Your privacy

This site is hosted in the UK - to the extent that laws apply online, the UK's laws probably apply the most.

Summary

• We use session cookies to remember whether to give you mobile templates or not
• We log HTTP requests like everyone else
• We won't identify you personally or track you between visits

What we do with the information we record

• We keep access logs for 12 months, and occasionally run it through web-stats software so we can see (for example) how many people visit our site, what the most popular pages are, who's linking to us, etc.
• The site itself uses what it knows about your make and model of web browser to format pages so that they're as readable as possible on your device (whether that is a desktop PC running Firefox, or a mobile phone running Opera Mobile). It only remembers this information for as long as your visit lasts - when you quit your browser, it deletes the session cookie and this breaks any link between your browser and the information linked to it on our server.
• Logs may also be used forensically if, for example, our site is attacked.

Session cookies

The web server you are visiting hands out a session cookie, which your web browser will return with each request. This allows the site to identify your browser until the cookie expires. Our session cookies are set to expire when you close your browser. Session cookies are used by almost every site you visit - if a site has a login feature, then it needs to use session cookies.

This site needs to remember what kind of template to show you (desktop or mobile), so it uses a session cookie. In other words, it's nothing to worry about, but we tell you as a courtesy so that you can make your own choice about whether to stay here. We ask that you don't disable cookies, because it will slightly increase the load on our server, and you won't be able to choose the kind of view you get.

Server logs

In addition to the session cookie, each web request is logged to a file by the web server. This is industry standard procedure, and the information recorded is not personally identifying. Access logs are stored for 12 months and may be used to identify illegal activity (i.e., if we get hacked) and to identify usage trends. When we perform statistical analysis on our access logs, we examine activity in aggregate, not individually, so any information we gather from you will not be used in a context that identifies you personally, but rather the groups into which you fit according to what we're looking at. For example, we may try to find out how many people download our symfony plugins - it makes us feel good to see our stuff is being used - but we won't try to find out who those people are.

What goes into server logs?

• Time and date of your visit
• IP address your request was made from (may be a proxy or router, rather than your own machine)
• The "user-agent" that identifies the web browser software you are using (e.g. Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, Safari, etc.)
• The item (page, image, stylesheet) that you are requesting, including any form data that becomes part of the web address (aka GET data - the movie search field is one example)
• The context in which you are making that request (that is, the page your browser is at when it makes that request - this is also known as a "referrer header")
• The amount of data transferred

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