Privacy Policy

The short version

• This site sets no cookies for visitors and runs no analytics, advertising or tracking scripts of any kind.
• Nothing is asked of you and nothing is stored about you unless you send us a message through the contact form.
• What you write there reaches the project maintainer's mailbox and nowhere else. It is never sold, shared or used for a mailing list.
• Programs you write in the browser version of BASIC-256 stay in your browser. They are never uploaded to us.

Who is responsible

This site is run by the volunteers maintaining the BASIC-256 project — the same people who publish the program itself on GitHub. There is no company behind it and no commercial interest in your data.

For anything to do with this policy, or to exercise any of the rights described below, use the contact form and say what you would like done.

When you send us a message

The contact form is the only place on this site that collects anything. When you submit it, the following is saved in this website's database and emailed to the maintainer:

• What you typed — your name, your email address and your message.
• Technical details recorded automatically by the form: your IP address, an approximate location derived from it (city and country), your browser and device type, the page you submitted from, and the date and time.

We use it for one thing: to read your message and reply to it. Your email address is used to answer you and for nothing else — no newsletter, no list, no forwarding to anyone.

If you are in the EU or UK: the lawful basis is our legitimate interest in answering people who contact us about the project, and, for the technical details, in keeping the form from being abused by spammers.

When you read the site or download the program

Simply reading these pages leaves no trace with us beyond the ordinary record every web server keeps: your IP address, the page requested, the time, and the browser you used. Our web host keeps those logs to run and secure the server. We do not analyse them and we cannot identify you from them.

The download links point at GitHub, not at this server. When you download BASIC-256, the file comes from GitHub and GitHub sees that request. The same is true of the documentation at doc.basic256.org and of the browser version at run.basic256.org, which are served from GitHub Pages. Their handling of that is covered by GitHub's privacy statement.

When you run BASIC-256 in your browser

The browser version runs entirely on your own machine. The programs you write, the files they create and anything you draw or play stay inside your browser tab and are gone when you close it. Nothing you write is sent to us or to anybody else, and there is no account, no login and no saved work on a server.

What this site does not do

Stated plainly, because so many sites do the opposite:

• No cookies are set for visitors. There is nothing to consent to, which is why you are not being asked.
• No Google Analytics, no tag managers, no pixels, no heat maps, no A/B testing.
• No advertising and no advertising networks.
• No fonts, scripts or images loaded from third-party servers, so no third party learns you were here.
• No social media widgets or embedded players.
• No accounts for visitors, and no comments.

Who else can see it

Your message passes through two services on its way to being read:

• Our web host, which runs the server this site sits on and stores the site's database.
• The maintainer's email provider, because the notification is delivered to an ordinary mailbox.

Both act on our instructions and neither is given your data for their own purposes. Both may operate servers outside the European Economic Area, which means your message may be stored in another country under that provider's standard safeguards.

Nobody else receives it. We do not sell data, we have nothing to sell it for, and there is no third party we share it with.

How long it is kept

Messages sent through the contact form are kept while the conversation is useful and are deleted once it plainly is not — at the latest two years after the exchange ends. Server logs are kept for the short period our host retains them, typically a few weeks, and then rotate away automatically.

You do not have to wait for that: ask and we will delete your message straight away.

Your rights

If you are in the EU or UK, the GDPR gives you the right to ask what we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, to restrict or object to how we use it, and to receive a copy of it. In practice, for this site, that means the message you sent — so the answer is usually short.

Ask through the contact form and we will act on it. We do not charge for this and we will not make you prove more than that the message was yours.

If you think we have handled your data badly, you may complain to your national data protection authority. In Belgium that is the Data Protection Authority; elsewhere in the EU, your own country's equivalent.

Children

BASIC-256 is built for people learning to program, and many of them are children. The program itself collects nothing whatsoever, and children need give this site no data at all in order to use it — everything on it is readable and downloadable without typing a single detail.

The contact form is the one exception, and we would rather a parent, guardian or teacher wrote to us on a child's behalf. If a child has sent us a message and you would like it removed, ask and it will be deleted without argument.

Links to other places

This site links out to GitHub, to the documentation site, to the browser version, to Discord and to a handful of community sites run by other people. Once you follow one of those links you are on somebody else's site, under somebody else's privacy policy. We have no control over what they do and no visibility into it.

Changes to this policy

If what the site collects ever changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top is updated. There is no mailing list to notify, so the date is the honest signal — if it has not moved, nothing has.