Privacy policy

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The site keeps privacy-first, cookieless, aggregate visit statistics: page views, referrers and load speed. These counts tell the editors which pages are read, where visitors arrive from and how quickly pages load, so that slow pages can be fixed and unread pages reviewed. The statistics are aggregate counts: no cookies, no personal data, no cross-site tracking. The measurement does not build a profile of you, does not follow you to other websites and does not record what you type.

Like most websites, the servers that deliver these pages record requests for the purpose of security and keeping the site running. Those records are used only to detect abuse and faults and are kept for a short period.

If you write to editor@aidetectorindex.com, the editors receive your email address, the content of your message and anything you attach. The message is used to answer you and, where it contains a correction or a new study, to change the page. Your address is not added to any list, is not shared with vendors named on the site and is not sold. A correction that is accepted is logged by date, page, field and source; the log never names the person who sent it unless they ask to be credited.

Pages on this site link to vendor product pages, pricing pages, study publishers and other sites. Each of those has its own privacy policy, and this policy stops at the edge of this site.

The site is a reference for adults choosing or questioning software. It does not knowingly collect information from children, and it has no account or form through which a child could submit any.

Because the site keeps no personal data about readers, there is nothing to delete or export for a reader who has only read pages. If you have emailed the editors and want your message deleted, write to the same address and it will be removed. Questions about this policy go to editor@aidetectorindex.com.

When this policy changes, the "Updated" date at the top moves and the change is described in a line beneath this heading. Policy changes are listed here rather than in the corrections log, which is reserved for published figures.