In short
- The site sets no cookies.
- It has no accounts and no forms.
- It counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics. Cloudflare says that this tool does not collect or use your personal data.
- The fonts come from this site, so no request goes to Google.
Data controller
Alberto Arena makes and runs phplives.dev. He is the data controller for this site.
For any privacy request, write to hello@albertoarena.it. His site is albertoarena.it.
Analytics
The site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits. Each page loads a small script from Cloudflare. Cloudflare calls this script a beacon.
The beacon sends this data to Cloudflare:
- performance data from your browser, such as how long the page took to load
- the address of the page
- the page that sent you here (the referrer)
- an ID for the page view, which the beacon makes in your browser
Cloudflare says that the beacon does not store any data in your browser. Cloudflare also says that the beacon does not read cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage or IndexedDB.
Cloudflare receives your IP address with the request from the beacon. This is part of normal request handling. Cloudflare says that it discards the IP address at the nearest data center. It does not store the address in its core databases or logs.
For now, Web Analytics does not log query strings (the part of a link after ?).
The reports group visits by country, browser, operating system, device type, page and referring site. Cloudflare says that it does not track people across the websites of its customers.
Cloudflare keeps the full beacon data for 7 days. After that, it cuts the data down to about 10%. The reports go back six months.
Many ad blockers stop the beacon. The site works the same without it.
Sources, all from Cloudflare: About Web Analytics, RUM beacon, Data origin and collection, Dimensions and the FAQ.
Hosting
Cloudflare Workers serves the pages. To learn how Cloudflare handles the data of visitors, read the Cloudflare privacy policy.
Fonts
The pages use two fonts: Archivo and JetBrains Mono. This site serves them itself, from phplives.dev, like the pages.
Your browser asks no other server for them. No third party sees these requests.
Legal basis
The site handles the analytics data and the page requests on the basis of a legitimate interest. This is GDPR Art. 6(1)(f).
The interest is to serve the pages and to count visits. The site does this without cookies and without data that identifies you. That is why it asks for no consent.
What stays in your browser
Your theme. When you pick Light or Dark, the site saves your choice in your browser. It uses localStorage, under the name theme. When you pick System, the site deletes the saved choice. Your choice never leaves your browser. localStorage is not a cookie.
The Copy button. On the main page, the Copy button puts the terminal command on your clipboard. It does this only when you click it. It never reads your clipboard.
What the site does not do
- It has no accounts, no forms and no ads.
- It shows no cookie banner. Nothing on the site needs one.
- Your browser never calls the /dev/null API. The site gets the /dev/null profiles and posts when it is built, on GitHub Actions. The pages you get already hold them.
Your rights
Under the GDPR, you have these rights:
- to see the data held about you
- to have it corrected
- to have it erased
- to limit how it is used
- to object to its use, under Art. 21
- to complain to your local data protection authority
The site itself keeps no data that identifies you. Cloudflare says that it discards your IP address at the nearest data center. So in most cases, there is nothing to show, correct or erase. You can still ask, at hello@albertoarena.it.
For the data that Cloudflare holds, its own policy explains your rights: the Cloudflare privacy policy.
Links to other sites
Each entry links to its own source, often on GitHub. The site also links to dev-null.sh, whyphp.dev, albertoarena.it and cogway.dev. Those sites are not part of phplives.dev. This page does not cover what they collect.
Changes to this page
When the site changes what it collects, this page changes too. The date below shows the last change.