Privacy

A magazine that writes about digital identity and data protection should practise what it reports. Public Rails therefore has no reader accounts, comments, newsletter, advertising or analytics, and it sets no cookies.

What is collected

• By Public Rails: nothing. Guides, case studies and analysis pieces are served as static files, without tracking scripts or audience measurement.
• By the hosting provider: Cloudflare, the infrastructure that delivers Public Rails, processes request data such as IP address, time and page requested in order to transmit pages and defend the magazine against attacks. Its registered address is given in the legal notice.
• Fonts: Schibsted Grotesk and IBM Plex Mono are delivered from Public Rails' own address, together with the pages and photos, so opening an article involves no call to Google or another font provider.

Images

The photographs of rail junctions, bridges, ports and city skylines are stored with the magazine and load from the same address as the articles. The photo credits page records the author and licence of each.

Links to other sites

Case studies and guides link to legislation, central bank and ministry statistics, technical specifications and reports so that every figure can be traced. Following such a link takes you to a site governed by its own privacy policy.

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