Privacy Policy

Last updated: 6 November 2026.

This is the privacy policy for the POLYROB project website (polyrob.dev), an informational site published by The Selfrule Organization. The mint site 6551.polyrob.dev has its own privacy notice.

What we collect

The site is static and does not ask you to sign in. We do not collect names, emails, or accounts. We count visits in three ways:

• Our own visit counter (/api/v, no cookies). Each page sends its path, the name of the site that linked to it (no full address), a campaign tag (utm_source) if the link had one, and the country that Cloudflare sees. We do not store your IP address. A visitor number is made from a one-way hash of a secret, the date, your IP address and browser, so it changes every day and cannot identify you. Kept 3 months.
• Cloudflare Web Analytics (no cookies): page loads, page speed, the linking site and the country.
• Google Analytics (cookies), as described below.

The install count

We count installs so that we know whether people can install POLYROB. Two counters exist:

• Installer downloads — when install.sh is fetched, a daily counter goes up by one for the kind of client: curl, wget, browser or other.
• Completed installs — when a fresh install works, the installer sends one request with the POLYROB version, the OS (Linux or macOS) and the install method. A re-run, an update, a pip install and a CI run send nothing.

We store daily totals only. We do not store an IP address, a user-agent string, a path, a host name or any ID, so we cannot tell one install from another. Cloudflare still sees each request as our host, as described below. The installer says this before it starts its work. To turn the second counter off, use --no-telemetry or set DO_NOT_TRACK=1:

curl -fsSL https://polyrob.dev/install.sh | bash -s -- --no-telemetry

Cookies and your choice

Google Analytics sets first-party cookies (_ga, _ga_*, kept up to 2 years) and records page views, an approximate location, device and browser type, and clicks on a few page parts: the install command copy button, links to GitHub, links to 6551.polyrob.dev and the install link in a blog post. We set no advertising cookies and never grant ad storage.

• In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google Analytics runs only after you click Accept. If you click Reject or do nothing, no analytics cookies are set.
• In other countries, Google Analytics is on when you arrive. The cookie bar tells you so. Click OK to keep it, or Manage and switch Analytics off; then we delete the _ga cookies and set no new ones.

Your choice is saved in your browser (localStorage, key polyrob.consent). To change it at any time, use Cookie settings, also in the page footer.

Third parties

• Hosting / CDN — the site is served by a static host (e.g. Cloudflare Pages), which may log standard request metadata (IP, user-agent) for security and delivery.
• Documentation — the docs pages fetch Markdown directly from the project's public GitHub repository; your browser contacts GitHub to load it.
• Analytics — Google Analytics (Google LLC) receives page-view data as described above. Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc.) runs Web Analytics and stores our own visit count. You can block it with a browser setting or the Google Analytics opt-out add-on.
• Fonts — web fonts load from Google Fonts.

These providers have their own privacy policies governing any data they process.

The software is separate

POLYROB itself is self-hosted software you run on your own infrastructure with your own keys and data. Apart from the install count above, this policy covers only the website. What your self-hosted POLYROB instance does with data is under your control and governed by your own configuration.

Changes

We may update this policy as the project evolves; the current version always lives here.

Questions: The Selfrule Organization.