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the original headers are not stored).</li> <li>Screen size.</li> <li>Country and region name derived from the IP address.</li> <li>The browser language derived from the <code>Accept-Language</code> header.</li> </ul> <p>There is a setting to disable collecting any of this data and the collected data may differ per hosted site, but the default is to collect all of the above except the language.</p> <p>No personal information (such as IP address) is collected; a hash of the IP address, User-Agent, and a random number (“salt”) is kept in the process memory for 8 hours to identify a browsing session, and is never stored to disk.</p> <p>There is no information stored in the browser with cookies, localStorage, or other methods.</p> <p>Also see the <a href="/help/gdpr">GDPR consent notices</a>.</p> <h2 id="sharing-with-third-parties-470">Sharing with third parties <a href="#sharing-with-third-parties-470"></a></h2> <p>No information is shared with third parties.</p> <h2 id="using-the-goatcounter-com-service-470">Using the GoatCounter.com service <a href="#using-the-goatcounter-com-service-470"></a></h2> <p>An email address is required to use the GoatCounter.com service. GoatCounter also use cookies to:</p> <ul> <li>remember that you’re logged in to your account between visits;</li> <li>store short-lived informational messages (“flash messages”), for example to inform that an operation was completed or that there was an error.</li> </ul> <p>Email <a href="mailto:support@goatcounter.coms">support@goatcounter.com</a> to request all information collected about you, or to request removal of all information.</p> <h2 id="changes-to-the-policy-470">Changes to the policy <a href="#changes-to-the-policy-470"></a></h2> <p>We may make changes to this policy with at least two weeks notice. Notice will be sent to the email on file for your account.</p> </div> <h2 style="border:0; margin-bottom: .2rem; margin-left: .5rem;">Questions or problems?</h2> <div class="page-code"> <p style="margin-top: 0">Feel free to get in touch if you’ve got any questions or having any problems; a lot of times they can be resolved without too much problems.</p> <p>Ways to contact me: <a href="#" class="show-contact">show</a> </p> <div style="display: none;" class="contact"> <ul> <li>Open a <a href="https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter/issues/new">GitHub issue</a>. 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