Privacy notice.
Last updated 14 November 2026.
This notice explains what this website and its documentation manual collect, why, and how you can control it. It covers this site only. The self-hosted Alt8Mail product, the live demo environments and the GitHub repository are separate services with their own operation and policies.
What we collect
When you submit the contact form, we store the information you enter:
- your name, work email address and company name;
- your team size, the reason for your enquiry and your message;
- the page path, referring URL, browser user-agent string and the time you gave consent;
- the date and time the enquiry was received and its internal status.
If you allow analytics, we also record first-party measurement data about how the website is used:
- a random visitor identifier stored in this browser and a random session identifier for the current browsing session;
- the pages you open, the interactive elements you click and the labels of those elements;
- whether you open a demo route or attempt to copy a demo sign-in, and whether that copy attempt succeeded;
- the referring website hostname, device type, browser and operating system;
- the approximate time the tab is active on the site.
We do not store your IP address for analytics, and analytics never records form-field values, demo usernames, demo passwords or the content of a message. We do not run advertising or cross-site tracking on this site.
Why we use it
We use enquiry data to respond to you, understand the deployment you are considering, prepare a quote or support response, and manage the resulting conversation. We do not add form submissions to a marketing list or sell personal data.
When analytics is allowed, we use it to understand which pages, documentation and demo routes are useful, where visitors encounter friction, and how the site can be improved. If you submit an enquiry in the same browser while analytics is enabled, we may link that visit to the enquiry so the team can understand the path that led to it.
Analytics and your choice
Analytics is off until you choose “Allow analytics”. The choice is stored in your browser. Declining, or withdrawing later, does not limit access to the website or the demo links. We also honour the Global Privacy Control signal where your browser sends one.
You can change your choice at any time with the Analytics settings control in the footer. Withdrawing consent removes the current analytics session and its events from our database, and removes the analytics identifiers from this browser. Other records that can no longer be linked to you remain anonymous until the retention period ends.
Where it is stored
Enquiries and analytics are stored in a local SQLite database operated with this website. Access is password-protected and limited to authorized Alt8Mail administrators. The public site is served with security headers, and public submission and analytics endpoints are rate-limited.
Cookies and browser storage
The public website and documentation manual set no analytics or marketing cookies. With your permission, analytics uses two kinds of first-party browser storage:
- Local storage for your analytics choice and a random visitor identifier;
- Session storage for the current analytics session and active-time measurement.
The authenticated enquiry desk uses one strictly necessary session cookie after an administrator signs in. It is not used for tracking and expires after 12 hours.
Retention
Analytics records are deleted automatically after 180 days by default. The operator can shorten or extend that period within the server configuration. Enquiries are kept while the conversation is active and for as long as needed to manage a business relationship, unless a shorter period is required.
Third-party services
The site and its documentation load fonts, styles, scripts and screenshots from their own server. If you follow a link to GitHub or a live demo, those services receive the request directly and operate under their own privacy terms. The demo access page retrieves shared demo sign-in details from this site's server; those demo credentials are public by design and should never be used for sensitive data. We do not embed third-party analytics, advertising or social widgets.
Your choices
You can ask us to correct or delete an enquiry by sending a new message through the contact form with “Privacy request” in the message. We will match the request to the original record and delete it where we are not required to retain it. For analytics, use the Analytics settings control in the footer for immediate browser-level control.
Changes
If the site's data practices change, this notice will be updated with a new date. Material changes will be reflected here before the new practice begins.