Privacy

What ends up on your device

Three things, all three technically necessary, none of them switchable — which is why we do not ask you about them. Below them stand the ones that only exist if you bring them about yourself; two of those we ask about before we write them.

nojeff_lang — the language you chose. Written only when you actually click the other language at the top; if you never click, you never get it. One year.
nojeff_notice — that you clicked this notice away, so it does not come back. One year.
nojeff_state — stops forms being submitted from other sites, and, once you are signed in, remembers that it is you. Thirty days.
nojeff_pics — that you switched product pictures on. Written only when you press the switch above the results, and deleted again when you press it back. One year.
nojeff_shops — which shops you have searching in each category and in what order, as short keys made of the country and the shop's name, sde-buchfreund for one. Written only when you save something on “My shops”, and gone as soon as you put everything there back to the start. With an account the same thing lives in the account and this one is not written at all. One year.
nojeff_searches — the searches this browser keeps: for each one the address of the stored answer and the folder you put it in, plus the folder names you typed. The search words themselves are not in it — those sit in the stored answer on our server. Written only once you have pressed “Yes, keep them” on “My searches” or on the shortlist, and gone as soon as you empty the list. If not all of it fits, the oldest searches drop out and the page says so. You can switch it off again on those same two pages. This browser only. With an account the searches live in the account and this one is not written at all. One year.
nojeff_merkliste — what is on your shortlist: for each entry the address of the stored search, the line inside it, six characters that tell us whether that line still shows the same product, and the folder you put it in, plus the folder names you typed. No name, no price, no picture — those sit in the stored search, and the price is the one that was read then. Written only once you have pressed “Yes, keep them”, and gone as soon as you empty the shortlist. When nothing more fits we turn the new product down rather than throw away something you meant to keep. You can switch it off again on the shortlist. This browser only. With an account the shortlist lives in the account instead — in full there, with name, link, price and shop — and this one is not written at all. One year.
nojeff_keep_no — that you do not want a shortlist or kept searches in this browser. It is there only if you refused, so that we do not ask you again, and it holds nothing but that answer. You can change it at any time on “My searches” or on the shortlist, both of which stand at the top of every page. One year.

Nothing else: no counter, no statistics, no advertising. The two lists are the only thing here that tells this browser apart from another — what is in them points at searches only you pressed. That is why we ask before we make them, and without your yes we do not.

Change your answer

If you create an account

Then we store a user name you pick yourself and your password — encrypted, so that we cannot read it either. Along with which shops you have searching in each category, the shops you added for yourself, your shortlist, the searches you kept, and whether you switched the recording off. Nothing else. We do not ask for an e-mail address and store none, which is also why we cannot send you a forgotten password. “Delete account” deletes all of it at once and for good.

If you add a shop of your own, we send the shop and your user name to the operator by e-mail — the form says so as well. What you search for is never in it.

With an account we remember your searches: for each one the words you typed, the address of the stored answer, when it was, and the folder you put it in. That sits in a table hanging off your account. The search's own row still names no account; this table says which rows are yours. This means the service knows more about one person than it used to — namely what you looked for. You can switch the recording off and delete the list whenever you want. The list holds no more than 10,000 searches — over that the oldest falls out. “Delete searches” deletes them at once and for good, the “Remember searches” switch stops the recording, and “Delete account” takes all of it with it.

What you put on the shortlist with an account also sits in the account, and in full: name, link, price and shop as they read at the time, plus the country, when the price was read, and the folder. It also says which stored search and which line inside it the entry came from — the same join between an account and a search as above. The price is the one from then and is not looked up again. The list takes no more than 10,000 entries; it throws nothing away to make room. “Empty shortlist” deletes all of it, and so does “Delete account”.

What is on the server

We store what was looked up and what we answered — and, if you asked us to look, what we read on the shops' own search pages while doing so — so we can see where our shop list has gaps. Your IP address is not part of it — not shortened, not hashed. Two people looking up the same thing leave two rows nobody can tell apart. There is one exception: if you added a shop of your own and arranged it into a category, your account's number sits inside that shop's short key and so on the row.

What you send through the bug button in the corner is stored as you wrote it, together with the page you were on when you pressed it. Nothing else: no address, no name, nothing we could answer to.

For at most one hour a salted fingerprint of your address sits in a counter table. It stops somebody calling the service every second, and is deleted afterwards.

When you hand a cart over with the Firefox add-on we store the product names and how many of each — nothing else. No price, no picture, no order number, nothing from your Amazon account and no address of yours. The list gets a random address nobody can guess, and is deleted after 7 days.

The Firefox add-on

The add-on lies still until you press its button. Only then does it read the page you are standing on, show you what it found, and send it once you press a second time. It reads the cart and nothing else, it sends to nojeff.eu and nowhere else, it stores nothing in your browser, and it loads no code from anywhere.

Other people's servers

This page loads nothing from anybody else's server: no fonts, no maps, no scripts. While you are here, nobody but us knows you are here. Only when you click a shop link do you go to that shop — and there its own rules apply.

With one exception, and it is one you switch on yourself: the product pictures. They sit on the shops' own servers, so your browser fetches them there — and that shop then learns your IP address and your browser information before you have clicked anything. That is why the switch is off until you press it, and why it stands right above the results. What we send along is as little as possible: the address of this page does not go with it.

And the link you paste?

The link is fetched by our server, not by your browser — the Amazon one and any other shop's one alike. The shop sees our server, not you. The address itself is not stored: the row we keep says what kind of thing it was and what we answered, and no more. The same goes for the tick box on the front page: when you set it, our server fetches the search pages of the shops we found — our server again, not your browser. The shops see us, not you. What comes back is filed under the search words, not under you: two people searching for the same thing leave the same row. Where we cannot get into a shop we ask a search engine about that one site — with the shop's name and your search words, and with nothing else.

Who reads this

Questions about this page, or about what is stored here, go to admin@nojeff.eu. If something about the site itself is wrong, the bug button in the corner is the shorter way.