Pressless privacy policy
Pressless is an app you run on your own computer to write and publish your website. This page says what it does with your information.
The short version
- Pressless has no server. Nothing you write, and nothing it reads from Google or GitHub, is sent to the people who make Pressless.
- Your information stays on your computer, apart from what you publish to your own website and what Pressless sends to GitHub and Google to do the jobs you ask of it.
If you choose to see your visitor numbers in Pressless, you sign in with Google. Pressless then asks Google for one thing: permission to read your Google Analytics reports. It cannot change your Analytics settings or see anything else in your Google account.
With that permission, Pressless reads:
- the list of Analytics properties your account can see, so you can choose your site;
- the web streams of the property you choose, to find the id your site's counting code needs;
- your site's visitor numbers: how many people visited, from which countries, which pages they read and for how long, and how they found your site.
These numbers are shown to you in Pressless and nowhere else. Pressless keeps the latest numbers in a file in its own folder on your computer, so it does not have to ask Google again every time. That file is never put in your website's folder, so it is never published.
Google's sign-in gives Pressless a key. Pressless keeps that key in your computer's own password store (Windows Credential Manager, or your Linux desktop's keyring), not in an ordinary file.
You can stop this at any time. In Pressless's Settings, follow the link to change or turn off visitor numbers, then choose Turn off visitor numbers. Pressless asks Google to cancel the key and forgets which property you chose. You can also remove Pressless's access on Google's own page: https://myaccount.google.com/permissions
Pressless's use of information it receives from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. It does not sell this information, use it for advertising, or share it with anyone.
GitHub
Pressless publishes your website through GitHub. When you sign in with GitHub, Pressless keeps GitHub's key in your computer's password store too. It uses the key to create your site's repository, switch the site on, and publish the pages you press. You can remove Pressless's access from your GitHub settings, under Applications.
Checking for updates
Pressless asks GitHub whether a newer version of Pressless has been released. That request carries nothing about you or your site; like any visit to a web page, it shows GitHub your internet address.
Reporting a problem
If you choose to report a problem, Pressless links to GitHub's own form, filled in with your Pressless version and your system's name (such as "Windows 11"). You can read and change it before you send it, and nothing is sent unless you send it. Reports there are public.
Your website's own visitors
Your published website is yours. If you turn on visitor counting, your pages carry Google's counting code, and Google's own privacy terms apply to your visitors. When you turn visitor counting on, Pressless adds a Privacy page to your site that says so, if it has none.
Questions
Ask on the Pressless project page: https://github.com/milnet01/Pressless/issues