Privacy
daftar asks you for your name, your email address and your scholarly work. You are entitled to know exactly what happens to all three.
This page is not finished, and we would rather say so
Our full privacy policy is being prepared with our legal advisers, so that it holds up in the places our contributors actually are — not only where our servers are. We would rather publish it late and correct than early and vague. It will appear here, in English, Farsi and Arabic, and we will tell you when it does.
What is already true, today
- We use no tracking cookies, no analytics, no telemetry and no third-party scripts. Not "none that we consider intrusive" — none at all.
- We hold no password for you, because there is no password. You sign in with a link we email you, or with a passkey whose private half never leaves your device.
- We note when you last signed in, and whether you have a passkey. Administrators can see both, and when you last did something here, such as a recording or a review, so they can help someone who is stuck.
- When you sign in, we record the network address and browser you used; when you send us a request or a message, the network address it came from. We keep them for six months, for security, and then delete them. Our backups hold them until they expire, at most about six months later.
- When a sign-in is refused, such as a link asked for an address with no account here, or a link that has expired, we note the reason, the account or the address that was typed, how many times and when, so that administrators can see if someone keeps trying. We delete these notes after 90 days. Our backups hold them until they expire, at most about six months later.
- Your recordings, transcripts and records are yours. We are their custodian for as long as daftar exists, and you can download your own material for life — and if daftar ever winds down, you get your material before it does.
- When you press Record or Upload, the sentence beside the button says what you are agreeing to. We note when you agreed and which words you saw, and nothing is uploaded without it.
- When a reviewer accepts a recording, we keep one protected copy of it, which cannot be changed or deleted by mistake.
- You can delete your own recording at any time, and it is permanent: you confirm it with your passkey or with a link we email you, and we cannot recover it for you afterwards. If it had been accepted, an administrator erases its protected copy too, after a 24-hour safety window.
- An administrator can also remove a recording, when someone heard in it, such as the teacher, asks for that, or when its contributor asks and cannot do it themselves. Its contributor is told it was removed and why, though not who asked, and its protected copy is erased the same way.
- Deleted means gone from daftar at once. Our backups, which let us restore the service if something fails, still hold it until they expire, at most about six months later.
- Your records stay attached to your account, permanently. We say that before you start, because it is how the work can be vouched for.
- You can give the name shown with your work on your own page, and change or clear it there at any time. Reviewers and administrators see it beside your work, and the tools you open from daftar, such as Fihrist, receive it each time you sign in to them. Clearing it here does not remove it from a tool you have already signed in to: ask an administrator to have it removed there too. An administrator can change your name if they need to, and you are told when they do.
- If an administrator suspends your account, you are told, and nothing of yours is deleted. The reason they give is kept with the record of the suspension, and you can ask us for it.
- If you sign out everywhere, or an administrator suspends your account, daftar tells the other tools you use to end your sessions there, and keeps a note of which it told for 30 days, or for as long as a suspension lasts.
- We do not sell your information, and we do not share it for marketing. There is no marketing.
- There is no public sign-up and there never will be. Every account exists because somebody was invited.
What changed in this promise
- : We now say what we note when a sign-in is refused, such as a link asked for an address with no account here: the reason, the account or the address that was typed, how many times and when. We keep these notes for 90 days, so that administrators can see if someone keeps trying, and then delete them.
- : If you sign out everywhere, or an administrator suspends your account, daftar now tells the other tools you use to end your sessions there, and keeps a note of which it told for 30 days, or for as long as a suspension lasts.
- : Your records now stay attached to your account rather than to a name. You can give, change or clear the name shown with your work on your own page, and the tools you open from daftar receive it when you sign in to them. A suspension deletes nothing of yours, and you are told.
- : We now say how long we keep the network address and browser of a sign-in, and the address a request or a message came from: six months, and then they are deleted. Administrators can see when you last signed in, whether you have a passkey, and when you last did something here.
- : This page now says what happens to your recordings: what you agree to when you press Record or Upload, the one protected copy of an accepted recording, how you delete your own, how an administrator removes one on request, and how long our backups hold what is deleted.
- : This page was first published, with the promise that if daftar ever winds down, you get your material before it does.
Ask us anything, now rather than later
If you want to know what we hold about you, or you would like it removed, you do not have to wait for a document. Get in touch and a person will answer you.