We take privacy seriously. If you doubt us, look at
how much of our work is dedicated to privacy
issues.
We are saddened by the fact that invasions of
personal privacy can be found everywhere. Even on
the Internet, now, irresponsible marketers and
totalitarian forces are interested in tracking your
every move, and using it for their own purposes. Any
information collected about our visitors is the
private and personal business of Interhack and its
guests. Any such data collected will not be made
available to third parties. As far as we're
concerned, you don't even need to tell us your
name. Anything you tell us about yourself in any of
our demonstrations, forms, or through any other
means is completely voluntary.
We do not have any "business partners" who have
access to the data. We're not playing games with
wording. We're not giving it to anyone.
We do keep the web server access and error
logs. These record:
- The name or IP address of the computer making
the request. This is commonly a proxy server or a
dynamically-assigned address. We just use this to
see generally where you're coming from; how many
of our visitors are from educational institutions,
how many are from commercial entities in North
America, how many are coming from various
countries, etc.
- A timestamp -- when the request was made.
- What page was requested.
- The HTTP code of the request, which tells us if
the fetch was successful, of if there was some
kind of error, what the problem was.
- How much data got downloaded to satisfy a
particular request. We add all of this together to
figure out how much bandwidth the web site is
taking.
- If your client tells us which page (URL) linked
to ours, we'll look at that, too, since we like to
see how folks are finding our pages.
- If your client tells us what version it is,
we'll look at that. (These often include whether
you're running a browser with 128-bit cryptography
enabled and a hint about the operating system.) We
do not optimize our site for any browser, but it's
useful nonetheless to see what folks are using and
how usage changes as different versions and
different browsers get released.
This is the minimal set of data that will be made
whenever you visit pretty much any Web site.
