Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the personal executive website and candidate portfolio of Daniel Czerwik, hosted at daniel.czerwik.net (the "Site"). As a Senior Network and Infrastructure Technical Lead governed by Australian standards, Daniel respects your privacy and is dedicated to handling any information you share with integrity, confidentiality, and technical rigor.

We adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) established under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and apply international best-practice standards (including applicable GDPR transparency principles) regarding personal data collection, processing, and storage.

Core principles governing this policy include:

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  Zero Ad Trackers: No advertising pixels, surveillance cookies, or commercial third-party marketing brokers.
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  TLS 1.3 Encryption: All in-transit communications are encrypted via modern TLS protocols with strict HSTS enforcement.
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  Ephemeral AI Matching: Job descriptions evaluated by the AI Job Matcher are processed in memory and never used to train public models.
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  No Commercial Resale: Your contact details and inquiries are never sold, rented, or distributed to any third parties.

We collect minimal personal data, strictly limited to what is necessary for executive recruitment review, professional inquiries, and website security:

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  Direct Message Inquiries: When you complete the Executive Contact form, we collect your name, email address, optional contact phone number, subject, and message content.
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  AI Candidate Fit Assessment Data: If you utilize the AI Job Fit matcher by entering or uploading role requirements, that text is processed ephemerally solely to calculate technical alignment scores and recommendations.
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  Technical Telemetry & Security Logs: Standard HTTP server logs record IP addresses, user-agent strings, and request timestamps strictly for abuse prevention, rate limiting (anti-brute force), and DDoS mitigation.

Any information submitted through this website is used solely for legitimate professional purposes:

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  Evaluating and responding to career inquiries, technical leadership roles, and executive advisory opportunities.
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  Disclosing Daniel Czerwik’s direct communication channels (phone, email, calendar booking) to legitimate recruiters and hiring decision-makers upon successful inquiry dispatch.
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  Defending website integrity against automated spam, bot submissions, and unauthorized vulnerability exploitation.

Direct Priority Inbox Delivery: Messages submitted via the contact form are dispatched directly to Daniel's encrypted priority inbox (Daniel.Czerwik@gmail.com) and stored in a hardened database using parameterized PDO prepared statements.

We believe in an uncluttered, privacy-first web experience:

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  No Advertising or Tracking Cookies: We do not deploy third-party advertising cookies, social media tracking pixels, or cross-site monitoring tools.
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  Functional Local Storage: The site stores a single visual preference key (theme_preference: light, dark, or system) in your browser’s localStorage to preserve your display theme across visits.

To deliver security, reliability, and meeting booking functionality, this website integrates selected enterprise providers:

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  Google Cloud reCAPTCHA Enterprise: Protects forms from malicious automated bots and spam abuse. Interaction signals are evaluated by Google subject to Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
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  Google Calendar: Meeting scheduling links direct you to Google Workspace Calendar for appointment booking.
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  Cloud Hosting & Edge Infrastructure: Hosted on enterprise cloud infrastructure with continuous security patch management, strict Content Security Policy (CSP), and automated DDoS mitigation.

Under the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) and applicable privacy regulations, you retain specific rights regarding your personal information:

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  Right of Access: You may request a copy of any personal details submitted via our contact forms.
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  Right to Rectification: You may request updates or corrections to any inaccurate records.
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  Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You may request that your submitted message and contact record be permanently deleted from our database and email records at any time.