Privacy

No IP address in the clear

The submission form needs to limit abuse, but it never stores an IP address: only an irreversible fingerprint, computed with a salt regenerated daily. Both the fingerprint and the salt are erased after 48 hours.

Audience measurement, and nothing before you agree

The site measures its traffic with two third-party tools: Google Analytics, which counts page views, and Contentsquare, which records navigation paths and clicked areas. Neither loads until you answer the banner, and refusing is as easy as accepting. You can change your mind at any time through “Manage trackers”, at the bottom of every page.

Contentsquare replays navigation: every input field on the site is masked in the recording, and the contact and submission pages are excluded entirely. What you type into a form never reaches it.

Opening the contact page removes you from that recording for good, not just for the visit: removal requests come through there, and nobody should have to choose between asking for one and being tracked.

No ad network, no resale, no commercial profiling.

The site sets a cookie even when you refuse: it remembers your answer, and its only purpose is to stop asking. The cookies each tool sets are listed in the banner’s panel, which is the open-source CookieConsent, served from our own servers rather than its. Apart from that one, the site’s only cookie is the back-office session, which concerns the moderation team alone.

The anti-robot check on our forms uses Cloudflare Turnstile, which does not profile the person filling them in.

What is kept

The content of published events, which is public by nature. Moderation decisions, with their date and the name of the person who made them.

Messages sent through the contact form, with your email address if you left one — it is optional. Their address fingerprint follows the same rule and disappears after 48 hours.

Each message triggers a notification sent through a third-party email delivery service, which therefore sees its content. The same goes for the title and date of an event sent through the submission form. These are the only places on the site where a third party reads what you write: the measurement tools receive none of it.

Search engines and archives

The site is indexable: that is the whole point. It does, however, ask not to be cached or archived, and blocks archiving robots by name.

Without that, a removed event would live on in a search engine’s cache and in the Wayback Machine, and our removal commitment would be worthless.