colofon · 05
Colophon
Who makes Vroeg, who carries final responsibility, and how the system works.
> **PRE-LAUNCH:** four fields below are not yet populated
> (
[TBD]: responsible editor · address · KBO/BCE · registered office).
> Belgian press law (1831 Press Act, art. 23–29 + Book XII of the Code
> of Economic Law) requires these to be filled before public launch.
## Responsible editor
Per Belgian press law (articles 23–29 of the 1831 Press Act, and Book
XII of the Code of Economic Law), the natural person named below
carries non-transferable criminal liability for every publication on
`vroegsignaal.be`.
- Name
- [TBD — to be filled before public launch]
- Capacity
- Editor-in-chief, Vroeg-redactie
- Address
- [TBD — EU-resident postal address required]
- Contact
- redactie@vroegsignaal.be
- Legal form
- Vroeg VZW (Belgian non-profit) — [incorporation in progress]
- KBO/BCE number
- [TBD — assigned at incorporation]
- Registered office
- [TBD]
- Purpose
- Independent journalistic reporting on EU and Belgian AI policy, AI Act enforcement, AI markets, and the impact of AI on Low Countries society and economy.
- Pipeline
- Source code open at github.com/chutapp/vroeg. Audit trail (evidence-ledger) and hypothesis database publicly inspectable per article via the SHA-256 in the Phrack footer.
- Models used
-
- Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 — primary generation
- Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 — claim auditing + moderation pre-flight
- Jina v3 embeddings — semantic deduplication
- Training data
- Vroeg does not train any models. Vroeg uses Anthropic's commercial LLM APIs. For the training data of those models, Vroeg refers to the Anthropic Acceptable Use Policy and the Anthropic model cards.
- Sources
- EUR-Lex, Belgian Gazette, EU AI Office press materials, OpenAlex, arXiv, ASML/imec/INRIA/ETH/KU Leuven/UGent press releases, EDPB publications, and verified market data via DataForSEO (search-volume signal detection, not content).
- Cross-verification
- Every checkable claim is tested by an independent claim-auditor pass against at least two primary sources before publication is authorised. See Editorial standards for the full source ladder and falsification protocol.
- Tooling used
- Astro 5 (static-site generator) · Hetzner CX23 Falkenstein (compute) · Nginx (serving) · Let's Encrypt (TLS) · GitHub Actions (CI/CD).
- Data controller
- Vroeg VZW (upon incorporation) — interim: [responsible editor]
- DPO contact
- dpo@vroegsignaal.be
- Data collected
- Vroeg collects no cookies, no tracking pixels, no personal data via the public website. Server-side logs (Nginx access logs on Hetzner CX23, 90-day retention) contain IP address, user-agent and URL — retained for abuse-detection and DDoS mitigation, as permitted under GDPR Art. 6(1)(f) (legitimate interest).
- Newsletter (Phase 2)
- When the newsletter launches, opt-in is via explicit double-confirmation. Email address and language preference are retained while the user stays subscribed; unsubscribe is via every newsletter.
- Data subject rights
- Access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection as provided in GDPR articles 15–22. Requests via dpo@vroegsignaal.be. Complaints to the Belgian Data Protection Authority (Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels).
- Error reported
- Mail meld@vroegsignaal.be or see the public corrections log. Response time: within 5 business days.
- Copyright complaint
- Mail redactie@vroegsignaal.be with subject "DMCA / Copyright" and the claimed content + evidence.
- Privacy takedown
- Mail dpo@vroegsignaal.be with the URL and the requested measure (rectification / erasure).
- Hosting
- Hetzner Online GmbH — Falkenstein datacenter, Germany (EU).
- Domain registration
- vroegsignaal.be · `.be` ccTLD via DNS Belgium.
- TLS
- Let's Encrypt (ISRG Root X1).
- CDN
- None (direct origin — Falkenstein → Brussels ~15-25 ms).