Bartium is a compact, lightweight desktop application designed to centralize all your web
services.
We understand that these services can contain crucial and sensitive information and as such security and
protection of your data is a vital part of Bartium's core.
Bartium is owned by Bart Kelchtermans, Belgium. (referred to as "I", "Me", "Our" or "We"). As a customer of
this service you're a "User" or "You" according to this agreement.
The Desktop Application offered by us will be referred to as "Bartium", "Bartium App", "Client", "Build"
or
"Application".
The external web services that Bartium runs will be referred to as "Service".
This privacy policy will also apply on Bartium's website, from this point on referred to as the "Website".
This data includes your App preferences in the form of a .JSON file as well as cookies, browser cache and
other data that the Chromium framework might need to store.
There is no difference between this data and the data your local browser saves locally.
It is important to note that the Client does not directly handle, store or use this last set of data (the
cookies, browser cache, ...).
While this privacy policy is active, there are no remote Bartium servers that handle any requests or data and
all outgoing data is
by the services themselves.
No data is remotely saved about the Build, User
or anything related to the Services within Bartium.
To optimize the Website and provide the best possible experience, a third party (CloudFlare) is used for
statistics and retains data about it and its users. More on this later.
The Bartium Client is only responsible for handling the services and treats them as a portal. It can open the
portal, make changes to it and close it but it cannot and will not see what's inside the portal.
In other words, whatever happens inside a web Service is a direct connection
between the user and that Service, other Services or the Bartium client cannot see or handle this
information.
While statistics are a big factor in the development of the Client and it is part of the development pipeline
to implement them, there are currently no statistics being gathered about the Bartium Builds.
This privacy policy will include all information about these statistics once they are active and part of
the public builds.
As mentioned, the Website uses Cloudflare for gathering information about its users. More on this later.
In order to provide certain features in any of the services we offer, we rely on 3rd party services.
Not to be confused with the aforementioned Services, the web services handled within Bartium.
Cloudflare collects general information for analytical purposes. This information may include but is not limited to IP addresses, system configuration information, and other information about traffic to and from the Website.
This information is only available to Us, as developers of Bartium, and will never be shared.
Separately from the Bartium client, this website counts visits. There is no cookie banner because the site stores nothing on your device, and nothing is sold, shared with advertisers, or sent to an analytics company.
Who runs it. This site belongs to Bart Kelchtermans. Its analytics are collected with Umami, an open-source package, self-hosted by Andrei Lavrenov on private infrastructure at umami.lav.ren. Stated precisely: the two of us are the only people who see this data. No analytics vendor, advertising network or data broker is involved.
Nothing is stored on your device. The tracker sets no cookies and writes nothing to localStorage, sessionStorage or IndexedDB. The only value it reads is the opt-out flag below, and only if you set it. The EU cookie rule governs storing or reading data on your device — this site does neither.
What is collected. Pages you open (path, title, referring URL); browser, operating system, device type, screen size and language; approximate location — country, region, city — derived from your IP address; loading performance (Core Web Vitals: LCP, FCP, CLS, INP, TTFB) and time on page; clicks on tagged elements; and a recording of roughly one visit in seven.
Session recordings. About 15% of visits are recorded. A recording is not video and not a capture of your screen: the page structure and its text are re-serialised and replayed. Anything typed into a form field is masked inside your own browser before it is sent, so the value never leaves your device. Heatmaps are aggregates built from these recordings.
How a visit is identified. Each visit carries a one-way hash of your IP address, browser user-agent, hostname and site identifier. It cannot be reversed into an IP address and is not reused on other sites, so you are not followed across the web. Your IP address is processed to produce that hash and to resolve the location above. Stated plainly rather than marketed: an IP address is personal data under the GDPR, and a hash made from one is pseudonymous rather than anonymous. The lawful basis is legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f).
Retention. Analytics records are kept until deleted by hand. No automatic expiry is configured.
Your rights. You may request access to data concerning you, request erasure, or object to collection. Because a visit carries only an irreversible hash, your records generally cannot be singled out from anyone else's, which is why the opt-out below is the dependable remedy. For anything else, write to [email protected].
Opt out. This sets one flag in this browser, on this device, which the tracker checks before sending anything. It is the only thing this site ever writes locally.
By using any of the services offered by us, you agree to the collection and usage of data, if applicable, in compliance with the provisions set forth in this privacy policy.
We reserve the right to change and update our privacy policy. The last date at which this is done will always be publicly available.
If you experience any problems or have a burning question, you can get in touch.
