Privacy policy

The person responsible for this website under the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and, where it applies, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

Lorenzo Sivillica
hello@openore.org

Write to this address for any question about your data or to use the rights listed below.

The site is hosted by Vercel Inc. (United States). To deliver a page, Vercel's servers process the technical data every web request carries: your IP address, the time, the address of the page, and the type of browser and device. Vercel keeps this in short-lived server logs to run and secure the service. The operator of OpenOre does not combine these logs with anything else and does not try to identify visitors.

Purpose: delivering the site and keeping it secure. Legal basis under the GDPR: legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f)). Vercel acts as a processor under a data processing agreement and may process data in the United States and other countries; for such transfers it relies on the EU and Swiss–US Data Privacy Framework and on standard contractual clauses. See Vercel's privacy policy ↗.

The site sets no cookies while the community features are closed. It stores three settings in your browser's local storage so that they survive a reload: light or dark theme, expert mode, and whether the side rail is open. They stay in your browser and are not sent to the server. You can delete them in your browser at any time.

No usage statistics are collected at present. If that changes, the site will use Vercel Web Analytics, which counts page views without cookies and without following visitors across sites, and this page will be updated first.

Error reporting is switched off at present. If it is switched on, a failing page will send the error message, the address of the page and the type of browser to Sentry (Functional Software Inc., United States), with no name, no e-mail address and nothing you typed, and this page will be updated first.

Fonts, the base map and all data files are served from this site; your browser contacts no other service to show a page. Live figures (ship transits, earthquakes) are fetched by the server, not by your browser. Source links lead to other websites, which have their own privacy rules.

If you send an e-mail to hello@openore.org, your address and your message are used to answer you and are deleted when the matter is closed, unless the law requires keeping them.

The following applies only once contributing is open. Until then none of this data is collected. Contributing works without an account, as on Wikipedia.

• Contributions without an account. A suggestion holds what you enter: the facts, the public source and, if you choose one, a pen name for the credit. To limit abuse, the server keeps a salted hash of your IP address with the suggestion. The hash cannot be turned back into the address. It is deleted when the suggestion is reviewed, and after 30 days at the latest.
• Protection against automated abuse. The form may use a captcha service to tell people from scripts. If it does, the service is named here before it is used.
• Optional accounts. An account gives credit under one pen name, badges, watchlists and notifications. It needs an e-mail address and nothing else. An account is required only for reviewers and moderators, and for organisations that claim a site. The e-mail address is used to sign in and, if you ask for them, to send notifications. It is never shown on the site.
• Where it is stored. Accounts and contributions are stored with Supabase Inc., acting as a processor, in a data centre in Europe. Signing in sets cookies that are needed to keep you signed in, and no others.
• What is public. Approved contributions, their history and the pen name you chose are published under the Open Database License. Do not put personal data about yourself or anyone else into a contribution.
• Deleting an account. Write to the address above. The account and its e-mail address are deleted; approved contributions stay, credited to the pen name or, if you prefer, anonymously.

The atlas itself holds data about materials, countries, sites and companies. It does not collect or show data about private individuals. If you find any, write to the address above and it will be removed.

You can ask whether data about you is processed and receive a copy, have wrong data corrected, have data deleted or its processing restricted, object to processing that rests on legitimate interest, and receive data you provided in a common format. Write to the address above; there is no charge.

You can also complain to a supervisory authority: in Switzerland the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) ↗, in the EU or EEA the data protection authority of your country.

This page is changed before anything it describes changes. The date of the last change is given below.