Privacy
Who is responsible
Patrick Bartels
Weserstieg 2
21079 Hamburg
Germany
E-mail: Patrick.Bartels@gmail.com
The application
UptimeLogger runs entirely on your own machine. It has no user account, no backend and no analytics. Everything it records — connection events, settings, the log file — is stored in a local database on your device and is never transmitted anywhere.
The application makes three kinds of outbound requests. The first two happen on their own; the third happens only when you press a button.
- Connection probes. TCP connections to the servers configured in the settings (by default public DNS resolvers), used solely to determine whether your internet connection is up. They carry no data about you or about the application.
- Version check. If left switched on, the application requests a small static file from this website to find out whether a newer version exists. The request contains no identifier, no usage data and no information about your installation; as with any web request, the hosting provider sees your IP address (see below). The check can be switched off in the settings.
- Speed test. Only when you start it from the dashboard. The application transfers up to about 190 megabytes to and from a speed-test provider — speed.cloudflare.com, operated by Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA — in order to measure the available bandwidth of your line. How much is actually transferred depends on the line: a slow connection is measured with ten megabytes and stops there, a fast one needs more before the figure means anything. The transferred data carries no information about you or about the application; as with any web request, the provider sees your IP address, and it is processed in the United States. The address can be changed in the settings, and the test never runs on a schedule: nothing is transferred unless you ask for it. The result is stored locally in the same database as everything else.
This website
This site is hosted on GitLab Pages, operated by GitLab Inc., 268 Bush Street no. 350, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA. The downloads are served from GitHub Releases, operated by GitHub, Inc., 88 Colin P. Kelly Jr. Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. When you open a page, GitLab processes technical connection data; when you start a download, GitHub does — including your IP address, the time of the request, the page requested, and browser and operating system details — in server log files. This is necessary to deliver the site and serves our legitimate interest in operating and securing it (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Details are in GitLab's privacy statement and GitHub's privacy statement. Data may be processed in the United States.
This site sets no cookies and embeds no third-party fonts. It loads one script: a cookie-free visitor counter, GoatCounter, operated by Martin Tournoij, Ireland, on servers of Hetzner Online GmbH in Finland and Germany. For each page view and each click on a download button it keeps only totals per day — the page, where the visit came from, browser and operating system, screen width, language, and the country derived from the IP address. The IP address itself is not stored, nothing is placed on your device, and the totals cannot be traced back to a person. We use it to see which pages are read and which download is chosen — our legitimate interest in running the site (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Details are in GoatCounter's privacy policy.
The “Buy me a coffee” button is a link. Its picture belongs to Buy Me a Coffee but is served from this site, so nothing is requested from them until you click it — and only then does your browser contact them, under their privacy policy.
Your rights
You have the right to information about, correction of, deletion of and restriction of the processing of your personal data, the right to object to processing and the right to data portability (Art. 15–21 GDPR), as well as the right to complain to a supervisory authority. Use the e-mail address above to exercise them.