Privacy

Last updated 24 October 2026

Packet Boats runs packet.boats, including the Catboat pages. This page explains what personal data the site handles. For questions or requests, write to contact@packet.boats.

What the site collects

The site sets no cookies and has no tracking pixels or embedded third-party content. Fonts and images are served from packet.boats itself. The only form is the release news sign-up on the Catboat page, described below. Release news emails are different: they count opens and clicks, as described below.

Your language choice (English or 中文) is saved in your browser's local storage so the pages remember it. It never leaves your device.

Hosting

The site is hosted on Cloudflare. To deliver the pages and protect them from attacks, Cloudflare processes technical data such as your IP address, your browser type and the pages you request, under its own privacy policy. We see aggregated traffic statistics, and the IP address of any request Cloudflare blocks as an attack. We don't use this data to identify visitors.

Visit statistics

We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, a small script from Cloudflare that runs on each page. It records the page you view, the site that linked you here, your browser, operating system and device type, your country (worked out from your IP address) and how quickly the page loaded. It doesn't use cookies or local storage, and Cloudflare says it doesn't fingerprint visitors or track them across sites. We only see totals, never individual visitors.

For visitors in the EU and UK, the legal basis is our legitimate interest in knowing how the site is used.

Release news

If you sign up for Catboat release news on the Catboat page, we first send one email to confirm your address. We store nothing until you confirm, and the confirmation link stops working after 7 days. Once you confirm, we keep your email address, the language you chose and when you confirmed, and use them only to send Catboat release news.

• The list is stored with Cloudflare, and the emails are sent through Amazon SES (privacy notice).
• Release news emails count opens and clicks. Each one contains a tiny invisible image, and its links pass through Amazon SES on the way to their pages. When your mail app loads the image or you click a link, Amazon SES records which email it was, the time, your IP address and browser details, and passes that to us. We use it only to count how many people open each issue and which links they follow, and we never store the IP address or browser details. To count each email once, we keep a code for each opened email for 30 days after the issue goes out; after that only the totals remain. We don't look up who opened or clicked. Open counts are rough: mail apps that block images record nothing, and some load every image in advance. The confirmation email and the unsubscribe link aren't tracked.
• Amazon SES also tells us whether each email was delivered, bounced or marked as spam, and stops sending to addresses that bounce or complain. If an email to you bounces permanently or you mark it as spam, we delete your address from the list, as if you had unsubscribed.
• Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing deletes your address from the list straight away.
• The form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to keep bots out. It loads only when you start filling in the form, and for that check it sends Cloudflare technical data such as your IP address and browser details, under Cloudflare's own terms.

For visitors in the EU and UK, the legal basis is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by unsubscribing.

If you email us

When you write to contact@packet.boats, we receive your email address and whatever you include. Our email is hosted by Lark (privacy policy).

• If you ask to hear when Catboat is released, we use your address only to send that one notice.
• Otherwise we use your message only to reply to you.

We keep messages only as long as we need them for that, and delete them when you ask. We don't sell or share your address, and writing to us doesn't add you to release news.

For visitors in the EU and UK, the legal basis is your request (consent) for the release notice, and our legitimate interest in answering messages you send us.

Your rights

You can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, or withdraw your request for the release notice at any time, by writing to contact@packet.boats. The unsubscribe link in every release news email takes you off that list at once. If you are in the EU or UK, you can also complain to your data protection authority.

Where data is processed

Cloudflare, Lark and Amazon Web Services may process data in countries other than yours, including the United States, under their own safeguards.

Changes

When this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.

