Communications with servers - and your privacy
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-The Special Circumstances YPP PCTB client talks to two different
+The Special Circumstances YPP yarrg client talks to several different
servers for different purposes.
(The information below is true if you invoke the system using the main
behaviours of the helpers, you'll have to read the source. Sorry.)
-1. PCTB server
-==============
+1. YARRG and PCTB servers
+=========================
-This records everyone's uploads of commodity prices and allows you to
-conveniently search for good trade routes using the PCTB website.
+These servers records everyone's uploads of commodity prices and
+allows you to search for routes using the PCTB and YARRG websites.
+(*NB* currently the YARRG website is still under development.)
-We upload to the PCTB server if you select the --upload option, and
-not otherwise.
+The YARRG data upload server may also distributes the uploaded data to
+other searching site operators for inclusion in their databases; your
+IP address is not passed on to those other operators.
+
+We upload to the PCTB and YARRG servers if you select one of the
+--upload options, and not otherwise - but not that this is the
+default.
We also query the PCTB server to determine possible island names, if
we don't recognise the island and want to ask you about it. It is not
won't happen.
-2. YPP SC PCTB client dictionary server
-=======================================
+2. YPP SC YARRG dictionary server
+=================================
This server maintains the master copies of various databases which are
-used to assist the OCR process. Collectively I call these
-`dictionaries'. There is a dictionary of character and island name
-images, of new commodity names, and of notable known OCR
-misrecognitions. These are used for the commodity screen OCR, for
-determining your island name, and for checking whether commodities not
-found on the PCTB server are real.
-
-By default, we ask the server for appropriate updated dictionaries
-every time we run; this is done with the rsync protocol (indeed, by
-invoking rsync). You can disable this with --dict-local-only.
+used to assist the OCR and upload process. Collectively I call these
+`dictionaries'. There are dictionaries of character and island name
+images, of (existing and new) commodity names, of notable known OCR
+misrecognitions, and of islands and archipelagoes. These are used for
+the commodity screen OCR, for determining your island name, and for
+checking whether commodities missing on the servers are real.
+
+By default, we ask the YARRG disctionary server for appropriate
+updated dictionaries every time we run; this is done with the rsync
+protocol (indeed, by invoking rsync). You can disable this with
+--dict-local-only.
If we find a screen display we don't understand, we will ask you about
it by popping up a window which allows you to select the island (or
(for example, to let you know if you have made a mistake, or to thank
you for your contributions).
-However, if you prefer to be anonymous, you can tell your PCTB client
+However, if you prefer to be anonymous, you can tell your yarrg client
not to mention your pirate name (in the GUI, or with the --dict-anon
option). In this case I won't see your ocean or your pirate name,
although of course the actual images in your submissions may reveal
increase your privacy setting, use the --dict-* privacy options.
See the table of options in the README for details.
-Having said all that, please do not upload data to the PCTB server
-without also participating in dictionary sharing. If you don't update
-your dictionary, your parses may be wrong and thus the data you upload
-to PCTB may be wrong. If you don't submit your dictionary entries,
-any mistakes you make will remain uncorrected.
+Having said all that, please do not upload data to the YARRG and PCTB
+servers without also participating in dictionary sharing. If you
+don't update your dictionary, your parses may be wrong and thus the
+data you uploads may be wrong. If you don't submit your dictionary
+entries, any mistakes you make will remain uncorrected.
Records kept
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-I keep a permanent log of all the submissions, including date, time,
-submitting pirate or IP address, and YPP SC PCTB client version.
-This is so that I have enough information to go back and fix the
-dictionary if anything goes badly wrong (for example, if a particular
-client is broken).
+I keep a permanent log of all the dictionary submissions, including
+date, time, submitting pirate or IP address, and YPP SC yarrg client
+version. This is so that I have enough information to go back and fix
+the dictionary if anything goes badly wrong (for example, if a
+particular client is broken).
+
+I keep a log of the data uploads including date, time, submitting IP
+address, YPP SC yarrg client version but NOT including your pirate
+name. This information (except your IP address) is passed on to any
+third parties who've asked to get copies of data updates.
My rsync server (file server) also records your IP address when your
client fetches new master dictionaries; those logs are used only for
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