From 858fea27774d830758e2f633c06b22f4dd52a6aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ashley Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2025 13:57:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] REVERT: update privacy policy --- html/priv.ejs | 206 +++++++++++++++++--------------------------------- 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 135 deletions(-) diff --git a/html/priv.ejs b/html/priv.ejs index 381bf6c8..89ba029d 100644 --- a/html/priv.ejs +++ b/html/priv.ejs @@ -355,7 +355,6 @@
  • Translate Page (SimplyTranslate)
  • Third-Party Requests & Proxy
  • API Logs Policy
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  • Server Admin Tool: poke-nginx-analytics
  • Legal Bases (GDPR)
  • Your Rights
  • Data Retention
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    Poke Privacy Policy

    -We don’t collect personal data about you. No telemetry, no trackers, no profiling. The only “analytics” we ship is an optional poke-nginx-analytics script for server admins — and it runs locally, never phones home, and just reads your own logs. Because Poke is free software, you can check the source, self-host, and audit everything yourself. + We don’t collect any data about you. No telemetry, no trackers! Because Poke is free software, you can also check the source and self-host.

    Instance: poketube.fun - Version date: + Version date:

    - What’s New — Policy Updates - October 3, 2025 + What’s New — Policy Update + September 28, 2025

    - Added a section for our server-admin script poke-nginx-analytics. TL;DR: it’s local-only, read-only, and configurable for privacy (IP masking, bot filtering). Source code is linked. + We clarified how third-party requests work waaay better! Highlights:

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  • Weather pages: Open-Meteo forecasts are always proxied by our backend. Nominatim geocoding is proxied. Source links are provided for both flows.
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    + Review weather changes + +
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    Preamble

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    - Welcome to Poke’s Privacy Policy. We don’t collect personal data about you, we don’t run telemetry, and we don’t track you around the web. - The only “analytics” involved is an optional poke-nginx-analytics script for server operators, which runs locally on their own machines, - never phones home, and only summarizes their own access logs. - Poke is free software you can read, remix, and run yourself. -

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    TL;DR

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    • No personal data collected. nothing about you is stored.
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    • No telemetry. We don’t phone home.
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    • No third-party trackers. Yippe!!
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    • YouTube can’t see what you watch here. It’s all done on the backend.
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    • Poke Account: no email required, no personal info needed.
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    • Poke Maps: uses OpenStreetMap data; tile servers have their own privacy rules.
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    • Optional server admin tool: poke-nginx-analytics is local-only, read-only, and never sends data anywhere.
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    • No required cookies. Preferences (like theme or layout) may live in local storage on your device.
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    Preamble

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    + Welcome to Poke’s Privacy Policy. We don’t collect data about you and we don’t run telemetry. Poke is free software you can read, remix, and run yourself. +

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    Not legal advice lol

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    TL;DR

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    • No data collected. at all!!
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    • No telemetry. We don’t phone home.
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    • No third-party trackers. Yippe!!
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    • YouTube can’t see what you watch here. Its all done on the backend.
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    • Poke Account: no email required, no personal info needed.
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    • Poke Maps: uses OpenStreetMap data; map tiles/attribution may have separate privacy rules depending on the tile server you use.
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    • No required cookies. Preferences (like theme or layout) may live in local storage on your device.
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    Third-Party Requests & Proxy

    - Where external services are necessary (maps, weather, translation), Poke uses server-side proxying to avoid exposing your browser directly. - We don’t inject trackers into proxied calls. External services have their own privacy terms that apply to those specific requests. + We rely on the community-run + SimplyTranslate service (a privacy-friendly + translation front-end). SimplyTranslate is a free software project: you can see the + source code and its + legal notice. + Our backend integration is handled in + + Poke’s server code + .

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    API Logs Policy

    - When you request any resource from the Poke API (for example: thumbnails, API endpoint) information about the request may be logged. + When you request any resource from the poke api (for example: thumbnails, API endpoint) information about the request may be logged.

    Information about a request is limited to:

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    Server Admin Tool: poke-nginx-analytics

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    - We ship an optional, admin-side shell script to help operators understand IPv4/IPv6 traffic and status codes from their own servers’ Nginx access logs. - It’s free software and lives here: - - backend-services/scripts/poke-nginx-analytics.sh - . -

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    - Privacy : the script is local-only and read-only. It makes no network requests, writes no files by default, and sends nothing anywhere. It just reads the log files you point it at and prints aggregate counts to your terminal. -
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    What it reads from your logs

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    - The script parses standard Nginx access logs (including rotated .1 and compressed .gz) using the fields already present in your log format: -

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    It does not collect any new data, fingerprint users, or correlate logs with other sources.

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    How it decides “success” vs “fail”

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    What it outputs (to your terminal)

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    How it works (under the hood)

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