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Introduction
This Privacy Policy explains what information is collected when you visit Open Dev Docs (the “site”), who collects it, and the choices you have. It applies to every page on opendevdocs.github.io.
Open Dev Docs is a static website. There are no user accounts, no sign-up forms and no comment system, so we do not ask you for your name, email address or any other personal details to read the site.
Information Stored in Your Browser
The site keeps a few settings in your browser’s local storage so it works the way you left it:
- Theme - whether you chose the light or dark theme
- Course progress - which lessons you marked as complete
This information never leaves your device and is not sent to us. You can remove it at any time by clearing your browser’s site data for opendevdocs.github.io.
Information Collected by Our Hosting Provider
The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. Like any web server, GitHub receives technical information when your browser requests a page, such as your IP address, browser type and the page you asked for. GitHub uses this to deliver the site and keep it secure. See the GitHub Privacy Statement for details.
Pages also load fonts, icons, syntax highlighting and animations from public content delivery networks (cdnjs, jsDelivr, unpkg and LottieFiles). These services receive the same kind of technical request data when your browser downloads those files.
Advertising and Cookies
We use Google AdSense to show advertising, which pays for the time spent writing and maintaining the lessons.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info/choices or, in Europe, at www.youronlinechoices.eu.
- If you opt out, you will still see ads, but they will be less relevant to you.
Google and its partners may also use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers and your IP address to measure ad performance, limit how often you see an ad and detect fraud. Learn more in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and the Google advertising technologies page.
Consent in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland
If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, a consent message from a Google-certified consent management platform asks for your choice before personalised ads or advertising cookies are used. You can change your choice later from the privacy settings link that message provides.
How Information Is Used
- To deliver pages to you and keep the site secure (hosting provider)
- To remember your theme and course progress (your browser only)
- To show advertising and measure it (Google and its partners, as described above)
We do not sell personal information, and we do not combine advertising data with any other information about you.
Your Rights
Depending on where you live, laws such as the GDPR or the CCPA may give you the right to access, correct or delete personal data about you, or to object to its use. Because we do not hold personal data ourselves, requests about advertising data are best made to Google through its privacy tools. For anything else, see the contact options below.
Third-Party Links
Lessons link to official documentation and other external sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites, so please read their privacy policies when you visit them.
Children’s Privacy
The site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the site, please contact us and we will help remove it.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy when the site or its partners change. The “Last Updated” date at the top of the page shows when it last changed.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, use any of the options on the contact page.