Privacy and analytics

What the tods-validate website sends to Google Analytics, what it never sends, and how to turn analytics off. This covers the website only. The command-line tool, the GitHub Action, the pre-commit hook, the Docker image and the editor extension send nothing to Google Analytics, and validation itself makes no network requests.

Your feed files stay in your browser

The playground validates the files you choose on your own machine, with Pyodide. It does not upload them, store them, or send them to Google Analytics. The validation report is never sent anywhere either.

Google Analytics

The playground, the rule catalog and this page use Google Analytics 4, a service of Google LLC in the United States, to count visits. For each page you view, Google Analytics receives:

• the page address, with everything after a ? or # removed;
• the page title;
• the domain of the site that linked you here, if any, and never the full address;
• your browser, device type, screen size, and language; and
• an approximate location that Google works out from your IP address. Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses.

It may also record how far you scroll, and when you click a link that leaves this site.

Google signals and ad personalization are turned off. The advertising consent signals (ad storage, ad user data, and ad personalization) are denied for every visitor. Google keeps this data for 14 months.

Cookies

Outside the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Google Analytics sets two first-party cookies, _ga and _ga_TM683Q87RD. They tell a returning browser apart from a new one and last up to two years.

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, analytics storage is denied, so Google Analytics sets no cookie. Google still receives a measurement without a cookie identifier for each page you view.

How to turn analytics off

Google Analytics does not load if your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track.

You can also use the Opt out of analytics button at the bottom of any page on this site. The choice is saved in this browser's local storage as tods-validate:analytics-opt-out, not in a cookie. It covers this browser on this device only, and clearing this site's data removes it. Opting out does not delete Google Analytics cookies that were already set; you can delete those in your browser settings.

Hosting and more information

GitHub Pages hosts this site. GitHub may process request details, such as your IP address, to serve and protect the pages. Read how Google uses information from sites that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy.