Table of Contents

• Cookies
• Tracking
• Analytics
• Ads
• Social
• Live Chat
• Other

Cookies

Do and how we use cookies?

The only cookie we use is the authentication cookie named hspT. It is only set after you log in to https://app.hostedstatus.page, and cleared if you log out.

Status Page viewers are not being tracked by any cookies.

Tracking

Do we track you?

We are not tracking you. We do not use any cookies or other tracking or identification-related super-secret technologies.

Fonts

We took a step further, and we use the privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for Google Fonts, made available by coolLabs: https://fonts.coollabs.io.

Update: We're hosting our fonts on our servers now. Nevertheless, we do suggest checking out the A privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for Google Fonts. ❤️

Google FLoC & Privacy Sandbox

We fought against the Google FLoC, inspired by our friends from Plausible Analytics (by enforcing the interest-cohort=() via the Permissions-Policy header), but apparently Google have abandoned it in January 2022! 🎉

We do suggest checking this site for more details: https://amifloced.org/ to learn more about whether you're affected by the Google FLoC.

Analytics

Do we use it and which one is it

We use simple and privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative called Plausible Analytics, and we do not use any other analytics services. Plausible is lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, powered by European-owned cloud infrastructure 🇪🇺

We respect your "Do Not Track" settings, and if you've activated it in your browser, we honor your request not to be tracked, and will not include you in our visitor statistics.

Advertising

Information about advertisements

We do not use any advertising ad-revenue services. We might include links to our friends services on our site (e.g., "Fosshost").

Social Media

We do use social media sharing buttons on our blog, but they are merely a hard-coded links for sharing blog posts. No 3rd-party plugins or scripts are used:

<a class='share-btn share-btn-twitter' href='https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=https://hostedstatus.page/blog/articleURL' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>
    <i class="bi bi-twitter"></i>
    Tweet
</a>
<a class='share-btn share-btn-facebook' href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://hostedstatus.page/blog/articleURL' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>
    <i class="bi bi-facebook"></i>
    Share
</a>
<a class='share-btn share-btn-linkedin' href='https://www.linkedin.com/cws/share?url=https://hostedstatus.page/blog/articleURL' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>
    <i class="bi bi-linkedin"></i>
    Share
</a>
<a class='share-btn share-btn-reddit' href='https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https://hostedstatus.page/blog/articleURL&amp;title=articleTitle' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>
    <i class="bi bi-reddit"></i>
    Share
</a>
<a class='share-btn share-btn-mail' href='mailto:?subject=articleTitle&amp;&amp;body=https://hostedstatus.page/blog/articleURL' rel='nofollow' target='_blank' title='via email'>
    <i class="bi bi-envelope"></i>
    Share
</a>
    

However, various content blockers may block these links as well, so you won't be able to see them after each post.

Chatwoot

We use Chatwoot for our Live Chat support, but only if you explicitly opt-in to using it - it's not enabled by default (see the cookies section).

Other

Any other privacy-related stuff

We do not collect any personal information other than the email address, your website URL, and your name (aliases, nicknames or random names are fine!) you provide when you register.

Credit card information is not collected - all purchases and subscriptions are handled by Paddle, inc. Your home address is not collected. We only keep the transaction ID (which is a random integer, e.g. 1042907-384786).

We do not sell or share your personal information with any third parties (even if we wanted to, we don't have it).

Passwords are not stored in plain-text. They are not recoverable, are encrypted using one-way encryption algorithm. In case you forgot your password, you will have to reset it.