Privacy policy
Using the site means accepting this policy
By using this site you accept this policy in full. If you do not accept it, stop using the site.
What we ask you for
Nothing about you. The site has no account, no login, no basket and no comment section. We do not ask who you are and we make no attempt to find out.
The one box you can type into is the question box on the Explore pages. It takes a question, not a name or an address; please keep anything personal out of it.
Cookies, trackers and third parties
The site runs no analytics, no tag manager, no advertising network and no session recording, and it sets no advertising cookie.
The Explore pages set one cookie: a random string, kept thirty days, used only to show you the trail of topics you have opened. It identifies a path, not a person, and it is never shared.
Reading a page contacts nobody; every file it needs is served from this domain. Asking a question does: it is sent to the services that answer it, some of which may use it to improve their own. That is the second reason to keep personal information out of the box.
Nothing here asks for your consent because nothing here needs it. If that ever changes, this page changes with it.
What the server records
Like every web server, the one that delivers this site writes a line for each request it answers: the IP address the request came from, the date and time, the address requested, the response code, and the browser and operating system the request announced.
- Why: keeping the site available, diagnosing faults, and defending it against abuse and attack. This is our legitimate interest, and there is no lighter way to run a public server.
- How long: no longer than those purposes require. Logs are rotated and the older ones deleted; none is kept indefinitely.
- Who sees it: us, and the technical providers strictly needed to run and protect the site. Nothing is sold, rented, traded or handed over for advertising.
We will disclose what a court, a regulator or the law requires us to disclose, and we may retain and use logs to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim.
What the Explore pages record
Questions asked there, and which topics were opened, kept against the random string in the cookie above and nothing else. We use them to see whether people explore past the first answer, and to avoid writing the same page twice. The address a question came from is kept for a day as a one-way hash, only to enforce a daily limit.
If you write to us
Your address and the content of your message are used to answer you and for nothing else, then deleted once the exchange is over or once any retention the law imposes has run out.
Send nothing you would not want kept. Do not send confidential, sensitive or special-category information. Unsolicited ideas, proposals and material are not treated as confidential, and sending them puts us under no obligation towards you.
Sites we link to
Pages that leave this site are governed by their own policies, not by this one. What they collect, and what they do with it, is a matter between them and you.
Where data is processed
Data may be processed on servers located outside the country you are reading from. By using the site you accept that transfer.
Security
We take the measures we consider reasonable to protect the site. No site, no server and no transmission over the internet is completely secure, and we do not warrant that ours is. You use the site at your own risk.
Children
The site is not directed at children, and it asks for no information from anyone, whatever their age.
Your rights over your data
Where the law gives you rights over data concerning you, you may exercise them: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability. Write to contact@libraryweb.info.
We may ask for whatever we need to satisfy ourselves that a request is genuinely yours, may decline a request that is manifestly unfounded or excessive or that the law allows us to decline, and will keep whatever we are required to keep. You may also complain to the supervisory authority competent for you.
This policy can change
We may change this policy at any time. The version in force is the one published on this page, and it applies from the moment it appears. Continuing to use the site after a change is how you accept the change.
The rules governing use of the site are on the terms of use page.