This page is available in English only.
This is not the ECB
cash-o-mat.eu is a private project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the European Central Bank or any other EU institution.
Your vote here does not count towards anything official. Nothing is sent to the ECB. Nothing here affects which design is chosen.
The ECB runs its own consultation. That is where an opinion has to go to reach the people who decide: ecb.europa.eu.
These results are not a survey
Nobody has to identify themselves to vote, so anyone can vote as often as they like. The people who find a site like this are also not a cross-section of the public.
So these numbers show what the visitors of this site clicked, counted honestly. They are not a survey and not a measure of public opinion. Please do not quote them as one.
Repeat voting is possible because the site stores nothing that would identify you. It cannot have both.
The translations are machine-made
This site is written in English and translated into 41 other languages by machine. No translator has checked them.
So a word may be off and a sentence may read more strangely than it was meant to. Nothing in a translated version is guaranteed to be correct. Where a translation and the English disagree, the English is the one that was meant.
This page is the exception, and only in one direction: it exists in English and in no other language, so there is nothing here to have been translated. What it says about your data applies whichever language you voted in.
If you find a translation that is wrong, write to contact@erik.gdn and it will be corrected.
Who runs it
Erik Goldenstein
contact@erik.gdn
This is a private, non-commercial project. Nothing is sold here. There is no advertising and no revenue of any kind. It is not run geschäftsmäßig under § 5 DDG, so no business address is published. Write to the address above with any question and you will get an answer.
What is stored when you vote
One line per answer: the denomination, the side, which design you clicked, which one you did not, which side of the screen it was on, how the pair was chosen, and the time.
No name, no email address and no IP address is stored with it.
Your two random strings
Your first vote creates two random strings and puts them in the address bar.
- The first one (
s) says which answers are yours. You can understand it like a randomly generated username. Anyone who has it can see your result. - The second one (
v) proves the answers are yours. You can understand it like a randomly generated password. It lets you keep voting, change your details, or delete everything.
The server stores only a one-way fingerprint of each string. A fingerprint can confirm a string, but it cannot be turned back into one. The strings themselves exist in readable form only in your own browser.
Two things follow from that. Anyone who has your link has your access, so the share button shares a link with the first string only. And if you lose the link, your answers cannot be found again, by you or by us. There is no password reset.
Putting access tokens in a URL has drawbacks: links can be copied, saved in browser history, or exposed to others. This trade-off avoids placing an identifying cookie on your device or adding cookies that could enable tracking.
Optional details about you
Before your result you are asked four optional questions: age, country, gender and political leaning. Each one can be left at "prefer not to say".
They are only used to group the totals. They are never shown on a shared result. A group with fewer than ten votes is not shown at all.
Political leaning is a special category of personal data under Art. 9(1) GDPR. It is stored only with your explicit consent under Art. 9(2)(a), which you give by choosing an answer. You can take that back by setting the field to "prefer not to say", or by deleting your data. The other three answers and the votes rest on legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f).
Cookies
One cookie, called lang. It stores the language you read in,
the theme you picked, and a note that you have seen your own result, so
you are not asked the optional questions twice. It holds no identifier and
nothing about your votes.
Your scroll position is also kept while the tab is open, so reloading does not lose your place.
Both are needed for the site to work as you asked for it and need no consent under § 25 (2) no. 2 TDDDG. That is why there is no cookie banner.
There is no advertising, no ad network, no tracking pixel, no embedded social media and no tracking across other sites.
Who else gets data
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European Central Bank. The banknote images are not
stored here. Your browser loads them from
www.ecb.europa.eu, which shows your IP address and your browser to the ECB. That processing is theirs and follows Regulation (EU) 2018/1725. - Hetzner hosts the server in Helsinki, Finland, under a data processing agreement. Nothing leaves the EU.
- Umami counts visits on the voting pages. It is self-hosted, so no other company is involved. It records the page, the referring page, your browser, your device and your country. It sets no cookie and stores no IP address. Legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f).
How long things are kept
The web server keeps an access log with the IP address, time, address requested, status and browser. It is used to run and protect the site, is deleted after 7 days, and is never linked to a vote.
Votes are kept for as long as the site runs. Backups are made every 15 minutes and none is older than 24 hours.
Deleting your data
While you have your link, the results page has a delete button. It removes your answers.
That deletion is complete. Nothing calculated from your votes is stored, and the public ranking is worked out again from what is left, so nothing of yours stays behind in a total. Your shared result image is deleted at the same time. Backup copies are gone within 24 hours.
Without your link nothing can be deleted, because nothing can be identified.
Your rights
You have the right to see your data, correct it, delete it, restrict its use, take it with you, object to its use, and withdraw your consent (Art. 15 to 21 and Art. 7(3) GDPR). The delete button covers most of this at once.
For anything else write to contact@erik.gdn and include the link that holds your two strings. Without it your data cannot be identified, and we will not ask you for other information to try (Art. 11(2)).
You can also complain to your national data protection authority.
The images
The banknote images are © European Central Bank, from its published design proposals for future banknotes. They are shown here with attribution under the ECB's terms for reuse of its material. Nothing here gives anyone a right to them.
They are design proposals, not legal tender. No banknote of these designs exists or has been issued, so the ECB's rules on reproducing euro banknotes (Decision ECB/2013/10) do not apply.
If you are the ECB, or anyone else with a claim to material shown here, or if you find something wrong on this site, write to contact@erik.gdn.