Privacy

Last updated 24 October 2026

Options Meerkat (optchain) is a terminal program. This page says what is kept about you when you use this website, sign up for the shared server at api.optionsmeerkat.com, and use it. If you run your own server, none of it reaches us.

This website

It sets no cookies and keeps nothing that tells one visitor from another.
Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views: the page, where the visit came from, the country, and the kind of device, as totals.
The page records what is clicked on it (a button, the terminal tried) as counts, without anything about who clicked.

Signing up

You sign in with GitHub, with Google, or with a code mailed to your address. Each only shows which email address is yours:

GitHub: we ask for your account's email addresses and take the primary one, which GitHub must have verified.
Google: we ask only for openid and email, and take the address Google says is verified.
Email: a six-digit code is sent to the address you type, through Resend, our mail provider.

Nothing else is read from GitHub or Google: not your name, picture, repositories, or contacts. The access they give is used once, to learn the address, and not kept. While you sign in, your browser keeps the address for 30 minutes in a cookie on api.optionsmeerkat.com, so you need not sign in twice.

What the server keeps

Your email address, as the name of your tokens (one per machine, for example you@example.com+laptop), in the list of addresses that asked to sign up, and in the server's log of sign-ups and admin changes. The operator is told of each sign-up.
Your tokens, stored only as hashes.
How the server is used, a day at a time: how many requests each token made, to which kinds of route, how long they took, and the program version that made them. Kept for 400 days. Which symbols you looked up is not kept per person.
The chat: how many questions you asked and how much they took, for the daily quota, but not what you asked. To be answered, a question is sent to the language model provider the server uses.

The server's data is backed up daily to storage at Cloudflare; daily copies are deleted after 8 days and weekly ones after 29.

What we do not do

We do not sell or share your address, or use it for anything but your tokens and, rarely, a word about the server itself.
We do not send marketing mail.

Leaving

optchain logout revokes the token of the machine it runs on. To have every token revoked and your address removed from the server, write to optionsmeerkat@gmail.com (or @OptionsMeerkat on X), and it is done by hand.