Privacy Policy

shrook.com values your privacy. The following policy applies to data you share with shrook.com:

Personal data you synchronize here is considered private. You are not required to join in any "community" to use shrook.com.
Personal data you synchronize here is not available to the public in any way, unless you enable such options in the preferences.
Personal data you synchronize here will not be divulged to any third party.
Personal data you synchronize here will not be subject to analysis or scrutiny, beyond that required to test, maintain and update the system.
The URLs of any channels you synchronize here are all considered private. For example, they will not be used as inspiration for the Feed Guide.
No aggregated statistics or "attention data" will be shared with third parties.

The email address you provide with your shrook.com account details will not be shared with any third party
The only messages sent to your address will be by the password reset mechanism
Other shrook.com services that make use of your email address may be introduced in the future, but messages will only be sent with your prior consent.

Data from users of Distributed Checking is collected on a central server, however no personal information or information linkable to an individual is divulged to other users.
Distributed Checking data will not be shared with any third party
Distributed Checking data is permanently deleted on a daily basis

The Shrook desktop application system never transmits channel URLs to shrook.com, only hashes of those URLs.
It is mathematically impossible to learn the URL of a private channel from only its hash.
However, it is possible to calculate the hash of a public URL and match it against the hashes in the Distributed Checking database.

This policy represents a promise to take reasonable steps to protect the privacy of your data as desribed above, and never to share it deliberately. It does not not represent a guarantee or warranty against misconfiguration; software or hardware malfunction; or human error.

The policy may be clarified or amended in the future, as necessary.

Graham Parks (graham@utsire.com)