Privacy

Amigadex tracks no one. It counts how often its functions are used, to know what is worth improving, and nothing that says who used them.

What is counted

For each day, how many times each function of the site was used: “search, sorted by newest”, “pin a source”, “mark all as read”, “news feed as Atom”, “a search that found nothing”. That is all. The counts keep:

• no IP address, no cookie or account identifier, no user agent;
• no search text, no topic or word you follow or mute, no address you open;
• robots and scripts as a single number, apart.

Counts older than about a year are deleted. The maintainers see them on the admin page.

The cookie

The amigadex cookie holds your own settings, so the site can show them back to you: pinned sources, platforms, sites and projects, followed topics, muted words, hidden languages, how many links per source, when you last clicked “Mark all as read”, and which tips you closed. It carries no identifier. It stays in your browser; the server reads it to build your page and keeps nothing of it. Delete it and the site forgets you.

Signing in with GitHub

Only to find the same settings on every browser. GitHub tells Amigadex your login and nothing more is asked (no e-mail, no access to your repositories). Your settings are then saved under your login, and a session cookie keeps you signed in. Your account page deletes them for good.

What the server keeps anyway

Like any web server it writes a technical log line per request, here without your IP address, without the query string and without your browser's name: the time, the page asked for, the answer code and how long it took. The host (Microsoft Azure) handles the connection like any web host. There are no analytics, no ads and no third-party scripts or fonts on these pages.

What you send on purpose

A message from the contact form is kept with the name and address you choose to give, and the page of Amigadex you wrote from, until it is answered or no longer needed. A scrambled form of your address is kept one hour next to it, to stop floods, then erased.

A site, repository or feed submitted on /submit or added from “Your index” is kept with its note, without who sent it, so that it can be checked and indexed for everyone. To stop floods, a scrambled form of your address is kept for one hour next to it, then erased.