Privacy policy

Short version: this site collects nothing that could identify you.

The two numbers in the footer

The footer shows how many people are reading now and how many visits there have been in total. Telling one reader from another, so that refreshing a page does not count twice, needs something that stays the same for a few minutes. That is a one-way hash of your IP address and browser name mixed with a secret that changes every day.

The IP address itself is never written down. The hash is deleted thirty minutes after your last page, and because the secret changes daily it cannot be matched to you tomorrow or to anything else. No cookie is set, nothing is stored in your browser, and no record is kept of which pages you read. What survives is one number going up.

Cookies

The site sets no cookies of its own and runs no analytics tracker.

An outside chart

The Dhaka B1/B2 chart on the home page is loaded in a frame fromvisastat.us. It is not part of this site, so opening that page also reaches their server. The referrer is withheld and the frame is sandboxed.

YouTube videos

Videos embedded in articles load from youtube-nocookie.com, so YouTube sets no tracking cookie until you press play. Once you do, YouTube's own privacy policy applies.

Fonts

Fonts are served from this site, not from Google or any other third party. Your IP address never reaches a font server while you read a page here.

Contact

There is no form on this site, so nothing is collected from you. To get in touch, post in the Facebook group or message the page.