Last updated: December 22, 2025
📋 Privacy at a Glance
- We respect your privacy and collect minimal data
- Standard web server logs only (IP, browser, pages visited)
- Privacy-focused analytics with no tracking cookies
- Ads may use cookies - you can opt out anytime
Like most websites, our web server automatically logs basic information when you visit:
- IP address - Your device's internet address
- Browser and device info - Browser type, operating system, screen size
- Pages visited - Which pages you viewed and when
- Referrer - The website that linked you here (if any)
Why we collect this: Security monitoring, debugging errors, and understanding basic traffic patterns.
How long we keep it: Server logs are retained for 30 days, then automatically deleted.
This is standard for any website and does not personally identify you.
We use privacy-friendly analytics
We use Umami, a privacy-focused analytics tool that respects your privacy.
What Umami collects:
- Page views and which communities are popular
- Referral sources (how you found us)
- General device and browser information
- Country-level location (not precise location)
What makes it privacy-friendly:
- No cookies - Umami doesn't use tracking cookies
- No personal data - We can't identify individual users
- No cross-site tracking - Your activity isn't tracked across other websites
- Respects Do Not Track - If your browser sends a DNT signal, we honor it
- Self-hosted - Analytics data stays on our servers, not sent to third parties
Why we use analytics: To understand which communities and features are most useful, so we can improve the site for everyone.
About Advertising on This Site
This site uses Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google and its partners may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site or other websites.
How Google ads work:
- Personalized ads - Google may show ads based on your interests and browsing history
- Non-personalized ads - If you opt out, you'll still see ads, but they won't be based on your interests
- Cookies - Google uses cookies to serve and measure ads
Your opt-out options:
EU/EEA Users: Under GDPR, we will ask for your consent before loading personalized ads.
Cookies we set: We do not set any cookies ourselves. All cookies on this site come from Google AdSense.
We use the following third-party services:
OpenStreetMap - Map tiles and geographic data
Geocod.io - Address geocoding
- Converts community addresses into map coordinates
- Address data is sent to Geocod.io servers for processing
- Geocod.io Privacy Policy
Google AdSense - Advertising
- Displays ads on our site
- Uses cookies for ad personalization (see Cookies & Advertising section)
- Google Privacy Policy
Browser Geolocation - Optional location feature
- If you allow it, we use your browser's location to center the map on your area
- This is processed entirely in your browser - we do not store your location
- You can deny this permission and the map will still work
You have control over your data:
- Opt out of personalized ads - Use Google Ads Settings
- Block cookies - Adjust your browser settings
- Enable Do Not Track - Our analytics respects this browser setting
For EU/EEA residents (GDPR):
- Right to access your data
- Right to rectification of inaccurate data
- Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten")
- Right to restrict processing
- Right to data portability
- Right to withdraw consent at any time
- Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
For Google-related data, you can manage and delete your data at Google Privacy Settings.
For California residents (CCPA):
- Right to know what personal information is collected
- Right to delete personal information
- Right to opt-out of sale of personal information
- Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights
We do not sell your personal information.
This website is not directed at children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately. If we discover that a child under 13 has provided personal information, we will delete it promptly.