What is Trackula

We want you to know the digital world we live in: the reach of your data, and the consequences of being tracked over the web for your personal freedom. We defend your right to privacy and work to raise awareness about the consequences of overspreading personal information. We think this is very important to you, no matter who you are.

The Trackula on the Web browser addon shows you in an interactive visualization how data about you spreads on the web and which web-tracking companies are aware of the content you visit every day. We do that without saving, selling or even sending your personal information to anyone: all the data you generate stays on your own computer. Our only intention is that you are aware of this seemingly hidden information so that you can empower yourself with criticism over this situation.

This is an activist project that started at Medialab-Prado in Madrid.

The infograph below is not yet translated

Some tools

Privacy statement

Trackula does not just show the user the issues about privacy on the web, but actively tries to respect them on that instance. Thus, the authors of this web do not gather any personally-identifying data of users in a direct or indirect manner.

However, privacy is a complicated matter. By the very action of visiting this website, a series of technical traces may have been generated, which are impossible to avoid. Among them: you have performed a DNS request to some server outside of our control (probably your Internet Service Provider, or some public DNS, such as Google, OpenDNS or CloudFlare). In the case the DNS server didn't have the DNS reply cached, they will have performed a DNS request to CloudFlare, our Authoritative DNS provider for this domain.

The server that is actually serving this website is either Netlify or Gitlab Pages, so either of those companies might be logging accesses to this webpage, including the user's IP address, and those data the browser provides, such as User-Agent information, acceptable languages or operating system.

Given the technical difficulty, careful consideration has been taken on minimizing exposure of information to third parties. In particular, we use our own domain name and we do not load third-party resources or resources from CDNs. This prevents most of the browser tracking mechanisms.

Keep in mind that in order for this website to reach your browser, many more entities have routed it through them. In particular, your Internet Services Provider, as well as all the Autonomous Systems on the Internet that have been involved in the IP interconnect from Netlify/Gitlab through your ISP.

Netlify, Gitlab and CloudFlare offer these services self-provisioned for free, and Trackula does not receiv any kind of information or benefit, or has any ongoing deal or contract with Netlify, CloudFlare nor Gitlab diferring from the publicly available on their websites.

Legal information

Trackula.org was one of the eight collaborative-development projects that were selected for co-hosting in the International Workshop on Data Visualization "Visualizar'17: Migraciones" (Visualize'17: Migrations), celebrated on Medialab-Prado, Madrid, between 15 and 30 sept. 2017.

Medialab-Prado, is owned by the Madrid City Council through Madrid Destino Cultura y Turismo S.A. with VAT ID A-84073105 and address in Madrid, Calle Conde Duque, 9-11, 2ª planta, 28015 Madrid.

MADRID DESTINO only promotes and welcomes the project developed by the working group that participated in the workshop without participating in their management or collecting personal data from users. Interested people they can contact the working group Trackula.org through the GitHub platform, as Registered users of the such, and being of application the privacy policy of said platform, available at https://help.github.com/articles/github-privacy-statement/

Contacta con Trackula en

• Github
• Email