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[Jonah Aragon <jonah AT triplebit.net>]

In October of last year I brought up using Piwik to collect general analytics of our web traffic on various key sites. It was met with mainly approval, but we never took it farther than that, so I'd like to reintroduce it here with a vote as the final intention at the end of this discussion period.

For a list of data our operators will be technically able to collect, https://piwik.org/faq/general/#faq_18254

In particular, we would be collecting Visitor IP addresses, anonymized to the 2nd byte, for example 10.0.10.193 would appear and be stored as 10.0.xxx.xxx in our logs. Geolocation would likely only be on a country or major region level because of that obfuscation as well. 

All the data will be fully controlled by us on our servers, Piwik is not a third-party service, and it will be hosted on our domain, likely piwik.opennic.org or stats.opennic.org.

Opting out is easy, and you will have 3 different methods to do so:

1. Setting a piwik_ignore cookie in your browser (we will have a checkbox on a Privacy Policy page for you to do this easily).

2. Enabling Do Not Track in your browser, which will be respected.

3. Disabling _javascript_ (or using an adblocker, uBlock Origin seems to block Piwik by default)

Anyways feel free to look through Piwik’a Privacy options (https://piwik.org/docs/privacy/) and FAQ (https://piwik.org/faq/), and ask any other questions you have here. 

The server hosting Piwik itself will likely be on Amazon EC2 on the OpenNIC account (that Fusl operates), which hosts a lot of our other infrastructure as well. 

Barring any major disapproval, I intend to bring this to a vote within the next week or two.

All the best,

Jonah