What the hub keeps about your visit

Counting visits

It keeps nothing on your device to do it. It never keeps your address, your browser's signature or anything else that could tell one visitor from another.

For each page you open, it keeps:

• the page, and the subject it is about where it has one
• the name of the site you came from, and whether it was a search engine, an AI assistant or another site
• the country your connection comes from, as your network reports it
• the kind of device: computer, phone or tablet
• what you searched for on the hub, and whether it found anything
• how far down the page you read and how long you stayed, in broad bands
• the name of any site you leave the hub for
• the hour of the visit, never the minute

If your browser sends the Global Privacy Control signal, the hub does not count your visit.

You can ask the hub not to count your visits from this browser. Do not count me

Following your path, if you accept

If you agree, the hub keeps a random identifier in your browser's local storage, so that it can follow your path through the hub across visits. The identifier is made at that moment and drawn from nothing about you. The hub sets no cookie. If you decline, or choose nothing, it keeps only your choice.

Under that identifier, for each page you open, it keeps:

• the identifier, the number of the visit and the order of the page in that visit
• the page, and the subject it is about, with its type, standard and methodology where it has them
• how far down the page you read and how long you stayed, in broad bands
• what you searched for on the hub, and what you searched for just before it in the same visit
• the name of any site you leave the hub for
• when you download a file
• the hour, never the minute

To show what you chose, it keeps a note of your choice: the identifier, whether you accepted or withdrew, the hour, the version of the words you agreed to, the page's language and the country of your connection. A decline is kept with no identifier, only to count how many visitors accept.

It never keeps your address, your browser's signature, a recording of your screen or a fingerprint of your device.

Your choice holds for 6 months. After that, the hub asks you again.

If your browser sends the Global Privacy Control signal, the hub takes it as a decline and does not ask.

You can withdraw your agreement at any time. Withdrawing stops this at once and removes the identifier from your browser.

When you withdraw, you can also ask for everything kept under the identifier to be deleted. The hub deletes it straight away.

What you tell the hub, if you give your details

Where the hub offers a form that asks for your e-mail address and a few details about you, in exchange for something you ask for, such as a download or an answer, it keeps them only if you tick the box that agrees to it, in that form, at that moment.

It keeps:

• your e-mail address, as you wrote it, and the same address in lower case, to find your details again
• your organisation, if you give it
• the type of your organisation, chosen from a short list, if you choose
• your role, if you give it
• your country, chosen from the list of countries, if you choose one
• what you say you are interested in, if you say
• why you use the hub, chosen from a short list, if you choose
• what you asked for in exchange, such as the name of a download
• when you gave your details, rounded down to the hour
• the version of the words you agreed to, and the page's language

It keeps them to know who uses the hub and why, to answer what you asked for, and so that the people who run the hub can write to you about it.

Only the people who run this hub, and DAAC, see them. No one else receives them, and they never leave this hub.

Each time you give your details, they are kept apart from any you gave before, for 24 months from that day, then deleted. Giving them again changes none of those given before.

The hub never works out who you are from your connection's address or from your device. It keeps only what you write in the form.

If the hub follows your path through it, because you accepted in the banner, the form also offers a second box, to join your details to what the hub saw of your visits. It is never ticked for you, the form works without it, and you can undo it at any time: the hub then keeps your details and stops joining them to your visits. Withdrawing your agreement in Your choices undoes it too.

You can see what is held, undo the join, or withdraw your agreement and have your details deleted.

• With the key the form showed you when you sent it, on the page My details. Each key opens only the details sent with it.
• From the browser whose visits you joined, with the button below or on the page My details, for all the details joined to that browser.
• By asking on the page My details with your e-mail address alone, for all the details given under that address. The hub then answers by e-mail, to that address only, and shows nothing on the page. For a deletion, the hub first writes to that address and deletes nothing until you answer from it.

Withdrawing your agreement deletes at once the details you opened, with their join. A deletion asked by e-mail deletes all the details given under that address, once you have confirmed it from that address. The hub keeps only a note that a deletion was made, with nothing that names you.

My details, to see, unjoin or delete what you gave