Ohmwork is made by The PCGP, a small company run by Steve Austen in the United Kingdom. This page says what happens to your information when you use ohmwork.net, the free browser taster and the Ohmwork application. The short version: we keep as little as we can, and nothing you build is ever sent to us.
What the website collects
Like every website, ours is served by a computer that writes a line in a log for each request: the address it came from, the time, the page asked for and the browser used. Our hosting company keeps those logs for a short time so that faults and attacks can be traced, and we do not use them for anything else. We do not use advertising and we do not set tracking cookies.
Analytics
At the moment the site runs no analytics. When we add Google Analytics, which we expect to do, it will only start after you agree to it on your first visit, it will be set up so that Google does not keep your full address, and this page will change to say what it collects and how long it is kept. If you say no, nothing is loaded and the site works exactly the same.
The release list
If you join the release list you give us your email address. It is stored on our own server, in the mailing software the site runs, and nowhere else. You will get one email asking you to confirm, and you are not on the list until you click it. After that we send release news only, never more than monthly, and every email carries an unsubscribe link that removes you with one click. We never share, sell or lend the list. When you sign up, the site may set a small cookie so that it does not keep offering you the form.
The browser taster
The free lessons run entirely in your browser. The circuit you build and the steps you have completed are saved in your browser’s own storage on your device so that you can come back to them, and they are never sent anywhere. Clearing your browser’s site data removes them. The taster can be installed for offline use, and that works the same way: the copy lives on your device.
The Ohmwork application
The application runs on your own machine and works without an internet connection. Once each time it starts, it fetches a small file from ohmwork.net to find out whether a newer version exists. If you have a licence key, that request carries the key’s short reference so that the answer can say whether the update is covered by it. That request is logged like any other visit and tells us nothing about what you are building.
If you write to hello@ohmwork.net we keep the conversation for as long as it is useful in answering you, and we use your address for nothing else.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, and object to how it is used. Email hello@ohmwork.net and we will answer within a month. If you are not happy with our answer you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
Changes
If this page changes, the date below moves with it.