What this site records
We measure openipc.org so we can tell whether its pages do their job. This page says exactly what that means. It is short because a long one is a promise nobody checks.
Counting visitors
A counter we run ourselves, on the same server that serves the site. Nothing goes to anyone else.
What the counter records
- The page you opened, and the site you came from if your browser sent one.
- Your country, and the language your browser asks for.
- Your browser and operating system, and the size of your screen.
- Clicks that leave the site: writing to us, joining the chat, opening a donation page, or following a link elsewhere.
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A tag in the address, such as
?ref=tg-ru, when we posted the link ourselves. It is counted once and then removed from the address.
What it never touches
- No cookie, no local storage, no identifier of any kind. Nothing is kept in your browser.
- No individual visits. Only daily totals reach the disk, so there is no row anywhere that is you.
- No region or city. That needs a finer location database than we keep.
The one thing that sounds like tracking
To count one person reading three pages as one visit rather than three, the counter derives a short-lived key from your address and browser. It exists in memory for at most eight hours and is never written down. Your address is not stored by the counter at all.
The server log
The ordinary record every web server keeps.
Each request is written to a log with the address it came from, the page, and the result. We use it to find faults, to stop abuse, and to size the machine. It is deleted after 14 days.
The Open Wall
Cameras running OpenIPC can send a picture to the wall. This part is about the camera, not about you.
Published: the picture, and what the camera says about itself — chip, sensor, firmware, streamer, uptime and chip temperature.
Not published: the camera's MAC and IP addresses, both visible only to maintainers. The MAC decides two things: one camera may upload every 15 minutes, and a camera on the block list is refused. Each camera's page is named by a token that cannot be turned back into either address.
A nightly sweep removes pictures, and the descriptions that came with them, once they are 2 days old, so nothing stays beyond 3.
How long things are kept
| What | Where | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Counting totals | Our server | kept |
| The counter's short-lived key | Memory only | 8 hours |
| Server log, with addresses | Our server | 14 days |
| Open Wall pictures | Our server | up to 3 days |
| Open Wall camera details | Our server | up to 3 days |
Ask us about any of this
There is no account to delete and no profile to export, because we do not build one — but if something here is unclear or looks wrong, we would rather hear it.