Some technical background

Certainly, some of you may wonder whether our website and app are collecting user data or pose a security risk. Therefore here are some details on the implementation.

The App does not use any unnecessary third party libraries. Users can’t be identified. The vote counting is run through a google service, which we consider legitimate, as the app is bound to Google’s play store anyway. This frees us from implementing a reliable and secure vote counting mechanism. After all, since Google keeps its 15 % share, we believe its fair to use their infrastructure for this.

The website is just a collection of static, non-interactive html-pages. There is not much going on in the background, certainly no user identification, ad placement and the like. By the way, it is build with the awesome template engine Jekyll.

Finally, the server that is delivering this page is hosted at boerde.de, a non-commercial association of IT enthusiasts. As any web server, accesses are stored in log files, which are flushed periodically.

Feel free to contact us if you have queries or recommendations!