What this site stores about you, and what it never asks.

A profile is only useful if it remembers you, so this site has started to store a small amount of personal information. Here is all of it, in the order it gets collected. It is short on purpose, and it is meant to stay short.

The short version

• A profile holds what you typed into it, and nothing you did not type.
• It is kept on Cloudflare, not in the code that builds this site.
• You see it, and so do the coaches at an event you registered it for.
• Your notes stay on your device unless you tick the share box on that note.
• Ask, and yours is deleted. You do not need to give a reason.

What a profile holds

All of this is something you typed or chose:

• Your first name, last name and email address.
• Your Australian Parachute Federation membership number, if you give one. It is optional, and we do not check it against anything.
• Whether you hold a Freefly Crest head up, a Freefly Crest head down or an Australian Star Crest. These are self-reported, and the profile says so wherever it shows them.
• Jump numbers: your total, the last 90 days, the last 12 months, and roughly how many of those were freefly.
• Tunnel hours, and the highest static and dynamic flight levels you have been signed off on.
• The certificate you hold, and whether you have had freefly coaching before.
• What you jump with for altitude awareness, and whether your rig is set up for freefly.
• Your answers to the self-assessment questions themselves.
• Which event the profile is for, when it is for one.

While you are still filling it in, none of that has left your browser. The part-finished profile sits in the tab you are working in and goes when the tab does. Submitting is a separate, deliberate act.

What is never asked: your date of birth

The federation runs a public member lookup. Family name, membership number and date of birth together return a member record, including the certificates and crests that member holds. Two of those three are on this site. The third is never asked, and that is the whole reason it is never asked.

Name and membership number on their own open nothing. Holding all three would quietly turn a coaching tool into a ready-made index into somebody else's record, which is not a thing worth building for the small convenience it would buy.

It also means we cannot verify a crest. You can look your own record up on the federation's public member search, and a coach or drop zone with their own access can confirm one in about fifteen seconds. Until someone does, the profile says self-reported and means it.

Notes stay on your device

Notes you write against a unit are stored in your own browser, on the device you wrote them on. They are not sent anywhere, and there is no copy of them on any server.

Each note carries a share box. It is off unless you turn it on, one note at a time. Turning it on means that note may be read to find where the wording of a unit is unclear. What gets read is the text and the unit it was written against, stripped of anything saying who wrote it. Untick the box and it stops.

Notes are often about being frightened, or about getting something wrong. That is what they are for, and it is why the default is off.

Where it is kept

Submitted profiles go into a database on Cloudflare, which is also what serves this site. They are not in the code repository, they are not in any file the site publishes, and they are not in anything the site builds.

Who can see it

You, and the coaches running an event you registered a profile for. That is the list. Nothing here is sold, and nothing here is used for advertising.

Coaches see a profile so they can plan groups and jumps around what people actually fly. It is a coaching aid and nothing more. It grants no qualification, no rating and no permission to jump anything, and no coach should treat it as though it does.

How long it is kept

This is a trial. When it ends, the profiles built during it are either deleted, or stripped of everything identifying a person and kept only as counts, which is what tells us whether the questions were any good. You do not have to wait for that. Ask at any point and yours goes.

Email

Your address is used to send you a sign-in link, so you can reach your profile from a different device. There is no mailing list, and nothing is sent that you did not ask for. Sign-in mail goes out through an email provider, from an address on this domain.

The sign-in form runs a Cloudflare bot check before it will send anything, which is what stops the form being used to mail people who never asked.

Ask for a copy, or ask for it to be deleted

Either is fine, and no reason is needed. Use the box below. It is labelled as a suggestion box, because it is the same one that carries corrections on the course pages, and it reaches the same people. Write plainly what you want done, and the email address the profile was saved with, so we can find it.

That box stores what you write, along with any name and email you add to it, so the request can be acted on. Nothing from it is published.

Two other things are stored with it: your browser's user agent line, and the country the request came from. Both are there to tell obvious spam apart from a real message. Your network address is used only as a short-lived counter that limits how often the form can be used, and it is not kept alongside what you wrote.