MERIDIAN

Privacy

MERIDIAN is a small, single-operator service. It collects the least it can get away with, and this is the whole of it.

What is collected

• Your email address — stored when you enter it on the landing page, so an access key can be emailed to you and resent if you ask. Used for nothing else, given to nobody.
• A random browser id — generated by your browser and kept in its local storage, so that distinct-browser and distinct-day counts are possible under one shared beta key. Not derived from anything about you, never paired with an IP address.
• Usage events — timestamp, action, the view or entity name, your role, and that browser id. Deleted after 90 days.
• Public page views — which public page was opened, the ?src= tag if the link carried one, and the hostname of the referring site, never its path. No cookie, no session, no identifier.
• Feedback you send — the message, the page it came from, and your email address if you filled that field in.

What is not collected

• No cookies. The access key and browser id live in local storage, which is never attached to requests on its own.
• No third-party analytics, no ad or tracking pixels.
• No IP addresses in the database — an IP is held in memory only, to rate limit signups and page-view pings.
• No profiling of what you read: usage rows carry a role and a random id, nothing a person attaches to.

Other companies involved

The site loads its fonts from Google Fonts and two stylesheets from the jsDelivr and unpkg CDNs, so your browser fetches those files directly from them. None of it is analytics. Email goes out through Gmail's mail servers.

Where it is kept

One database file on one server, with a dated copy uploaded nightly to Backblaze B2. Copies older than 14 days are deleted automatically.

Deletion, and anything else

Reply to any MERIDIAN email and say so — your address and anything you sent as feedback will be deleted.

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