Privacy Policy

Email

We hate spam and waste more time dealing with spam than most. We'll naturally not give your email address to anyone not related to the operations of perl.org. We'll also not use your address for anything not related to your mailing list subscription here. In particular we'll not send spam to you.

However, if you choose to post to a mailing list, your email address will go to hundreds if not thousands of other subscribers and numerous list archives. For that reason you might want to subscribe with an address you can throw away if it starts getting spammed more than you can bear.

We're commited to keeping the lists themselves as free from spam as possible, and for the last few years our success rate is a few delivered spams through our system against many millions of real list postings.

Cookies

We use cookies to track sessions. Except if you login, the session data doesn't have any personal information about you. In either case, we're not giving the information we have from the session tracking to anyone not related to perl.org operations.

User login / passwords

We do not handle the login process. We merely authenticate your cookie against the auth.perl.org server which provides a common login and authentication system to many *.perl.org sites. At no point does this website see your password.

Logs

Our web servers makes logs of most requests the receive. We use the logs for statistical purposes (fancy way of saying “to get a kick out of the increasing traffic”) and to make the site better (like, seeing what sections people use and what what broken links we have).

We neither distribute the logs, nor try to link them in to particular user behaviours (there will be an exception if you are part of the admin crew though).