Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Erask (“Erask”, “the app”, “we”) is an independent website and web app at erask.org, made by one person as a hobby. It runs in your browser; there is no app-store version. For any privacy question you can contact the developer at info@erask.org.

2. Data we collect

None, unless you write to us. Erask does not collect, store or transmit any personal data to us or to any third party on our behalf. The single exception is the feedback form, which only runs if you deliberately open it and press send — see section 5.

• No account — the app requires no registration, login, e-mail address or phone number.
• No analytics or advertising SDKs — the app contains no advertising networks, no usage-analytics services and no crash-reporting services from third parties.
• No backend for app data — the app has no server of ours to talk to. Nothing you do on the globe is sent anywhere. The only server-side script we run is the one that forwards the feedback form to our mailbox, and it stores nothing.

3. Data stored on your device

To make the app work, some information is saved in your browser only (local storage and the offline cache):

• The stories you save, so they are there next time;
• A few preferences, such as the last globe position;
• A cache of the globe’s images and data, and of article thumbnails, so they are not downloaded twice and the app keeps working offline.

This data never leaves your device. You can erase all of it at any time by clearing the site data for erask.org in your browser settings, or by removing the installed app from your home screen.

4. Internet access & third-party services

Erask downloads public, freely licensed content from the Wikimedia Foundation projects:

When the app requests this content, your device connects directly to Wikimedia servers. As with any internet request, Wikimedia technically receives your IP address and a standard User-Agent string identifying the app. These requests are handled under the Wikimedia Privacy Policy. We receive nothing.

When you open a story written with a language model, or build one in the story editor, the app looks the articles up on Wikidata in the same way.

Everything else — the pages, the fonts, the globe’s images and its index of events — is served by erask.org itself. No request goes to Google Fonts, to an analytics service or to any advertising network.

5. The feedback form

The menu on every page, the globe included, has a Feedback link. It opens a page with a form, and nothing happens until you write something and press send. The form is anonymous by design:

• What is sent — the text you type and the category you pick. That is the whole payload.
• What is not sent — no name, no e-mail address, no account, no device identifier, and nothing about what you were looking at in the app.
• What we do with it — a script on our server forwards it by e-mail to info@erask.org and ends. It writes no database, no log file and no copy on disk; the message exists only in that mailbox.
• Your IP address — is not recorded by us and does not appear in the e-mail. Like any web server, the hosting provider may keep short-lived technical access logs of its own; we do not read them and do not connect them to anything.
• No cookies, no analytics — the feedback page sets none. The only automated check is an invisible field that catches bots.

Because it is anonymous, we cannot reply to what you send. If you want an answer, write to info@erask.org directly — then, of course, we have your address, and we use it only to answer you.

Please don’t type anything into the form that identifies you or someone else. If you do, it reaches our mailbox as part of the message, and we will delete it on request — though, being anonymous, you will have to tell us which message you mean.

6. Location

Erask never asks for your location. You explore by turning the globe and drawing on it, not by being tracked; the app has no use for where you are.

7. Children

Erask does not collect personal data from anyone, including children. The content shown (Wikipedia articles and Commons images) is public encyclopedic material curated by the Wikimedia communities.

8. Your rights

Since we hold no personal data about you, there is nothing for us to access, rectify, export or delete on our side. All app data is under your direct control on your device (see section 3). The one thing that can reach us is a feedback message, which carries no identifier — if you want one removed, tell us which and we will delete it (see section 5). For anything else, contact us at the address below.

9. Changes to this policy

If the app’s behavior ever changes in a way that affects privacy, this page will be updated and the “last updated” date revised.

10. Contact

Questions or concerns? Write to info@erask.org.