Privacy

What Paper Puck keeps

Nothing that says who you are. Paper Puck has no accounts and no sign-in, sets no cookies, and runs no ads and no tracking from one site to another. Every page loads only from Paper Puck itself: no outside scripts, fonts or images, which the site's security policy enforces.

How visits are counted

Paper Puck counts page views with Vercel Web Analytics, which loads from Paper Puck's own address. It sets no cookie and stores nothing in your browser.

For each page view it records the page, the site that sent you, your rough location (country, region and city, from the request), and your kind of device, its operating system and its browser. The page is its address up to the ?: the filters you chose, anything typed in the address bar and a shared dashboard after the # are never sent. Visits by automated browsers are not counted.

To tell one visitor from another for a day, Vercel works out an anonymous hash from the request and throws it away after 24 hours. Nothing in the counts identifies a reader or follows you to other sites.

What stays in your browser

A few settings are saved in your browser's local storage so they are there next time: Light, Dark or System; the columns you chose for a table; your dashboard; and your recent picks in the search. They are never sent to Paper Puck. Clearing this site's data in your browser removes them.

What the host sees

Paper Puck is served by Vercel. Like every web server, it keeps short-lived request logs (the address asked for, the time, the browser and its IP address) to keep the site running.