Terms of Service + Privacy Policy
TL;DR:
- No user data or meta-data is collected by the owner of this site.
- The host of the site only collects logs of visitor IP addresses.
- Additional information is collected if an article includes 3rd party embedded content.
- Content blockers and the Tor browser can minimize data collected by 3rd parties.
- This site is open and transparent, see the site’s source code here.
- Publications are licensed under Creative Commons.
- Software distributed by the site’s author is licensed under GPL.
More details:
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Terms of Service
Restrictions & copyright: My blog supports free culture and free access to information, therefore we do not restrict our services to anyone.
All of the works on this page are published under free culture promoting licenses. Media works (Like articles or videos) are published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International and software projects are published under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
Meaning you may use, copy, modify, redistribute for personal or commercial use any of the content displayed on this site as long as you cite the changes, attribute appropriate credit, provide a link to the original license and publish your new transformed work under the same license. For personal use you don’t have to choose a license or disclose anything.
I do not provide any warranties or liabilities with my work or software, they are provided “as they are”.
Click on the name of a license for more information.
Transparency: All my work on this site is made publicly available , to see the raw files head over to our GitHub repository.
Privacy Policy
The website’s author does not collect any information from users, however third parties do collect statistics via cookies on this page but you can easily opt out or block information collecting scripts or cookies.
Third parties who collect data: The main third party that collects data is the website host, GitHub: According to GitHub’s privacy policy, they may collect Technical Information from visitors, including logs of visitor IP addresses, to maintain the security and integrity of the website and service. Content from embedded third parties, like in-line YouTube videos or images hosted on Imgur, may collect information of their own. The amount of embedded content is kept to a minimum to avoid third party data collection, if embedded content is necessary the terms of service and privacy policy of their services apply.
How to opt out of third party data collection: Use noscript or ublock origin to block embedded content. Use the Tor browser for minimizing data collection from from GitHub. Download offline copies of articles & posts in the archive for an offline experience with minimum data collection.