Our web server logs do not store any IP information. I do not need it.
Cookies
I do not issue or collect any cookies on the unscatter.com domain. I do not offer any site customization and have no interest in tracking your actions on the site, so I have no need to issue cookies.
I do collect user agents of requests. I do this to help idenfity bots and scrapers that may be violating my robots.txt file. I'd rather not have to collect that, but I have found it necessary for setting up our CloudFlare firewall to reduce load from some more malcious ones.
While writing this, I found that CloudFlare is now offering bot protection for the plan I use. I may review this choice once I see how this works over time.
Time and URLI do collect the time and the url off all hits to the website. I use this to monitor request load to the site and what is being hit.
Search termsEvery search I store a record of the term searched for and a time stamp. Just two fields, term and timestamp. I plan to use this information to track the frequency of search terms and may try to monetize this data as part of an API and/or otherwise make it available to track trending.
Unscatter.com is hosted on Digial Ocean. We use their servers and network infrastructure to host the site
The link is a referral link. Everyone I refer gets $100 credit over 60 days. I get $25 credit if you spend $25.
CloudflareCloudflare is our CDN, all http(s) requests and DNS queries for anything unscatter.com go to Cloudflare first. You can find out more about what Cloudflare logs here.
In the future I may offer some paid services, like access to an API. If/when I do, I plan to provide all of that on a seperate subdomain, not www.unscatter.com. For that I will need to collect information that I can use to identify and monitor access based on whatever monetization scheme I implement. I haven't begun to plan that at all, but adding it here now so I'm not doing an about face on privacy later.