publish only the outlet, the date, the headline, the link and, at most, a short quotation in quotation marks. Never the body of the article.
• YouTube, for embedded videos of matches, performances or interviews whose publisher allows embedding.
• Other public databases of results and records, when the story needs them: sports statistics, discographies, scientific publications or awards.

Nothing is published on its own: every fact goes through the editorial team's review queue before it appears in the archive.

What for

To publish an archive of the stories of people with a public life, told year by year, in which every fact can be checked against its source.

We do not use this data for anything else: no advertising, no commercial profiling, no automated decisions about anyone. We do not sell or pass it on.

On what basis

Legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR) in reporting on the public career of people with a public profile, which is also an exercise of freedom of expression and information (Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and Article 85 GDPR).

We have balanced it against your rights like this: we only process what is already public and part of your public life, we tell it with the literal quotation of its source, we leave private life out by default, we review by hand everything that concerns living people, and you can object at any time.

Who else sees it

• Anyone who reads the archive: it is a public website.
• Hetzner, which hosts the server, the database and its backups in Germany.

Today Timelines does not send data to any artificial intelligence service. If that changes, this page will say so first.

There are no transfers outside the European Economic Area on our side. The website, like any public website, can be read from any country.

For how long

• What is published is kept for as long as the story is part of the archive, or until you object and the objection is upheld.
• The archive keeps the history of each revision and the working copy of the text of the source each quotation comes from, to be able to show where every fact came from. That copy is not published and only the editorial team sees it. Today there is no automatic deletion of those copies: they are deleted at your request or when the fact they support is withdrawn.
• Encrypted backups of the database are kept for 35 days. A withdrawn fact disappears from them when the last backup that contained it expires.

Your rights

You have the right to know what data about you we process and to receive a copy (access), to have us correct what is wrong (rectification), to have us delete what we should not hold (erasure) and to have us stop showing a fact while a complaint is resolved (restriction).

Objection

You can object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to our publishing your data (Article 21 GDPR). If you object:

1. While we look into it, we may stop showing the affected part.
2. If there are no compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, rights and freedoms, we withdraw from the archive what you ask, up to the whole story.
3. We record your name and what you asked for, and only that, so as not to publish it again.
4. If we do not uphold the objection, we explain why, and you can complain to the supervisory authority.

How to ask

Write to privacidad@profblu.com with the subject «Timelines — person in the archive» and tell us:

• who you are, or whom you represent;
• the address of the page or pages you are talking about;
• what you want: to see your data, to correct a fact, to withdraw it, or to have the whole story withdrawn, and, if you object, the reason.

If we need to check that it is you, we will ask for the minimum needed to do so, never more. We reply within one month at most; if the case is complex, the law allows two more months, and we will tell you within the first month. It is free of charge.

Today the only channel is email: there is no form. If we build one, this page will say so.

Complaining to the authority

You can complain to the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, in Italy (www.garanteprivacy.it); to the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (www.aepd.es); or to the authority of the European Union country where you live.

Deceased persons

The GDPR does not apply to the data of deceased persons, but Italian and Spanish law allow their heirs and relatives to ask for it to be corrected or withdrawn. We handle those requests through the same channel and with the same care.

Minors

The archive does not tell the story of any minor. If the story of an adult includes their childhood, only what the sources tell as part of their public biography goes in. If you think a page is about a minor, write to us and we will review it before anything else.

Changes

If what we do with this data changes, this text and the revision date at the top change.