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Privacy Policy

August 2026

Last updated: August 12, 2026.

A plain-language description of what this site actually does with data, not formal legal counsel.

What this site collects

Nothing directly. There are no comments, no contact forms, no newsletter signup, and no accounts. This site sets no cookies, and it serves no JavaScript at all — not “no tracking scripts”, but no scripts, full stop. You can check that yourself with View Source on any page here.

The leaderboards and the award sheets are built from data POTA already publishes — call signs and activation counts that are public record on pota.app. Nobody is added by hand and there is nothing to sign up for.

You can be taken off. Mail AE4JC@ae4jc.com and your call sign comes off the leaderboards, the award sheets, and anywhere else it appears here — no reason needed, and you do not have to say who you are beyond the call sign itself. It is a list this site reads before it builds anything, so the removal holds on every future rebuild rather than lasting until the next one. Sheets are cut by hand, so an award image already published comes down when it is next cut; anything somebody has already downloaded cannot be recalled, so it is worth asking sooner rather than later.

What POTA itself publishes on pota.app is POTA’s to change, not this site’s — but nothing here has to carry it.

What the server records

Like nearly every web server, this one keeps an access log: the page requested, the time, your IP address, and your browser’s user-agent string. It is used to see whether the site is working and roughly how much it is being read. Logs rotate and are deleted automatically after a few days. They are not sold, not shared, and not linked to anything else.

Third-party services

One, and it is worth naming plainly rather than burying:

Google Fonts. The typefaces on this site are loaded from fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com, which means your browser makes a request to Google when you load a page, and Google can see your IP address as an ordinary side effect. Nothing else on the site is third-party — no ad networks, no trackers, no embedded social widgets.

Links out to POTA, OpenStreetMap and other sites are ordinary links. Following one takes you to that site under its own privacy policy, not this one.

Changes

If any of this changes — analytics, comments, embedded maps, anything that touches a visitor’s data — this page gets updated at the same time, not afterwards.