What this site knows about you
Very little. There are no accounts, no adverts, no analytics and no tracking cookies.
First version
This notice describes how the site works today. It is being reviewed and may be updated.
Who is responsible
Michael Lusk, Ghent, Belgium, runs this site as a personal non-profit project. Contact:
What is stored, and why
- Guides you submit: the file, its title, summary and topic, and your name, ORCID iD and DOI if you choose to give them. These are published. You can change or delete them at any time with your private edit link.
- Comments: the text and the name you give, if any. These are published.
- Ratings and “I followed this and it worked” marks: to allow one per reader per guide, the site stores a scrambled code made from your IP address, the guide and a secret key. The code cannot be turned back into your address and is different for every guide.
- Reports: what you write, and your email address if you give one for a reply. Reports are private and are deleted once they are settled.
IP addresses
Your IP address is never stored. To stop spam, the site limits how often one connection can submit, comment, rate or report. For that it keeps a scrambled code made from your address, the date and a secret key. The code changes every day, cannot be turned back into your address, and is deleted after 24 hours.
Services this site relies on
- Cloudflare hosts the site and its database, and handles every request, including your IP address, as the hosting provider.
- Cloudflare Turnstile runs an automatic check that you are a person when you submit a guide, a comment or a report. It loads only at that moment.
- Anthropic provides the AI model that screens submissions. The text of a submitted guide or comment, with its title, summary and the author name given, is sent to Anthropic's API for that purpose. Your IP address is not sent.
Fonts and scripts are served from this site, not from a third party. Guides in the library run in a sealed frame that cannot contact any other server.
What stays in your browser
The Guide Guide tool keeps your topic, choices and ticks in your browser's storage so you can come back later. The library remembers there which guides you rated or marked as tested. None of this is sent to the site. Clearing your browser data removes it.
Your rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation you can ask for access to your data, for corrections and for deletion, and you can object to its use. You can delete your own guide directly with your private edit link. For anything else, write to the contact address above. You also have the right to complain to the Belgian Data Protection Authority (dataprotectionauthority.be).
The legal bases are your consent when you choose to publish something, and the legitimate interest in keeping the site free of spam and abuse.