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Privacy

Short version: no ads, no tracking cookies, nothing sold, nothing that follows you around the web. The map, the fonts and the visitor numbers all come from Piing’s own server. Here is what does happen.

Who’s responsible

Lari Syrota – Piing, Wyb. Jana Pawla II 20, 37-700 Przemysl, Poland. Anything about your data: hi@piing.gg.

The server

Piing runs on a server of IONOS SE in Germany, which handles data on Piing’s behalf under a data processing agreement. To deliver a page, the server needs your IP address and what your browser sends with each request. It keeps no access logs: there’s no record of who opened which page.

Visitor numbers

Piing counts visits with Umami, which runs on Piing’s own server, also at IONOS. It sets no cookies, doesn’t recognize you on your next visit and doesn’t follow you to other sites. It sees which page you opened (without anything after the “?” in its address, so never a search or a position), where you came from, your browser, device type and country. Your IP address is used for a moment to work out the country and is not stored. What comes out are numbers like “40 people looked at this city last week”. Nobody else gets them.

Cookies

Piing stores something in your browser only when you do something that needs it, and only for that:

  • piing_city: the city you chose, so Piing opens there next time (a year)
  • piing_lang: the language you switched to (a year)
  • piing_games: the games you picked, so lists start with them (a year)
  • piing_theme: light or dark, if you picked one instead of your device’s setting (a year)
  • piing_display: km or miles and the 12- or 24-hour clock, if you picked them instead of Automatic (a year)
  • piing_submission: while you submit an entry, the key to your own draft (a week at most; gone once you confirm it)
  • when you log in as an owner: your login (seven days) and the language of your admin (a year)

Nothing else, which is why there’s no cookie banner.

Where you are

To show you the right city first, Piing guesses it from your IP address, with a location database on its own server (IP Geolocation by DB-IP). The address is looked up and forgotten, never stored, and the guess is only a suggestion.

“Near me” uses your device’s location only when you tap the button and allow it. The position, rounded to about ten metres, goes into the page’s address, so you can reload or share the page; Piing uses it to find what’s near you and doesn’t store it.

Submitting an entry

When you submit a place, an organizer or an event, Piing keeps what you sent (a link, a text or both), the text of the page behind your link and, if you give it, your email address, to tell you when the entry is live. A salted hash of your network, never the address itself, keeps spam down.

To draft the entry, what you sent and the page text go to Anthropic (Anthropic, PBC, USA), which works on Piing’s behalf and doesn’t train its models on it. So please don’t put anything in your text that doesn’t belong in a public entry.

The anti-spam check on the forms is a small calculation your browser does; no other service is involved.

Claiming an entry

If you claim a place, an organizer or an event series as yours, Piing keeps your name, your role and your email address, checks the address against the entry’s own website and published contacts, and mails you a link to confirm it. Once the claim is approved, you have an owner account with your name and email address; it stays until you or Piing end it. The account also notes the language you use it in and when you last logged in.

Reporting a change

A report keeps what you wrote and, if you give it, your email address, to tell you what came of it. Two salted hashes, one of your network and one of your browser’s self-description (never the addresses themselves), tell whether two reports came from different people.

How long

90 days after a submission, a claim or a report is settled, Piing deletes the email addresses, names and hashes on it. What was submitted and what was decided stays, without them. Submissions nobody confirmed are deleted after a week.

Email

If you write to hi@piing.gg, Piing gets your address and whatever is in your message, and uses it to reply. Piing’s own mails (login links, confirmations, answers to reports) come from the same address. Mail runs through Google Workspace (Google Ireland Ltd.) under a data processing agreement; Google may also process it in the US, covered by the EU’s safeguards for transfers to the US. Emails are kept as long as the conversation matters, and business correspondence as long as tax and accounting rules require.

Places on the map

To put places and events on the map, Piing sends their addresses to OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim service. Those are the addresses of places, never yours.

Links on Piing are plain links. Nothing loads from the other side until you click, and once you’re there, their privacy rules apply.

Your rights

You can ask what Piing has about you, have it corrected or deleted, limit or object to how it’s used, and get a copy to take elsewhere. One email to hi@piing.gg is enough. If you feel your data was mishandled, you can take it up with the Polish data protection authority, the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO), ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warszawa, uodo.gov.pl, or with the authority where you live.

Changes

If Piing starts doing something new with data, this page changes first.