From a27a04b65df94095f739cac69ade920a19bdc1b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ian Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:36:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update templates/about.html --- templates/about.html | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/templates/about.html b/templates/about.html index 28753a4..e853d41 100644 --- a/templates/about.html +++ b/templates/about.html @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@

Between the various data sources, the following Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are supported: Parks on the Air (POTA), Summits on the Air (SOTA), Worldwide Flora & Fauna (WWFF), Global Mountain Activity (GMA), Worldwide Bunkers on the Air (WWBOTA), HuMPs Excluding Marilyns Award (HEMA), Islands on the Air (IOTA), Mills on the Air - (MOTA), the Amateur Radio Lighthouse Socirty (ARLHS), International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend (ILLW), Silos + (MOTA), the Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS), International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend (ILLW), Silos on the Air (SIOTA), World Castles Award (WCA), New Zealand on the Air (ZLOTA), Keith Roget Memorial National Parks Award (KRMNPA), South Australia National Parks and Conservation Parks Award (SANPCPA), Wainwrights on the Air (WOTA), Beaches on the Air (BOTA), Lagos y Lagunas On the Air (LLOTA), Towers on the Air (WWTOTA), Tiles on @@ -171,10 +171,6 @@ section, Privacy, for details of how these are handled. If you are looking at the map and see lots of spots in the geographic centre of countries, allowing these lookups will help. For QRZ.com a paid account is required to look up operator locations.

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IOTA in particular causes a mapping problem, firstly that there is no official set of geodata beyond the names of - islands. We also have no way of telling whether priority should be given to IOTA reference or e.g. QRZ lookup, - for example for a G callsign in EU-005 Great Britain the QRZ home address is probably more accurate, but in - EU-002 Aaland islands, it's more likely a DXpedition and the IOTA would be more accurate.

Privacy

Spothole collects no data about you on a permanent basis. All spots and alerts are "timed out" and deleted from the system after a set interval, which by default is one hour for spots and one week for alerts.

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The data you provide can optionally include your login credentials for QRZ.com and HamQTH. You can provide these - in the "Data" menu of most pages. If you do, Spothole will augment the data it produces with lookups from these + in the "Your Data" menu of most pages. If you do, Spothole will augment the data it produces with lookups from these services, which can for example provide more accurate markers on the map tab, and operator names when you mouse over a DX callsign. Spothole will still work fine if you don't provide these. The values you enter are sent to Spothole via HTTPS so are protected in transit, though of course you do have to trust Spothole with this sensitive data in order to use this feature.

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Any data you send as part of a query, such as your QRZ or HamQTH credentials, is used only for the lifetime of that + query and is not saved anywhere apart from your own device.

Spothole uses no trackers, no ads, and no cookies.

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Caveat: The owner of this server has chosen to inject their own content into the "spots" page.