Privacy policy

2.1 Visiting this website: server logs

Our web server records each request in an access log: your IP address, the time, the address you asked for (without anything after a “?”, which we cut off), the method, the answer's status, size and duration, your browser's user agent and the page you came from (also cut off at its “?”). On news.stationkeeper.gg, where a page's address carries your subscriber id, that id is blanked in the log too. We use the log to run the servers, to find faults and to recognise attacks.

To stop a flood of requests, the server counts requests per IP address for a few minutes, in memory only. The application behind the form keeps no IP address in its logs.

2.2 The waitlist and the news

When you join the waitlist we store, in our own installation of the newsletter software listmonk on our server:

• your e-mail address and the language of the page you used;
• a code of your own, for the link you can share, and the code of the link you came through, if any (another waitlist entry's or a creator's);
• when you joined, when we sent you the confirmation mail and, after you confirmed, when we sent the welcome mail;
• your subscription to two lists, the launch invite and the news about Stationkeeper, with their status (unconfirmed, confirmed, unsubscribed).

Your address is on the lists only after you click the button in the confirmation mail (double opt-in). As proof of your consent we record the time and the IP address of that confirmation. If you came through someone else's link, your sign-up counts for their link once you have confirmed; we do not tell them your address.

We use the address to send you the invite when Stationkeeper opens and news about Stationkeeper. At the launch the waitlist moves, with its consent records, to the Stationkeeper service's own database (same controller, same hosting provider).

2.3 Keeping bots out of the form

Before the form is sent, your browser solves a small computing puzzle (a proof of work in the format of the open-source project ALTCHA). The puzzle comes from our own server and is checked there; no third party is involved, and it sets no cookie. To accept each solved puzzle only once, our server stores the puzzle itself (a random value that says nothing about you) until it has expired.

2.4 The e-mails we send

We send the confirmation mail, the welcome mail with your link, the launch invite and the news through the e-mail delivery service Lettermint (Netherlands), which receives your address and the mail and delivers it for us. Lettermint tells our listmonk when a mail could not be delivered (a bounce) or was marked as spam; after a permanent failure or a spam complaint we send nothing more to that address, and after the third temporary failure it is unsubscribed. We do not track whether you open our mails or click their links. Every mail has a link to unsubscribe.

2.5 E-mails to us

If you write to us (for example to hello@stationkeeper.gg, or by replying to one of our mails), your message is stored in our mailbox at Proton (Proton AG, Switzerland), and we use it to answer you.

2.6 Cookies and your device

This website sets no cookies and loads nothing from other servers: its fonts and scripts come from our own. If you choose a theme (dark, light or system) in the footer, your browser keeps that choice on your device under “sk.theme” (local storage); it is never sent to us.