Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy covers the website at use-charter.dev (the “Site”), operated by the Charter project (“we”, “us”). It explains what information is processed when you visit the Site and how it is handled. It does not apply to the Charter command-line tool — that is covered in the next section.

The command-line tool runs entirely on your machine. By design it makes no network requests, performs no LLM calls, and emits no telemetry or analytics. Your repositories, scan results, and scores never leave your environment and are never transmitted to us or any third party. We have no technical ability to observe how you use the CLI.

When you visit the Site, a small amount of technical information is processed to serve and secure the pages:

• Server & CDN logs. Our hosting provider records standard request metadata — IP address, user agent, requested URL, and timestamp — to deliver content, prevent abuse, and maintain security.
• No account data. The Site has no login, no user accounts, and no forms that collect personal information.
• No advertising or cross-site trackers. We do not embed ad networks or third-party tracking pixels.

To understand how the Site is used we keep our own privacy-first analytics. There is no third-party analytics service, no cookie, and no browser storage involved. We store only aggregate daily counts — pageviews, approximate unique visitors, which pages and documentation are viewed, install-command copies, and visitor country.

Unique visitors are estimated without identifying anyone. For each day we derive a one-way hash from a visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent combined with a random salt that rotates and is deleted every 24–48 hours. Once the salt is gone the hash cannot be reversed or linked to any later day, so the same person is counted independently each day and cannot be tracked over time. We never store your raw IP address, your user-agent, or the individual pages you viewed.

Automated bots and browser prefetch requests are excluded. This processing rests on our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) in understanding and improving the Site; because no personal data is retained and no device storage is used, it sets no consent-gated cookie. The resulting dashboard is private to the project maintainer.

Technical information is used only to:

• deliver and render the Site;
• protect against abuse, fraud, and security threats;
• understand aggregate traffic patterns to improve the Site.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your information, and we never use it for advertising.

Your theme choice is saved in your browser’s localStorage so the page renders the way you left it. That value stays on your device and is never sent to a server. We do not set advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.

The Site relies on a small number of service providers:

• Hosting & CDN. The Site is served by a static hosting and content-delivery provider that processes request logs as described above.
• Source & documentation. Links to our code, license, and docs point to GitHub and our documentation host; their own privacy policies apply once you follow them.

Technical logs are retained only as long as needed for security and operations, then deleted or anonymized in line with our hosting provider’s standard practices. Because the Site keeps no personal accounts, there is no profile data to retain.

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR or CCPA), you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of personal data relating to you. Because the Site holds no user accounts or marketing profiles, the data we have about any individual visitor is minimal. To exercise a right, contact us using the details below.

The Site is a developer tool and is not directed to children under 13 (or the equivalent age in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Our hosting and CDN operate globally, so technical request data may be processed in countries other than your own. Providers are selected for their adherence to recognized data-protection safeguards.

We may update this policy as the Site evolves. Material changes are reflected by the “last updated” date above. Continued use of the Site after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

Questions about this policy or your data? Reach us at privacy@use-charter.dev or open an issue on our GitHub repository.