Privacy policy

The short version

This site collects nothing about you directly. There are no accounts, no forms, no analytics, no tracking pixels, and no cookies. I have no idea who visits, and no way to find out.

That said, loading any web page means your browser makes requests to servers, and those servers see your IP address. That's how the web works, and it's what the rest of this page is about.

What this site collects

Nothing. There is no database, no back end, and no code on this site that records anything about you.

No accounts — there's nothing to sign up for.
No forms — there's nowhere to type anything that gets sent anywhere.
No analytics — no Google Analytics, Plausible, Fathom, or anything similar.
No cookies and no local storage — see the Cookie Policy.

The browser projects on this site (the planet, the games) run entirely in your browser. Whatever you do in them stays on your machine and is gone when you close the tab.

Photos you open in Darkroom are never uploaded. Your browser decodes them and your GPU edits them, inside the tab. Exports are saved straight to your device. Nothing about the photos, including their location data, is sent anywhere.

Hosting and server logs

This site is hosted on GitHub Pages. When you load a page, GitHub's servers deliver it, and like essentially every web host, GitHub logs technical request data — including your IP address — for security and abuse prevention.

I don't have access to those logs. GitHub's handling of that data is covered by the GitHub Privacy Statement.

Third-party assets

Some pages load files from other people's servers. Those servers necessarily see your IP address and browser user-agent in order to send the file back. None of them are analytics services, and none of them set cookies here — but they do see the request.

Service	What it serves, and where
Google Fonts `fonts.googleapis.com`, `fonts.gstatic.com`	The Inter, Fraunces and DM Mono typefaces. Used on every page.
GitHub `github.com`, `api.github.com`	My profile picture on the front page, and public repository data on some project pages.
unpkg and cdnjs `unpkg.com`, `cdnjs.cloudflare.com`	JavaScript libraries used by some of the browser projects.
Babylon.js `cdn.babylonjs.com`	The 3D engine that renders Project Planet, in the archive.
three.js `threejs.org`	The built-in Earth, cloud and night-lights textures the archived Project Planet shows while it loads.
Modrinth `api.modrinth.com`	Live download and follower counts for my Minecraft mods on the front page. The mod icons themselves are hosted on this site.
NASA GIBS `gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov`	Satellite imagery for the archived Project Planet: the Blue Marble and Black Marble maps, and yesterday's cloud cover from the NOAA-20 and NOAA-21 satellites.

If you'd rather not load these, a content blocker will stop them. The pages will look worse but mostly still work.

What this site never does

Sell or share data about you — there isn't any to sell.
Build a profile of you, or track you across other sites.
Show advertising.
Send you email. I don't have your address.

Your rights

Data-protection laws like the GDPR and UK GDPR give you rights over personal data held about you — to access it, correct it, delete it, or object to its use.

For this website, I hold no personal data about you, so there is nothing for me to show you or delete. If you want to exercise those rights against the server logs, that request goes to GitHub, since they're the ones holding them.

If you use my Discord bots, that's different and there is data — see the Bot Privacy Policy, which explains how to get it removed.

Changes to this policy

If I ever add analytics, a form, or anything that collects data, I'll update this page before it goes live and change the date in the footer. I have no plans to.

Questions about this page? Ask in the Discord support server, or open an issue on GitHub.