Privacy
Five questions, answered plainly.
The ones a visitor would actually ask about a site like this.
This site
Does this site set a cookie?
No. Not one, and nothing else in your browser either — which is why there is no banner asking you to accept one. The one exception is a flag you can set yourself, below, and only if you ask for it.
What does it count, then?
Visits and clicks. Which page was opened; which of its links was clicked — Ask for an invitation, See the map, or a link that leaves the site; the page a visit came from, when the browser says. With each one:
- The page's address — including a campaign tag, if you arrived by one
- Browser, operating system, device type, screen size, language
- A country, region and city — worked out from your IP address, which is then dropped, never written
- A visitor number that changes every day — so yesterday's visits cannot be joined to today's
Not your IP address. Not your browser's full identifying string. Nothing you type, nothing inside a demo map, no scrolling or mouse movement, no recording of your session.
Where do the counts go?
A database on the same server that serves this page. The counting program runs there too, and it is set so that it reports nothing back to the people who wrote it. The people who can read the totals are the people who run Riffmap. Nothing is sent to anyone else.
Can I switch it off?
Yes, here, for this browser.
Your click stores one flag in this browser, umami.disabled, and the counter reads it. If your browser sends Do Not Track, the counter already skips you without it.
Yours does: Do Not Track is on in this browser.
The portal, one click away
What happens to the email I type when I ask for an invitation?
It is written down, with the note and the time, by the owner's own server — and that is all. The portal keeps the email of the Google account you would sign in with, the note if you left one (at most 200 characters), the first and the last time that address asked, and how many times. Not your IP address, not your browser, not a session. Asking twice makes one row with a count of two and the newer note.
"Only the instance owner sees what you type here. Riffmap creates no account and sends you no email — if the owner invites you, signing in with that Google account simply works."Riffmap's own request page, as it reads today.
The row stays on the server, readable by the owner and no one else; an invitation to that address is what closes it.