What we keep, and for how long

No accounts

There is no sign-up, no email address and no password. Your log is opened by a random private link. We store only a scrambled form (a hash) of that link, so the link itself is not in our database; this browser keeps it in one cookie that only this site can read.

What a log holds

Exactly what you type: learners' first names or nicknames, drive dates and times, minutes, night minutes, who rode along (a role such as "parent or guardian", never a name), weather, kinds of road, skill ratings and short notes, plus your state, time zone and targets. No locations, no GPS, no ages, no contact details, no license or permit numbers.

How long

• A log stays until you delete it (Log settings, Delete this log). A log nobody has opened for 400 days, without a running Pass, is deleted automatically.
• Backups: the site makes a nightly copy of its database and keeps each one 14 days. The server it runs on also takes its own account backups, which rotate out after about a month, and WeldonPC.com keeps off-site archive copies of its servers for disaster recovery, which are not deleted on a fixed schedule. A deleted log can therefore stay in backup copies after you delete it. Backups are used only to restore the site after a failure, never to look at, use or share what is in a log.
• To limit abuse we count saves per connection per day using a salted, scrambled form of the internet address; those counts are deleted after 2 days.
• The web server keeps standard access logs (address, time, page) for its normal security and troubleshooting purposes. The log's private link never appears in them.

What we do not do

No tracking cookies, no analytics services, no fonts from other sites, no selling or sharing of anything you type. The only outside service any page loads is the AdEngine banner on the public pages, described under Advertising; it also counts one page view per page as a daily total. The practice-space calculator saves nothing.

Advertising

The public pages (home, the parking lessons, the practice-space calculator, pricing and about) show one banner ad from AdEngine (adengine.us), the small ad network run by WeldonPC, the company behind this site. For now the ads are for WeldonPC's own services. Your log, your drives, the drive form, the skill road, the printable log, this page and the terms never show an ad.

To show an ad, your browser loads a script from adengine.us, asks it for one banner, loads the banner image, and reports once that the page was viewed and once that the banner was shown. Like any website, adengine.us receives your internet address, your browser type and the address of this site with those requests. Nothing from your log is sent with them.

• No cookies, no profile. AdEngine sets no cookies, gives you no ID and does not track you from site to site.
• How your internet address is used. adengine.us looks up the approximate city for your address in a location database kept on its own server (nothing is sent to anyone else), so that ads meant for one area are shown only there. It also uses the address to count each ad view or click only once and to leave out robots and WeldonPC's own office traffic. The address is not stored with the counts; the temporary entries made from it expire within six hours and are cleared from the server within two days.
• What is kept. Daily totals only: page views for this site, and views and clicks for each ad. The adengine.us web server also keeps a standard access log (internet address, time, address requested, referring site, browser) for security; it is deleted on a rolling schedule.
• Clicking an ad passes through adengine.us, which counts the click, and then opens the advertiser's site, which has its own privacy policy.
• Nothing about you is sold or shared.

Payments

When payments open, PayPal handles them; we receive only what PayPal sends to confirm a Pass (a subscription reference and its status), never card details.

Questions

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