Disclaimer & Privacy Policy – pussy-hosting.berlin

Who we are

Our website address is: https://pussy-hosting.berlin/.

We are no business and offer no service nor any product. The whole project is meant for personal use only.

As well as it might look professional, it is (hopefully). This is intentional, since we are IT professionals. Thus does not mean, it could be of any use for others.

Since the internet isn’t that land of milk and honey, say: a lot of rules came up, we want to make things very clear:

The whole site including every component is privately owned.
No business, no shop, no products, no services, no buying, no selling.
Due to no service, also no contracts, whatsoever.

Everything seen (and also working under the hood) here is driven by 100% Open Source Software with a range of licenses though, but all are GPL, LGPL, Apache License or very similar. Leave a request at the contact form, if you really need to know what’s up. Every “content” aside the software packages is written or painted or photographed by ourselves or acquired from sources who publish under permissive Creative Commons licenses.

To make this also very clear, we:

Do no use any non-CC licensed media.
Do not use any copyrighted material.
Have no map or an image of a map on the site.
Do not bother anyone with spam- or bulk- or emails at all.
Do not load any fonts, scripts or stylesheets from external (3rd. party) sources.

So, if you are an warning attourney and see anything wrong, please leave a note at the contact form or (even better) leave the whole site. It hasn’t been made for you. We are no lawyers, we use common sense and basic knowledge to avoid any conflict.

Visit the site, take what you want, have fun! But do not expect any availability or uptime. Maybe compare it with walking on free landscape. Pick an apple from a tree, enjoy swimming in a lake, but do not ask for change clothes 🙂

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

This website is made with WordPress and uses lots of standard features. Indeed, it uses a cookie to authenticate users at the backend (me for example, since I’m writing this text). A usual website visitor also get’s this technical “unique” cookie set. We cannot and do not identify anyone with that cookie.

An additional plugin has been installed on this particular website to have a choice to opt-out or -in for other cookies. Well, there are no other cookies on the site, the choice can be made, if intentionelly or accidentaly an external source is included in the future. This is highly unlikely, but the cookie selection could be seen as a “pre-opt-out”.

Additionally, the webservers running this site, do have an so called access.log, which is pretty standard for webservers. The logfiles contain a timestamp, a pseudonymized part of the requesting (your) IP (IPv4: 24 out of 32bit, IPv6: 32 out of 128 bit), the visited Site (the URL as usually seen at the top of the browser) and the “User-Agent” (the name and sometimes version of the respective browser). Only the IP might be guessed to match a natural person.

These logfiles are stored for less than eight days and are only meant for technical purposes. To be very exact: no logs for proxied or static content are produced, only for dynamically generated content.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Every information you enter into the contact form, is stored in locally accessable database-cluster which the webservers necessarily are connected to. Additionally, the author’s IP and the browser user agent string are stored in the very same dataset. You are encouraged to not provide the contact formular any private data.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will be stored for a maximum of one year in your browser. If not deleted or expired, the webserver will identify the content and subsequently link the already given data to this profile.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. This website uses all standards to recommend the browsers not to send data to other sources, but finally, this is outside the scope of a webserver.

Analytics

There are no additional internal or external analytic- and/or behaviour-tracking- and/or “experience optimization”-tools installed. The built-ins of WordPress have been disabled and stripped down by best knowledge.

Who we share your data with

Data you enter at the contact form will be kept private but not additionally be encrypted.

Data you enter via comments, or content pages is depending on your access-rights directly visible to the public or visible after an audit. This is the nature of a public content or a public comment. We encourage you, to not write any prvate data into comments or other content areas of this site you might have access to.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information. This site uses a centralized backend authentication authority, which stores the set of entered data as well. If you do not want your data stored at our site, we encourage you to enter anonymous or pseudonymous information only.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account at this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

We do not accept any illegal or offensive content. If we get aware of it by audit or notice, we will remove the content. This site is no public forum nor is it meant to be a platform for sharing or providing any views or opinions aside the technical purpose of this platform.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. This is currently disabled due to own concerns about privacy. It might be enabled again without further note, but only as a last ressort to prevent spam.

Your contact information

You do not need to enter any contact information. Since we do not offer any service, it isn’t neccessary for any kind of interaction. In fact, you do not need to enter any data at all.

Additional information

How we protect your data

As written, there is absolutely no need to provide data. Technically if any data is provided, it is stored in a private accessible database cluster. Account informations, neccessary to login to this site and services are stored in a private accessible authentication authority.

What data breach procedures we have in place

We run monitoring systems which provides technical issues like traffic peaks. Accounts will be locked after login attempts with wrong credentials. Some accounts will be locked and automatically unlocked after three days without any further wrong attempt. Other accounts, like the accounts used for this particular website are locked indefinitely. Nonetheless, it should be impossible to get an account locked by wrong crendtials since the whole login procedure is locked from public access anyway.

As this is no business, we do our day-to-day-work and do not have the time or ressources to be on-site at any time. We need to relay on technical sensors to get us aware of anything happening.