Privacy
What we keep, and how to delete it
HiveBoard is made by Zeinab H. Fard. This page is about this website. The program itself is covered in the last two sections: it sends us nothing, unless you write to us from it and press Send.
What the download form keeps
- Your email address, your institution, and your name if you gave one.
- Whether news emails are on for you, and when and how that was last set.
- When you filled in the form, and which files you downloaded and when.
- Whether the link we emailed was opened, which tells us the address is read by its owner.
What it is for
- To give you the download link, on screen and by email.
- To know how many people, at which institutions, use HiveBoard. That is what we report when we write about it.
- To write to you now and then with HiveBoard news: new versions and fixes.
We do not sell it, share it, or use it for anything else.
News emails
They are on when you register, unless you untick the box on the form, which says so. They are about HiveBoard and nothing else. Every message, the first one included, has a link that stops them, and so does your download page: it opens a page with one button. Once stopped they stay stopped, also if you register again; only you can turn them back on, from the same link.
One exception: if a version you downloaded turns out to have a fault that puts your work or your accounts at risk, we may write to you about that fault even if your news emails are off. It says which version, and why you are getting it.
What this site does not do
- No cookies, no analytics, no scripts from other companies.
- We do not store your IP address. Cloudflare, which hosts the site, handles requests as any web host does. To stop reports from being sent in floods, we count how many arrive from one connection in a day under a code made from its address that cannot be turned back into it; the count is deleted the next day.
Where it is, and for how long
In a database at Cloudflare, until you delete it. A download link stops working after 7 days; the record of who registered stays.
Deleting it
Every email we send has a delete the record link, and so does your download page. It removes your name, address and institution and cancels your links, at once. The count of downloads stays, with nothing in it that says who.
The program
HiveBoard runs on your own computer and talks to the servers you add — and, if you switch its assistant on, to the AI service you give it a key for. It has no account with us and sends us nothing by itself: not your servers, not your jobs, not that you are running it.
A report you send from the program
From version 0.1.4, HiveBoard has a page for writing to us: Settings, Report a problem. Nothing on it is sent until you press Send. What is sent is what that page shows you:
- what you wrote, and whether it is a problem, a question or an idea;
- your email address, only if you gave one so that we can answer;
- the end of HiveBoard's connection log, only if you ticked the box — shown to you in full first, and yours to cut. It names your servers and your user names on them; it never holds a password, a code or a key;
- which HiveBoard sent it: its version, which of the two builds, and your operating system.
We keep it for a year, then it is deleted, and it is read by the people who make HiveBoard. Your address is used to answer you and for nothing else; we never send mail to it otherwise. To have a report deleted sooner, send another one saying so, with the reference the first one was given.