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I try to respect your privacy and be open about what information my website and applications keep. This page is generated based on state such as cookies that were given to my website by your browser. Read on to see what this website knows about you.

What Your Browser Tells Us About You

Color Preference

default

My website pages use but do not track your color preference.

Font Size Preference

default

My website pages use but do not track your font preference.

Browser Window Width

We don't know

My website pages use but do not track the width of your browser. This website's pages use the information to tailor themselves to minimize the amount of flicker you see when your page first renders.

What My Web Hosting Service Tells Me About You

My website has access to information browsers always reveal when talking to web servers. Here is a list of the most sensitive of this information, plus a reminder of whether/how I use it.

Browser Type

CCBot/2.0 (https://commoncrawl.org/faq/)

My website includes the browser type in incident reports.

Referring Web Page

I log this in an incident report if the scripting code in a website page reports that it crashed in your browser.

Your Computer's IP (Network) Address

18.97.9.171

I do not use this right now, but if I detect trouble from spammers or kindred trouble makers, I will use this as needed to block or backtrack the attacks.

What I Track About Website Visitors and App Users

In addition to the product reviews, problem reports, helpful hints, and product related suggestions that you voluntarily submit, my website and applications call home to let me track the following data:

Browser Setting For Scripts

scripting is blocked

The older version of my website reported this. My website counted the total number of pages viewed with scripting disabled, summed over all visitors.

Visits to each web page and application screen

The version of this website and my applications released while I was attempting to offer apps as a business kept a count of the total number of visits for each web page and application screen. The counts were stored as sums over all visits for all users. They were never broken down by user or labeled by user.

The versions of this website and applications created since I switched to hobbyist mode do not collect such information outside of standard website hosting logs and problem reports. In the versions of applications released in hobbyist mode, the sequence of screens visited recently and more detailed user activity is included with any problem reports that you decide to send me. You will be given the chance to edit each problem report first to safeguard against release of information that you consider private. The details of recent activity leading up to a crash or to the point where you are frustrated enough to send a report are used to figure out what is wrong and how to fix it.

Number of uses of each major feature

When I write an application, I decide on what "features" should be tracked, either to guide decisions on what features to focus on or to include in a listing of what you did leading up to a serious fault (e.g. crash). For example, I might track whether an application is used in "inches" mode or "centimeters" mode. If a bug report says a crash happened while in centimeters mode and I can't get the application to crash in the default inches mode, I would know to see if switching to centimeters mode would trigger the crash.

My applications only upload information about feature usage for feature guidance mode in the form of counts that are stored as the sum over all users, and then only if you first explicitly opt in first. My applications will only upload recent feature usage data with problem reports you ask to send and then only after you have a chance to edit out details that you consider to be too sensitive.

Measures of Performance

When I can, I write my applications to monitor their usage of the CPU, memory, and disk. Some versions of my applications work with my website to record aggregated statistics (i.e. not broken down by user or by computer) so that I can keep an eye out for bugs that show up as sluggish behavior or resource hogging. These applications only update data if you explicitly granted permission. Recent versions only send up such data when you decide to send me a problem report.