Privacy policy
wornkeys.dev is a personal blog run by Shailendra Karambe (WornKeys) in India. In short: this site has no ads, no analytics, no tracking cookies and no reader accounts. This page explains the few things that do involve your data, and what you can ask me to do about them.
What the site records when you visit
- Server logs. Like almost every website, the servers that host and deliver wornkeys.dev (Hostinger, including its content delivery network) record each request: your IP address, the page asked for, the date and time, your browser’s user agent and the page that linked to it. These logs keep the site running and secure, for example to spot and block abuse. They aren’t used to build profiles of readers. The host keeps them for a limited time under Hostinger’s privacy policy.
- Search. What you type into the search box becomes part of the page address, so it appears in those logs too.
- No cookies for readers. The site sets no cookies when you read it. WordPress uses cookies only for the site’s own administrator while logged in.
- Your light or dark choice. If you use the light/dark toggle, your choice is saved in your browser’s local storage (the key
wk-theme) so the site remembers it next time. It never leaves your device; clearing this site’s data in your browser removes it.
Comments (giscus and GitHub)
Comments under posts use giscus, which stores them as GitHub Discussions in a public GitHub repository. Reading comments needs no account. To comment or react, you sign in with GitHub, and what you write is published there and here together with your GitHub username and profile picture. GitHub handles your account and comments under the GitHub General Privacy Statement. You can edit or delete your comments on GitHub at any time.
When a post loads its comment section, your browser fetches the giscus widget from giscus.app and pictures from GitHub, so those services receive your IP address and the address of the page, as with any web request.
Diagrams (jsDelivr)
Some posts contain diagrams drawn with Mermaid. When a diagram comes into view, your browser loads Mermaid from the jsDelivr content delivery network (cdn.jsdelivr.net), which receives your IP address and browser details like any web request. Everything else on the site (pages, fonts, images, audio) is served from wornkeys.dev itself.
If you email me, for example at reachout-us@wornkeys.dev, I receive your email address and whatever you write. I use it only to reply and follow up. It isn’t added to any mailing list, and it’s never sold or shared. Ask me and I’ll delete our correspondence.
This site never:
- tracks visitors, runs analytics or fingerprints your browser;
- shows ads or carries advertising or social-media trackers;
- adds you to a newsletter or mailing list;
- asks you to create an account to read;
- sells or shares your personal data.
Links to LinkedIn, GitHub and other sites are plain links: nothing is loaded from them until you click, and from then on their own privacy policies apply.
Apps on the Workbench
The apps on the Workbench have their own privacy policies, on their own pages. For example: NineSquare: Sudoku privacy policy.
Your rights
You can ask me what personal data I hold about you, and ask me to correct or delete it. You can also raise a concern or complaint about how your data is handled. These rights come from India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and from similar laws where you live. Write to the address below and I’ll reply as soon as I can, and within the time the law allows. Comments live on GitHub: you can delete them there yourself, or ask me to remove them from the discussion.
Grievance contact: Shailendra Karambe, reachout-us@wornkeys.dev
Children
wornkeys.dev is a general-audience blog about software. It doesn’t knowingly collect personal data from anyone, including children.
Changes to this policy
If the site changes in a way that affects your privacy, for example a new service that receives data from your browser, this page will be updated first and the effective date changed.
Contact
Questions about this policy: reachout-us@wornkeys.dev · Contact