Privacy

What this site collects, which is very little.

There are no accounts, no advertising, and no third-party scripts on this site. Nothing is loaded from another domain, so no other party sees your visit.

Server logs

The web server records the usual request line: the address requested, the time, the HTTP status, the user agent, and the requesting IP address. These logs are used to keep the service running, to detect abuse and to count visits, and they are rotated on a short cycle. Each night the log from the previous day is turned into visit counts: the IP address is used only to look up which network a visit came from (for example a data centre) and to form a code that changes every day, and the only thing stored is the number of page views and visitors per page.

Visit measurement

To tell people from robots, the pages load a small script from this same server. When you move the mouse, tap, scroll, type or have had the page visible for 15 seconds, it sends one message with the page you are on, the kind of action, how long it took and whether the browser reports that it is controlled by a program. It sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device.

Search

The search box sends the text you type to this site's own search endpoint, on this same server, in order to return matches. Queries are not stored beyond the ordinary request log and are not associated with any identifier.

Cookies

None are set.

Data about ships

This register describes vessels and the companies that report for them, drawn from public regulatory registers. It is not a register of individuals. Where a source record names a natural person, that name is not reproduced here.