What Statuspy stores

Reading the site

Pages are pre-rendered and served as static HTML, so simply browsing does not create a record tied to you. We set no cookies and load no third-party scripts, so nothing here follows you to another site.

Our host serves the site and, like any web host, processes the network requests needed to do that. We do not add any tracking on top of it.

If you press “recheck”

That button is the only thing on the site that writes a record, because it triggers real outbound work and has to be protected from abuse. When you press it we store:

A one-way hash of your IP address

SHA-256 of the address combined with a secret that rotates every day. The address itself is never written down, and because the secret changes daily, two hashes from different days cannot be linked back together.

A coarse network identifier

Where our host provides one, so we can tell ordinary visitors apart from datacentre traffic. It identifies a network, not a person.

The referring page

The page you arrived from, if your browser sent one.

Which service and when

So the request can be rate limited and so we can tell how often a page is being checked.

This exists to stop the button being used to hammer other people’s servers, and to see whether a page is unusually busy. It is not used to build a profile, and it is not shared with anyone.

Your theme preference

Choosing light or dark saves that choice in your browser’s local storage so the site does not flash the wrong colours on your next visit. It stays on your device, is never sent to us, and clearing your browser data removes it.

What we never collect

• Names, email addresses, or any account details, since there are no accounts
• Cookies of any kind, including analytics and advertising cookies
• Third-party trackers, pixels, or session recording
• Your raw IP address in any stored record

Third parties

The site is hosted on a commercial platform and its data is kept in a managed database, both of which process requests on our behalf in order to serve the site. We send nothing about visitors to anyone else, and we do not sell data.

We do make outbound requests to the services listed here in order to check them. Those requests come from our infrastructure and contain nothing about you.

Questions or removal requests

Because recheck records contain only a daily-rotating hash, we have no way to find records belonging to a particular person, which also means there is nothing about you for us to hand over or to lose. Anything else can be raised on the project’s issue tracker.