DataCenterDialog.com is a personal project of its founder, Scott Goldman. This page explains, in plain language, what the site collects and what it doesn’t.
What we don’t do
- No advertising, ad trackers or social-media tracking pixels.
- No accounts, sign-ups or passwords for visitors.
- We never sell, rent or share personal information.
Page-view counts
To know which pages are useful, the site counts page views. For each view it records the page, the date and time, the website that linked to us (if any), the visitor’s country, and whether the device is a phone, tablet or computer.
To count unique visitors without storing internet (IP) addresses, the site turns each address into a scrambled code that can’t be turned back into the address. We never store the address itself. Automated traffic such as search-engine robots is not counted. Only the founder can see these statistics.
Messages you send us
When you use the Contact the Founder form, we receive the subject and message you write, plus your name and email address if you choose to give them. Messages are stored in the site’s private database and emailed to the founder. Your email address is used only to reply to you; it is never published or shared. To have a message deleted, ask through the same form.
Stored on your device
The site saves one small note in your browser so the welcome message appears only on your first visit. It contains no personal information. The site sets no tracking cookies.
Services that help run the site
Like most websites, this one relies on outside services, which receive your device’s internet address when they deliver content to you:
- Cloudflare hosts the site, delivers its pages and stores contact messages and page-view counts.
- Google Fonts supplies the site’s typefaces.
- OpenFreeMap (map tiles) and unpkg (map software) power the Tracker map.
If you use the map’s “find sites near me” button, your location is used only in your browser to center the map; it is never sent to us.
Children
The site is meant for a general adult audience and does not knowingly collect information from children.
Changes and questions
If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and its date. Questions? Use the Contact the Founder form.