The Beast Within: Privacy Policy

(Still a draft and subject to change.)

The privacy policy is stated rather plainly, because I'm not a lawyer.

1. I will only knowingly store identifying information if such information is actually needed for identification. This will include names, email addresses, websites and possibly user IDs such as OpenIDs. All of the applications I develop will use hashed passwords. I will make the best efforts to keep identifying information safe. I've made effort to reduce the use of information that can potentially expose the user to abuse (e.g. email addresses, which could end up to the hands of spammers). Email addresses will not be shown publicly unless requested by the user. All other information will only be shown if provided and *explicitly* stated as publicly viewable.
2. I make no guarantees what information third-party applications (e.g. Melody) store. However, I try to keep them up-to-date and I only use open source packages that appear to use sane security practices.
3. My webhost collects standard Apache log information. Some of these pages use Google Analytics, but I, personally, am only concerned of aggregate information that doesn't identify users: what search keywords people use to find the pages, which websites they come from, maybe which countries they come from and what they do on the site, on broad terms (e.g. do they actually read the pages or do they go away).
4. External image use is discouraged, and should only appear in third-party applications. Some pages use third-party JavaScript; current known applications used include Google Analytics an Disqus.
5. Visitor IP addresses may be logged to make spam quenching easier, but neither the address itself nor the block owner are ever displayed publicly. Spammers may be ridiculed, though.

There is admittedly currently no easy way to contact me if problems are actually present, but you can try emailing me. Since I believe email is a moribund medium, I cannot make guarantees about reaction times, which is admittedly a pretty bad thing. Expect this to be fixed in due time.

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