What kinds of site usage information is gathered?
Array, 17 Oct 1999
Last updated: 16 Dec 2004

This site logs two kinds of information:

1. Apache's standard access and error logs. The access logs contain the page accessed, the URL accessed, and the machine accessed from.

   We do not run any user-tracking analysers on the access logs. We do run the accesswatch software, which produces a breakdown of accesses by region and type (eg country, domain).

2. User activity generated by the PHP code running on the server. We record the minimum amount of information needed to help us detect problems with the website, such as database failures, login problems, and security breaches or attacks. Specifically, the following information is logged:
   • Login attempts, both successful and unsuccessful (no passwords are recorded)
   • Changes to user authorization permissions.
   • Changes to user data (just the event, no data is recorded)
   • Changes to group configuration.

   No logging is done on any other activity, including views to pages, posts to a forum or FAQ, updates to your group's pages, and so on.

   We do not run any analysis or tracking software on any of the above user activity logs.