v1.0 release

views/webpage_about.tpl

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     <p>To avoid putting too much load on the various servers that Spothole connects to, the Spothole server only polls them once every two minutes for spots, and once every hour for alerts. (Some sources, such as DX clusters, RBN, APRS-IS and WWBOTA use a non-polling mechanism, and their updates will therefore arrive more quickly.) Then if you are using the web interface, that has its own rate at which it reloads the data from Spothole, which is once a minute for spots or 30 minutes for alerts. So you could be waiting around three minutes to see a newly added spot, or 90 minutes to see a newly added alert.</p>
     <h4 class="mt-4">What licence does Spothole use?</h4>
     <p>Spothole's source code is licenced under the Public Domain. You can write a Spothole client, run your own server, modify it however you like, you can claim you wrote it and charge people £1000 for a copy, I don't really mind. (Please don't do the last one. But if you're using my code for something cool, it would be nice to hear from you!)</p>
+    <h2 class="mt-4">Data Accuracy</h2>
+    <p>Please note that the data coming out of Spothole is only as good as the data going in. People mis-hear and make typos when spotting callsigns all the time. There are also plenty of cases where Spothole's data, particularly location data, may be inaccurate. For example, there are POTA parks that span multiple US states, countries that span multiple CQ zones, portable operators with no requirement to sign /P, etc. If you are doing something where accuracy is important, such as contesting, you should not rely on Spothole's data to fill in any gaps in your log.</p>
     <h2 id="privacy" class="mt-4">Privacy</h2>
     <p>Spothole collects no data about you, and there is no way to enter personally identifying information into the site apart from by spotting and alerting through Spothole or the various services it connects to. 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.</p>
     <p>Settings you select from Spothole's menus are sent to the server, in order to provide the data with the requested filters. They are also stored in your browser's local storage, so that your preferences are remembered between sessions.</p>