Visitor statistics

We use limited, cookie-free server statistics to understand whether Darbayn is being visited and to improve the service. Only authorized staff can see these statistics.

We count successful loads of the main website and estimate daily visitors using a daily keyed hash of the network IP address and browser information. Raw IP addresses and browser information are used temporarily in memory and are not saved in the statistics database. The daily hash is not linked to member accounts, emails, IDs, or messages. We do not use tracking cookies, analytics pixels, GPS, coordinates, referrers, or cross-site identifiers.

Country, region and city come from Cloudflare's approximate network geolocation. They are not a person's precise location. VPNs and mobile networks may show another city or country; some locations are unknown. Shared networks may combine visitors; network changes may count someone twice. Obvious bots, staff pages, assets, APIs, prefetches, and requests with Do Not Track (DNT: 1) or Global Privacy Control (Sec-GPC: 1) are excluded. Undetected automated traffic may remain.

Reporting dates and times use Jordan time (Asia/Amman). Across several dates, “visitor-days” adds the daily estimates and does not mean unique people. Statistics begin when tracking is activated; they do not recreate earlier history. A visit is a main-page load; moving between sections within the page is not another visit.

Prior-day hashes are deleted by daily maintenance, normally within about 29 hours. Maintenance failures may delay deletion; collection pauses when maintenance is more than 36 hours old. Aggregate counts are normally kept for 365 days. Recovery cleanup is bounded to protect the free allowance; outages may delay deletion, and collection remains paused while an expired-data backlog is cleared. Cloudflare's database recovery copies may retain removed data for up to seven additional days. A 5,000-page-visit limit per UTC day protects the shared free service allowance; coverage is marked partial when the limit is reached. Outages and exclusions mean counts are estimates of recorded traffic, not a complete count of people.

Questions: o-shobaky@hotmail.com. This notice supplements the Privacy Policy and Cookies Notice.