Privacy — No Telemetry

Current version

Importing or running this repository's code does not send version numbers, heartbeats, or usage data to any external server. There is no default-on network call-back of any kind.

Historical disclosure (honest)

From commit 0efd980 (2026-08-10) until v3.6.0-r2, one default-on version telemetry existed: on import, a background thread sent the version number and a locally generated anonymous ID to https://effect-anchored-telemetry.zwiserfit.cn/ping (opt-out via EFFECT_ANCHORED_TELEMETRY=0).

Three verified facts about that period:

The domain never resolved (NXDOMAIN) — the endpoint was unreachable; no telemetry data was ever collected.
The telemetry may have created ~/.effect_anchored_anon_id (a UUID v4) in the user's home directory.
Since v3.6.0-r3, this code has been removed entirely.

# check for a leftover anonymous ID file
ls ~/.effect_anchored_anon_id
# remove it if present
rm ~/.effect_anchored_anon_id
  

Future versions

Any install/usage statistics, if ever introduced, must be: default-off, explicitly asked on first run, field-whitelisted, revocable at any time — and declared in PRIVACY.md beforehand.