Starling Cybernetics

Respecting your privacy

Starling Cybernetics believes that privacy is a fundamental human right. This is the primary reason why we operate the validator Starling Staking on the Penumbra network.

As a part of that commitment, this website is designed to help protect your privacy as well. This page will stay up to date with the details of how this site (doesn't) collect or use your personal information when you access it.

Analytics are disabled

This website is hosted on Bear Blog, which has a straightforward and non-invasive privacy policy. By default, Bear collects anonymized user analytics comprising an estimate of unique views. This is cleverly executed in a relatively privacy-preserving way, but this website opts to completely disable it anyhow. You can confirm this by viewing the source of any page and noting the absence of the CSS tracking fragment described in the link above.

Third party resources are minimized

This website does not embed links to any third-party site, with the following exceptions:

Tracking is mitigated

By default, the HTTP Referer header is sent by your browser to every resource it loads, identifying the website from which you are loading that resource. This header allows a site to track what page you were viewing when you clicked a link to that site, and what path you take while navigating through that site.

Furthermore, this header allows a third-party site whose content is embedded (for example, a content delivery network providing images, scripts, fonts, or other resources) to associate each load of that content with the page in which it is embedded, and associate that information with uniquely identifying information about you, such as your IP address.

Luckily, this default can be changed. This website applies a directive to all pages which bans the transmission of this header, even to this site itself:

<meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer">

Learn more about protecting your privacy

If you are interested in taking more steps to protect your privacy, we recommend the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Surveillance Self-Defense.