Privacy Policy 🛡️

Privacy is a very personal thing. I respect your privacy, and I've designed this wiki to minimize data collection wherever possible.

The reality: This wiki operates in almost complete privacy mode. What you do here stays private—with one transparent exception: comments.

Privacy Commitment

This application does not collect, store, or transmit any of your personal data to my servers or any third-party service, with one deliberate exception explained below.

Your activity remains entirely your own—except when you choose to comment.

📍 Where Data Is Actually Stored: Comments via Giscus

The Trade-off I Made

I wanted a completely stateless wiki with zero data collection. But I also wanted community engagement and feedback.

The honest truth: Comments require data storage. There’s no way around it.

I chose Giscus (GitHub Discussions-powered comments) because it's the most transparent, privacy-respecting option available:

What Gets Stored When You Comment

If you choose to comment on a page:

• Your username — from your GitHub account (you control this)
• Your comment text — the content you write
• Timestamp — when you posted
• Your GitHub avatar — displayed next to your comment

Where It’s Stored

All comment data is stored in GitHub Discussions in our public repository:

• Location: https://github.com/mithun3/dokuwiki/discussions
• Access: Completely transparent and searchable
• Ownership: You own your comments; you can delete them anytime
• Visibility: Public (unless GitHub makes discussions private)

Important Notes About Giscus Comments

✅ What Giscus does NOT do:

• ❌ Does not track you across websites
• ❌ Does not collect browsing history
• ❌ Does not serve targeted ads
• ❌ Does not share data with third parties
• ❌ Does not require an email address (uses GitHub auth)
• ❌ Does not store comment data on my servers

✅ What you control:

• Comments are optional — you don’t have to comment
• Requires GitHub login — you choose whether to authenticate
• You can delete your comments anytime
• Your comment data is stored in GitHub, which you can review directly

Why I Chose Comments

I believe community feedback makes this wiki better. Comments let you:

• Share your own knowledge and experience
• Ask questions specific to each topic
• Help future readers with your insights
• Engage directly without leaving the site

But I understand — if you prefer not to comment, that's completely fine. Commenting is 100% optional.

A Note About GitHub Authentication

You may wonder: “I’m not a developer. Why would I create a GitHub account just to comment?”

Fair question. Here’s why it’s worth it:

1. Better Community Quality

• Ties comments to real identity (reduces spam and trolling)
• GitHub account shows your profile history
• Natural accountability encourages thoughtful comments

2. You Get Benefits

• One login works across thousands of websites using Giscus
• Your GitHub profile builds over time
• You can participate in other projects’ discussions

3. GitHub is More Than Coding

• Not just for developers—anyone can create an account
• Millions of non-programmers use it for documentation, writing, collaboration
• Takes 2 minutes to sign up with just an email

4. Privacy-Respecting

• No email collection from Giscus
• GitHub handles authentication (I never see your password)
• You control your public profile information

The bottom line: If you have valuable insights to share, a GitHub account is a small investment that improves the quality of community discussions. If you’d rather just read, that’s perfectly fine too.

🔒 Everything Else: Zero Data Collection

Beyond comments, this wiki truly is stateless:

What Happens Locally

The only data stored on your device is your media player preferences:

• Playback volume — saved in your browser’s local storage
• Last played position — helps you resume where you left off
• Player UI preferences — your viewing choices

This data:

• ✅ Never leaves your device
• ✅ Never synced to any server
• ✅ Only exists in your browser
• ✅ Can be cleared anytime via browser settings

What We Don’t Do

We intentionally do not:

• ❌ Collect usage analytics
• ❌ Track page visits
• ❌ Monitor user behavior
• ❌ Install cookies (except session-only browser defaults)
• ❌ Use Google Analytics, Vercel Analytics, or any tracking service
• ❌ Create user profiles
• ❌ Sell or share any data
• ❌ Serve targeted ads
• ❌ Store anything on my servers (except comments you choose to make)

Why This Design?

This is a static site generated at build time. There's no backend server tracking you, no database logging your activity, and no analytics infrastructure. It's architecturally impossible to collect most data even if I wanted to.

The only data that gets stored anywhere is what you explicitly choose to share via comments.

🎯 My Philosophy

I want to be radically transparent about data:

1. Stateless by default — Nothing tracked, nothing stored on my servers
2. Transparent about exceptions — When you comment, you know exactly where it goes
3. You own your data — Comments are in a public GitHub repo you can see
4. Easy to opt-out — Just don’t comment (you’ll still enjoy the full wiki)
5. No hidden tracking — What you see is what you get

Your Control

For Comments

• Don’t want to comment? You don’t have to
• Want to delete your comment? Go to GitHub Discussions and delete it
• Want to review your data? Visit: https://github.com/mithun3/dokuwiki/discussions

For Local Storage (Media Player)

• Open DevTools — Application — Local Storage
• Clear the entry for this domain whenever you wish
• Your player state resets immediately

That’s it. You have complete visibility and control over all your data.

Updates to This Policy

Our privacy commitment won’t change:

• We won’t add analytics or tracking
• We won’t use your comment data for anything other than displaying comments
• If we ever add new features that involve data processing, we’ll be fully transparent

Questions?

Curious about the technical architecture or have privacy questions?

Get in touch — I love talking about this stuff.

Want to see the data in action? Visit the GitHub Discussions — all comments are there, completely transparent.