隐私说明

最后更新：2026 年 10 月 24 日

packet.boats（包括 Catboat 的页面）由 Packet Boats 运营。本页说明网站会处理哪些个人信息。如有问题或请求，请写信到 contact@packet.boats。

网站收集什么

网站不设置 Cookie，也没有追踪像素或嵌入的第三方内容。字体和图片都由 packet.boats 自己提供。网站唯一的表单是 Catboat 页面上的发布消息订阅，见下文。发布消息邮件不同，会统计打开和点击，见下文。

你选择的语言（English 或中文）保存在浏览器的本地存储里，方便页面记住你的选择，不会离开你的设备。

托管

网站托管在 Cloudflare。为了提供页面并防御攻击，Cloudflare 会处理你的 IP 地址、浏览器类型和你访问的页面等技术数据，适用其自己的隐私政策。我们能看到汇总的访问统计，以及被 Cloudflare 判定为攻击而拦截的请求的 IP 地址，不会用这些数据识别访客。

访问统计

我们用 Cloudflare Web Analytics 统计访问量。它是 Cloudflare 提供的一段小脚本，在每个页面上运行，会记录你浏览的页面、把你带到这里的网站、你的浏览器、操作系统和设备类型、你所在的国家（根据 IP 地址判断），以及页面的加载速度。它不使用 Cookie 或本地存储，Cloudflare 表示它不会对访客做指纹识别，也不会跨网站追踪访客。我们只能看到汇总数字，看不到单个访客。

对欧盟与英国的访客，这项统计的法律依据是我们了解网站使用情况的正当利益。

发布消息

如果你在 Catboat 页面订阅 Catboat 发布消息，我们会先发一封邮件确认你的地址。确认之前我们不保存任何信息，确认链接 7 天后失效。确认之后，我们保存你的邮箱地址、你选择的语言和确认的时间，只用于发送 Catboat 发布消息。

• 订阅名单存放在 Cloudflare，邮件经 Amazon SES 发出（隐私声明）。
• 发布消息邮件会统计打开和点击。每封邮件含一张不可见的小图片，邮件里的链接先经过 Amazon SES 再转到目标页面。你的邮件应用加载这张图片或你点击链接时，Amazon SES 会记录是哪一封邮件、时间、你的 IP 地址和浏览器信息，并转给我们。我们只用它统计每期有多少人打开、点击了哪些链接，从不保存 IP 地址和浏览器信息。为了每封邮件只计一次，我们会在每期发出后的 30 天内保留已打开邮件的编号，之后删除，只保留总数。我们不会查看是谁打开或点击。打开数只是大概：屏蔽图片的邮件应用不会留下记录，有些邮件应用会预先加载所有图片。确认邮件和退订链接不做统计。
• Amazon SES 还会告诉我们每封邮件是否送达、被退回或被标记为垃圾邮件，并停止向退信或投诉的地址发送。如果发给你的邮件被永久退回，或你把它标记为垃圾邮件，我们会把你的地址从名单中删除，与退订相同。
• 每封邮件都带一键退订链接。退订后，我们立即从名单中删除你的地址。
• 表单使用 Cloudflare Turnstile 防止机器人提交。它只在你开始填写表单时加载，为完成检查会把你的 IP 地址、浏览器信息等技术数据发给 Cloudflare，适用 Cloudflare 自己的条款。

对欧盟与英国的访客，发布消息的法律依据是你的同意；你随时可以通过退订撤回同意。

给我们发邮件

你写信到 contact@packet.boats 时，我们会收到你的邮箱地址和邮件内容。我们的邮箱由 Lark 托管（隐私政策）。

• 如果你请我们在 Catboat 发布时通知你，你的地址只用于发送这一次通知。
• 其他来信只用于回复你。

邮件只在需要时保留，你提出要求即删除。我们不会出售或分享你的地址，给我们写信也不会让你订阅发布消息。

对欧盟与英国的访客，发布通知的法律依据是你的请求（同意），回复来信的法律依据是我们回应来信的正当利益。

你的权利

你可以随时写信到 contact@packet.boats，询问我们保存了你的哪些信息，要求更正或删除，或撤回发布通知的请求。每封发布消息中的退订链接会立即把你从名单中删除。欧盟或英国的访客也可以向当地的数据保护机构投诉。

数据处理地点

Cloudflare、Lark 与 Amazon Web Services 可能在你所在国家以外（包括美国）处理数据，并适用其各自的保护措施。

变更

本页内容变化时，顶部的日期会随之更新。