Privacy · what this site counts, and what it leaves alone
standingschart.com has no accounts and no sign-ins, nothing on it asks who
you are, there are no ads, and nothing here is sold. This page says exactly
what the site records and what it leaves alone.
Visitor analytics
Two visitor counters run here, Cloudflare Web Analytics and PostHog.
Between them they record which pages get opened, which race charts get
looked at, and which of the controls on the page get used. Nobody has an
account on this site and nothing on it asks who you are.
The analytics also notes anonymous, aggregate performance timing, how
quickly a page loads and draws, and roughly how long a visit lasts, so slow
pages can be found and fixed. None of it is tied to who you are.
PostHog also works out an approximate location, your country, region,
and city, from your IP address, so the totals can show where visits come
from. Its counter also sends your device's time zone setting with each
count, which it does by default. It is aggregate and anonymous, tied to no
account, and never used to change what you see.
Neither counter sets a cookie. Your screen is never recorded or played
back, and no profile is built about you. PostHog does keep one thing on
your device: a random id, in your browser's own storage, so that a second
visit is not counted as a second person. It is tied to nothing else and
identifies nobody. Of what this site stores, listed below, it is the only
part that is there for us rather than for you.
If your browser sends a Do Not Track signal, PostHog counts nothing.
Cloudflare's counter does not read that signal, and never collects more than
the page address, where you came from, and basic browser information.
Your location, and the race a page opens on
The homepage opens on the division races nearest you, and so does a
chart page when you change league or season with its menus. To guess where
you are, the page reads the time zone your device is set to, such as
America/Chicago, and measures from the city that time zone is named
for.
No location lookup happens. The guess is made inside your browser,
nothing is sent anywhere to make it, there is no permission prompt, and
your device's precise location is never used. The guess is never stored,
and if your time zone is not one the site knows, the page simply opens on
a default race instead.
The guess is used only for a page you move to yourself: the homepage,
and a chart page you reach by changing league or season with the menus. A
page you arrive on directly does not use it, whatever it shows. Nor does a
league you have already picked a race in.
What your browser keeps
Three things are kept from one visit to the next, and two of them are
yours: the race you picked in each league, so the site can open there next
time, and the height you dragged a chart to, so it stays the size you set
it. The third is the analytics counter's random visitor id, described
above, which is there for us rather than for you. PostHog also keeps a
little bookkeeping for the current visit; that goes away when you close the
tab.
All of it is kept in your own browser, on your own device, in what
browsers call local storage, not a cookie, and clearing your browser's
site data clears it. The two preferences are yours alone: nothing reads
them back but this site's own pages. The visitor id is different, and it
would be misleading to say otherwise: it exists to travel with each
counted event to the analytics service, so that two events from one
browser count as one visitor rather than two. What you do on a page, the
race you pick and the size you drag a chart to, is reported alongside it,
without a name, an email address or anything else that says who you
are.