Privacy notice

The short version

This site collects as little as it can get away with. There is no account system, so there is nothing to sign into and no profile attached to anything. Nothing on the site is personalised, because nothing is known about whoever is reading it.

The only information that reaches this site deliberately is what someone types into one of the three forms and submits. Everything else is either not collected or discarded.

What the three forms store

The contact form, the requests form and the takedown form each write their submissions to a separate file. Each file holds only what was typed into that form.

• Contact form: name or handle, reply address, subject, title referenced, message
• Requests form: software name, version, category, platform, notes, optional reply address
• Takedown form: filer name, organisation, contact address, work claimed, addresses listed, authority and good faith statements
• Nothing else is attached to a submission, and no submission is linked to any other

What happens as a query is typed

The search field sends what has been typed to this site so the matching titles can be found and returned. Those queries are answered and not stored. There is no search history, no query log kept for analysis, and nothing tying one query to another.

Search runs entirely against this site. No query is passed to any third party service and nothing about a search leaves this index.

Explicitly

• No advertising network is embedded on any page
• No third party analytics or tracking script runs anywhere on this site
• No cookie is set for tracking, profiling or measurement
• No submission is sold, shared or passed to anyone outside the team
• No profile is built, because there is no account system to attach one to

Getting a submission deleted

Anything submitted through a form can be deleted on request. Send the request through the contact page, describing which submission it concerns closely enough to identify it, and the record is removed.

Takedown notices are the one exception. Those are kept as a record of what was actioned and why, so that a re-listing of the same work can be caught later.