Privacy

This page explains what happens to a message once it lands in the DataBuss inbox, and how to ask for it to be deleted.

What the site collects

DataBuss does not run counters, analytics scripts, advertising tags, or forms anywhere on its pages. No cookie on the site is used to count visits or to serve adverts, and no record of browsing activity is kept. The only thing that reaches the project is a message a reader chooses to send to the editorial email address — nothing is gathered simply by someone opening an article.

What a letter brings with it

Sending an email to reviews@databaseofcompanies.online brings two pieces of information along with it: the sender's address and the text of the message itself. Nothing is pulled from a device, a browser, or an internet connection beyond what the email already contains.

That is the complete list. DataBuss does not ask for a name, a phone number, or any extra detail unless the message itself offers one, and even then it is treated as part of the correspondence rather than as a separate record kept apart from it.

Why messages are read

Letters arrive for a handful of reasons: a correction to a review, a question about how a database was tested, a tip about a provider worth covering, or a request concerning a previous message. The editors read mail on Mondays and Wednesdays, and a message is used only to prepare a reply or to act on what it asks for — a correction gets checked against the source it concerns, a tip gets logged for consideration, nothing more.

No message is forwarded to a third party, and none is used for anything beyond answering it or fixing what it points out.

How long correspondence is kept

A letter stays in the inbox for as long as it remains useful for answering it or for tracking a correction through to the article it affects. Once that purpose has run its course, there is no separate rule that moves it into a long-term archive; it simply sits in the same mailbox as everything else sent to reviews@databaseofcompanies.online.

Anyone who would rather not have their message sitting there any longer does not need to wait for that to happen on its own.

Asking for a message to be deleted

Deleting a piece of correspondence is a matter of asking for it by email. A short note to reviews@databaseofcompanies.online describing the earlier message — roughly when it was sent and what it concerned, so it can be found — is enough to have it removed.

Since the editors read mail on Mondays and Wednesdays, a deletion request sent outside those days simply waits for the next one. There is no other channel through which a request like this can reach the project, and none is needed: the inbox is the only place correspondence exists in the first place.