Privacy
Privacy Notice
1. Scope
- This notice covers the website lightningeg.com (the “site”), in English and Arabic.
- It does not cover the Lightning app. The app has no account and no analytics, and keeps financial data only on your own devices.
- The app connects to the internet only to look up prices of holdings you record.
2. Essential Analytics
- Applies to every visitor.
- Provider: GoatCounter, an open-source analytics service.
- Collected: the page viewed, the referring site, screen size, browser language and the page’s release ID.
- Collected: downloads by build, clicks on buttons and links, enlarged screenshots, sections scrolled into view, calculator use, questions opened, and whether a form was started or submitted.
- Not collected: the contents of any field, including amounts entered in the calculator.
- Nothing is stored on your device.
- GoatCounter may tell page views of one session apart for a few hours, using a temporary value derived from your connection. It does not store your IP address.
- Results are totals. A daily copy of the totals is published in the site’s public code repository.
3. Linked Visits
- Applies only if you select Allow all. It uses your browser’s storage, which works like a cookie.
- Your browser creates a random visit identifier, held in session storage and deleted when the tab is closed.
- Your browser creates a random visitor identifier, held in local storage for 90 days, to tell first visits from return visits.
- Each page sends the events listed in section 2, with these identifiers, the page, device type (phone, tablet or desktop), language, referring site and campaign tags (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign).
- The data is sent to a Google Apps Script run by Lightning and stored in a private Google Sheet.
- Records older than 90 days are deleted daily.
- Only totals are exported from the sheet.
4. Not Collected
- Names, email addresses or phone numbers, except in forms you submit (section 5).
- IP addresses.
- Device fingerprints.
- Advertising or social media trackers.
- Session recordings or heatmaps.
- No data is sold or shared for advertising.
5. Forms
- The survey, the email signup and beta feedback are sent only when you submit them.
- Submissions are stored in private Google Sheets.
- Email addresses are used only to invite you to the beta and to send news of new builds.
- To request deletion, use the feedback form on Downloads.
6. Your Choice
- Essential analytics apply until you choose.
- Your choice and your light or dark theme setting are stored in this browser’s local storage, which works like a cookie. They apply to this browser only.
- Keep essential only also deletes both random identifiers.
- If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, only essential analytics apply and you are not asked.
- If this notice changes what is collected, you are asked again.
Without JavaScript, nothing is collected.
7. Changes
- The date above shows the last update.
- Earlier versions are kept in the Version Archive.