Privacy

In short: this website sets no cookies (unless you ask it to stop counting your visits, see below), shows no ads, doesn't follow you around other websites, and never sells or shares anything about your visit.

Visit statistics

We'd like to know how many people visit this website, how they found it, and which pages they find most interesting. For this we use Matomo, an open-source analytics platform built around privacy, set up so that:

No cookies are placed. We can't recognise you between visits, or between our websites, so there's nothing to ask your permission for.
Your IP address is anonymised. Its last part is removed, so it can't be traced back to you, and the rest is only used to tell roughly where visits come from.
We note which website sent you here. If you arrive through a link, we record the address of the page you came from, including a search term if that site passes one on, so we can see which listings and sites bring visitors. We don't follow you to other websites or build a profile of you.
Everything stays in the EU, in a datacenter in Lisbon.

A visit in our statistics looks like this: the date and time, an anonymised IP address (such as 192.168.1.?), a rough location (such as Lisbon, Portugal), the website that sent you here (such as alternativeto.net, or Direct Entry if you typed the address), your browser, operating system and device type, and your screen resolution.

Visits to the documentation under /docs/ are counted the same way.

On the home page we also count what happens in the demo conversation with Martin the owl: which answers are chosen, whether the typing animation is skipped, and whether the “Get started” button is clicked. These counts are part of the same anonymous visit and can't be traced back to you.

If you'd rather not be counted at all, you can opt out here. Your choice is remembered with one small cookie, which only says that you opted out.

Server logs

Like every web server, the server hosting this website keeps standard access logs (IP address, the page requested, and the time). These are used only to keep the website secure and running.

Email

If you email us, we use your address and message only to reply to you.

Other websites

Links to other websites, such as GitHub, Bluesky, or our contributors' websites, take you to services with privacy policies of their own.

Who we are, and your rights

This website is run by Fruit Tree Labs Creative Technology, LDA, in Portugal. You can ask us what we know about your visits, or ask us to delete it, by emailing info@dialoguebranch.com. If you're unhappy with how we handle your data, you can also complain to the Portuguese data protection authority, the CNPD.