Privacy policy

Webconverger is designed to ensure users privacy and security whilst surfing the Web, primarily by wiping the slate clean between sessions. Therefore public users of a Webconverger kiosks do not have to fear they are leaving any private data behind.

Webconverger does not record your search history or collect any data of your surfing habits.

Webconverger from version 7 collects an anonymous "ping" with the version number of webconverger-base.

• ping client source
• ping receiver source

This "ping" is used to determine how many users Webconverger has to warrant further investment. Public usage statistics are available

From 12.3 Webconverger has an update system in place which can be disabled by appending noupdates to the boot command line. This service allows us as a last resort to fix and collect diagnostic information from machines.

From Webconverger 12, by default (unless opted out by changing the homepage), we direct you to our configuration service. This configuration service can see your machine UUID and MAC address. We use these machine identifiers (not personally identifying), to track subscriptions made with our configuration service

All *.webconverger.[com|org] sites have standard Apache logs, which will log when you visit that site. Logs are typically rotated (deleted) within a year. Google Analytics are also enabled on some of the sites.

We try to make the privacy policy as clear as possible. If you have any questions please ask privacy AT webconverger.com.