Short version: cocks.io knows your nickname and your e-mail address, and it keeps your IRC messages for as long as you keep your bouncer. There is no tracking, no analytics and no advertising, because there is nobody to sell anything to.
What is stored
| Data | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| IRC nickname | It is your account name on the bouncer. | Until you ask for deletion. |
| Bouncer password | To authenticate your client, and to re-show your connect command on the status page and in the approval e-mail. Only QuakeNet and the bouncer ever see it hashed; the provisioning service itself keeps one plain-text copy of the password it generated for that purpose, and nothing else can read it. | Until the request or account is deleted. |
| E-mail address | Only for the setup mail, password resets, and abuse reports. It is never shown anywhere on the site. | Until you ask for deletion. |
| IRC message buffers | The backlog is the service. Without it there is no bouncer. | While the account exists, then the buffer is dropped. |
| Nick and channel list | So the bouncer can reconnect to them while you are offline. | Until you disconnect or delete. |
| Server logs | Diagnosing connection problems and abuse. | Rotated out within days. |
What is not collected
Who can see what
The operator of this server can read your bouncer, and that includes your message buffers. That is inherent to running a bouncer for you and there is no way around it — if that is not acceptable, do not use the service. Beyond that, nobody: the bouncer speaks to QuakeNet, and neither QuakeNet nor any third party can see your traffic to us or your password.
Where the data lives
On servers in Germany. Transfers are TLS on every port the service listens on, and the web front end is served over HTTPS only. The IRC port is TLS-only as well; there is no unencrypted port open for convenience.
Deleting your data
Mail ninja@cocks.io with your bouncer name. The account, the buffers and the stored e-mail address are deleted by hand. There is no self-service deletion because there is no account portal to delete it from. Expect it to take a couple of days, because it is done by a person.
Contact
Questions about any of this go to ninja@cocks.io. Abuse reports go to the same address and are read first.
Terms
The rules for using the service are in the Terms of Service. This page is the data half of the same agreement, and the two are meant to be read together.