Welcome

ThatGuyWhoLikesPandas.com uses anonymized tracking to gather general information on the frequenzy, duration and origin of requests. All the information gathered, processed and stored is completely anonymous and cannot be traced back to an individual user. The data is collected, processed and stored server-side and is not shared with any third parties with the exception of the anonymized IP address. The anonymized data contains the following:

• The request's IP address in its anonymized form
• The request's User-Agent header value
• The request's country-level geolocation
• Time of the request
• The requested path on the website
• The request's Referer header value

IP Address Anonymization

ThatGuyWhoLikesPandas.com does not store a request's IP address or process it in its normalized form. Before processing an IP address, it is converted to an IPv4 address, and its host ID will be replaced with the number 10 regardless of the original ID. This way a moderately accurate country-level geolocation can be acquired while ensuring that no complete and identifiable IP addresses are stored or shared with a third party. The anonymized IP address is used to determined the country-level geolocation and together with the User-Agent header value and the timestamp's date part to tell individual visits apart. ThatGuyWhoLikesPandas does not store anonymized IP addresses in their normalized form.

User-Agent Header

ThatGuyWhoLikesPandas.com collects the request's User-Agent header value in order to, together with the anonymized IP address and the timestamp's date part, to tell individual visits apart. ThatGuyWhoLikesPandas does not store the header value in its normalized form.

Geolocation

ThatGuyWhoLikesPandas.com determines the request's geolocation of origin on the country-level based on the request's anonymized IP address. This is conducted in order to get a better understanding of where requests most commonly originate, and how the website's localization should be improved. While getting an exact country-level geolocation by processing the anonymized IP address can produce inaccurate results, it has been found practical enough considering this way the visitor's anonymity can be fully maintained.

ThatGuyWhoLikesPandas.com uses the free tier version of https://ipgeolocation.io/ Geolocation API to determine a moderately accurate geolocation for the request. ThatGuyWhoLikesPandas.com send the API a message consisting of the request's anonymized IP address and the website's own personal API key at runtime, and receives a JSON object containing the anonymized IP address' geolocation data, of which only the country code is processed and stored. The request's full IP address is never shared with the third-party API and the API request is sent and received over a secured connection. Geolocation data other than the country code is not processed or stored.

Timestamp

ThatGuyWhoLikesPandas.com stores the time the request was received and stores it in the database. The date part of the timestamp is used to tell individual visits apart.

Referer Header

ThatGuyWhoLikesPandas.com stores the request's Referer header value to gain information on how the website was accessed in the first place and how accessibility and recognizability can be further improved.

What is stored in the database?

ThatGuyWhoLikesPandas.com keeps records on individual visits to the website, but does not store or process any data that can be used to identify a visitor in compliance with GDPR. To tell visits apart, a hash is created based on a request's anonymized IP address, User-Agent header value and the date the request was received. The hash formed this way is then compared to other requests' hashes in order to determine which actions belong to which visit. In addition to the hash, the website also stores the request's reception timestamp, country-level geolocation, the requested path on the website and the request's Referer header value. The final record stored in the database looks as follows: