Privacy

In short

This website has no analytics, no advertising and no visitor accounts, and it sets no cookies of its own. Apart from the IP addresses that our host, GitHub, records for security, most pages can be read without anything about you being stored or sent.

Analytics

None

Advertising

None

Cookies of its own

None

Visitor accounts

None

What every visit involves

• Hosting. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. GitHub logs the IP address of every visitor for security purposes, whether or not the visitor is signed in to GitHub. GitHub’s privacy statement explains how GitHub handles that information. The site does not report visits to the lab.
• Fonts, styles, scripts and images. These are served from dimmslab.org itself.
• Light or dark, and paused animations. If you switch between the light and dark themes, or pause one of the site’s animations, your choice is saved in your own browser so that the site remembers it. It is not sent to the lab or to anyone else.

Parts of the site that contact other services

• The meeting schedule. The Activities page and the lab’s meeting pages read the schedule from Cloud Firestore, a database service run by Google, and the meeting pages load Google’s software for it. When you open those pages, your browser contacts Google.
• The Live Hub. It also loads a mathematics typesetting library, KaTeX, from the jsDelivr network. Slides shown during a session are loaded from Google Slides or Google Drive, and Google may set its own cookies when they load.
• The map. The map on the Contact page comes from Google Maps. It is loaded only when you ask for it, and Google may set its own cookies when it loads.
• Links. Pages link to journals, Google Scholar, LinkedIn, X, Zoom and other sites, which have their own privacy practices. The research radar lists papers and news published elsewhere. It is compiled automatically on GitHub’s servers and uses no information about visitors.

What lab members enter on the meeting pages

The meeting schedule, the Live Hub and the lab archive are tools for members of the lab. They are opened with a name and an access code shared within the lab, not with personal accounts or passwords.

• Signing in to the schedule or the archive. The name you enter and your role are saved in your own browser, so that you stay signed in on that device until you sign out.
• Signing up for a meeting. When a member signs up to present or to lead trivia, the name is saved in the schedule and shown on the public schedule page.
• Joining a live session. The name you enter, your role and the time you joined are saved with the session, together with your trivia answers and score and any questions you send. Polls record that you have voted and add your choice to the totals. Others in the session can see names, scores and questions.
• The archive. A host can save a trivia game’s questions and its leaderboard of names and scores. Presentations are saved with the presenter’s name, the title, the date and a link to the slides.

This information is stored in Cloud Firestore. It stays there until a host resets the session or an administrator of the lab deletes it.

Questions

Write to info@dimmslab.org.