Usage statistics and privacy

We use basic statistics to understand which parts of the forum are useful. Page-view totals contain only the day, the general section and whether the request was signed in. They do not contain names, account IDs, IP addresses, search terms, message content, full URLs or browsing histories.

Optional visitor counts

With your permission, we use a random daily identifier in your existing browser session to estimate visiting sessions and sessions active in the last 15 minutes. We record its last activity time and whether it is signed in, without recording which account it belongs to. We do not fingerprint your device or add an analytics cookie.

Temporary identifiers are retained for today and yesterday, then removed on the next statistics collection or administrator visit. Daily totals are kept for 90 calendar days. Only administrators can view these statistics. No analytics data is sent to third-party analytics services.

Participation is optional and off by default. You can withdraw here; this removes your current temporary identifier but cannot undo counts already included in aggregate totals. Your preference lasts for this browser session. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals also disable optional session counting.

This notice describes the forum usage counter. Account information and hosting security/access logs are separate from these statistics.