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Hosting
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those sites apply their own privacy policies once you follow one. Nothing is loaded from them
beforehand, and the links are marked rel="noreferrer" so the destination is not
told which page you came from.
If you write to me, your message sits in my university mailbox and is used only to reply. It is not added to any list.
Contact
Questions about this page, or about any data relating to you, can go to mahmoud_abumandour@sfu.ca. If you are in the EU, EEA, or UK, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority.
Last updated 30 July 2026.