Privacy Notice
PiTime.net is a personal site about distributed computing — the Folding@home team 53269 and related BOINC projects. It is run by Edward Reese in California, USA.
The short version. This site has no accounts, sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser, runs no analytics or advertising, and loads nothing from any other company — no fonts, no scripts, no tracking pixels. The only information it ever receives from you is what you choose to type into the contact form, and that is emailed rather than stored.
What this site does not do
- No cookies and no browser storage. Nothing is written to your browser, so there is nothing to consent to and nothing to clear.
- No accounts. There is nothing to sign up for.
- No analytics or advertising. No Google Analytics, no tag managers, no ad networks, no cross-site tracking, and nothing is sold or shared for marketing.
- No third-party requests. Every font, icon and script on this site is served from pitime.net itself. Your browser is not asked to contact anyone else, so no other company learns that you visited.
The contact form
If you send a message, the name, email address, subject and message you type are emailed to the site owner so he can read and reply to it. They are not written to any database on this site.
To stop automated abuse, the form keeps a short-lived counter of how many messages have come from a given network address in the past hour. That counter stores a one-way hashed form of the address, never the address itself, and each entry is discarded within an hour. It cannot be turned back into a list of visitors.
The message is delivered using Microsoft's email service, which the site owner uses for mail generally. Your message passes through that service in the ordinary course of being delivered.
Team statistics
The figures on the home page come from the public Folding@home statistics API. They are fetched by this server, not by your browser, and cached here for a short time. That is a deliberate choice: it means visiting this page does not reveal your visit or your IP address to Folding@home. Links to Folding@home, BOINC and individual projects are ordinary links — following one takes you to a site with its own privacy practices, which this notice does not cover.
Server logs
Like essentially every website, the web server keeps standard access logs for reliability and security — the page requested, a timestamp, and the requesting address. These are ordinary operational records, are not used to build any profile of you, and are not shared.
Children
This site is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13, or under the minimum age where you live.
Your choices
Because the site holds nothing about you beyond a message you chose to send, there is little to request. If you have written to the site owner and would like that email deleted, ask and it will be. Any privacy question can go to the same place.
Changes
If this notice changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes with it.
Contact
Use the contact form on this site.
This notice is written for transparency and describes how the site actually works. It is not legal advice.