I do have an improved version of the official Octothorpes WordPress plugin, but unfortunately the original authors have refused to open-source it, and without an open source license attached to the original files I built on, I can't share it. <rant>I have to express some frustration. I'm extremely disappointed that Octothorpes do not seem to work at all. The whole project is a brilliant idea—I went for it hook, line, and sinker. In fact, I liked it so much that I immediately started working on improving things, such as their extremely lacking WordPress integration plugin... so eagerly, in fact, that I put in a lot of work before testing whether Octothorpes actually work at all. And it appears that they don't. At least, I couldn't ever get them to, despite sinking several long nights into it. Disappointingly, I had to add a lot of unneeded extra structure to my site code to even try and get Octothorpes working—contrary to what the documentation suggested—and even after doing everything right, as confirmed by their debugging tool, my Octothorpes never appeared on their server. Given that I never got it to work and couldn't find anyone who was able to assist me, all the complexity I had to add to my site in the effort—such as serving Octothorpe-specific page versions, like the one you are looking at right now—became needless cruft. So after a few very long nights of fruitlessly spinning my wheels, I've given up, and removed it all again. I have to add that I'm disappointed. I'm not used to showing up enthusiastic to contribute to an open-source project and so quickly winding up walking away with absolutely nothing, no involvement, no ability to use or run it, no interest in my desire to contribute (even code I've already finished!), nothing. Maybe I've been lucky before now. Octothorpes are a brilliant idea, in concept. I hope they work someday, and become a project that might see wide adoption and contribution by enthusiastic developers. (And that the main devs see the value in WordPress plugin developers expressing an interest in authoring OP integrations with WordPress... 43% of the world's websites can't be wrong...) Sorry to rant, but, my site, my several nights of work lost, my prerogative to express it.</rant>Frustrated rant about it here, click to read...
Seeing as how this Octothorpe-compliant low-bandwidth page version serves no purpose anymore (and doesn't contain any code related to the Octothorpe service anymore, except for noticing visitors using URLs referencing it, in order to show this message), you probably want to view the original page in its complete technicolor glory at https://michaelkupietz.com/privacy-policy/.
This website address is: https://michaelkupietz.com. It is the showcase website for creative works by artist and technologist Mike Kupietz, the owner and author of this site, hereinafter referred to as "Mike".
This site is noncommercial and intended 1.) primarily for Mike's entertainment; and 2.) secondarily for yours. No commercial use of your identifying information or resources is ever knowingly made by Mike. Those information and resources are never knowingly shared with others by Mike, except as necessary to resolve technical issues hindering the proper functioning of this site.
Much of this site runs on code personally authored or audited by Mike. The guarantees in this section II pertain to that code.
This site logs standard http header information when you access it: referring page, your public IP address, etc. This information is kept indefinitely for purposes of troubleshooting server performance. Your general physical location, on the town or city level, may be revealed by your IP address.
Information collected as described above is visible to Mike. It is not shared with anyone else.
Some of the front-end widgets may save position or visual settings information about elements displayed in the web page you view in your browser's local storage, for purposes of recreating screen layouts or visual settings as you navigate through the site. This information is saved per-tab and only readable by this site, and only within the original tab you opened this site on. It is stored in such a way as to instruct your browser to delete it when the tab is closed.
The web server serving this site is wholy owned by Mike and hosts nobody else's websites. It is physically situated in a secure location controlled by Mike, behind a firewall and network devices also controlled by Mike.
This site runs on the WordPress content management system. WordPress is open source. Mike has not audited WordPress himself for privacy or security and makes no guarantees regarding it.
This site may contain analytics scripts or images from sites such as Ahrefs.com or other sites, solely for purposes of the site owner understanding how users use the site, which pages are popular, etc. These services may collect use cookies or other techniques to track your use of the site, or may leave cookies or other local storage in your browser.
This site uses third-party WordPress plugins to add functionality and make this site more useful and fun. Every effort is made to ensure plugins do not track or abuse your information or your browser's local storage, but no guarantee is made.
When you browse the image galleries on this site, some image contents may be served from Flickr via their API. In this case Flickr may receive the standard information transmitted in http headers: referrer, your IP address, etc.
The server is backed up onto the servers of a reputable, well-known third party backup service with a strong privacy orientation. These backups contain the web server's logs of your visit. However, the backups are encrypted and readable using only Mike's key.
To increase performance and safeguard against malicious activity, public access to the site is tunneled through Cloudflare's reverse proxy. You may also be accessing this site through other internet services located outside of Mike's network and server location. Your interaction with the site, and the collection use of your identifiable information such as IP address and browsing path through the site, may be governed by CloudFlare's or those other internet service providers' privacy policies.
The entire purpose of third-party scripts, images, code, media, plugins, and services is to make the site more usable for you, the user. No commercial use of your information is knowingly allowed by in connection with your use this site. However, as it is not always possible to fully examine third-party software and services that provide useful functionality, third party services are not covered by the guarantees in section II above.
However, wherever possible, Mike has endeavored to use code he wrote himself rather than rely on third-party code and services, to maintain maximum control and bring as much of the site's functionality as possible under the guarantees in section II.
I don't care about your information. What I do know or save about my site's visitors is solely to help me run the site more reliably or improve it for users. However, while I make every attempt to safeguard your privacy and the use of your private resources, I can make no guarantee about the third party software or services which used on this site with the intent of helping make it more enjoyable.
Mike
July 2025
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