Privacy

Short version: no accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no tracking. This page lists everything that is processed anyway, for this website and for the services under indietasten.net.

Who is responsible

The person named in the legal notice. Contact them there for any question about your data.

This website

indietasten.net is a static website hosted on GitHub Pages (GitHub, Inc., USA). To deliver the pages, GitHub processes your IP address and request details in its server logs; see the GitHub privacy statement. GitHub is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The project previews on the Projects page are loaded from GitHub as well (opengraph.githubassets.com).

Fonts are served from this website itself, not from Google. There are no cookies, no analytics and no embedded content from other providers.

Tile Router (tile-router.indietasten.net)

Tile Router runs on a private server in Germany. It has no accounts and stores nothing about you on the server.

  • Planning a route: your browser sends the start and end point, the selected tiles and your settings. The server computes the route and sends it back without storing the request. The road overlay works the same way with the visible map area.
  • Abuse protection: the server counts route requests per IP address in memory for a few minutes. The count is never written to disk, and no access logs with IP addresses are kept.
  • Stored in your browser: settings, selected tiles, start and end point, map view and the link to your collected squadrats are kept in your browser's local storage, only so the app remembers them. Clear the site data to remove them.
  • Your collected squadrats: your browser loads them directly from squadrats.org (or, if you enter a user id, from mainframe-api.squadrats.com). Uploaded files are read in your browser and never uploaded. The Tile Router server never sees the link, the id, the file or your tiles.
  • Map: the background map is loaded from OpenFreeMap, which receives your IP address like any website your browser loads content from.
  • Browser extension: on squadrats.com it looks for your public trophies link and stores it in the extension's own storage on your device. It hands the link only to the Tile Router page. It never reads your password, session or any other data on squadrats.com.

Legal basis

Delivering these services and protecting them against abuse is a legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Local storage is only used for functions you ask for, so no consent is needed (§ 25(2) no. 2 TDDDG).

Your rights

You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and objection (Art. 15–18 and 21 GDPR). You can also complain to a data protection authority, for example the Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz Niedersachsen.

Last updated: October 12, 2026