Privacy

Updated: 12.10.2026.

Traffic counters

Two counters run on all pages, to understand which sections visitors need:

• Yandex Metrica — visits, referral sources, clicks and scrolling; Webvisor is on, which records actions on the page (mouse movements, clicks, scrolling) in anonymised form. The data is processed by Yandex under its privacy policy.
• Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics — Tag Manager loads the Google counters; they record visits, referral sources, the device and the browser. The data is processed by Google under its privacy policy.

The counters set their own cookies and receive the IP address, the page address and the type of device and browser. The site author sees only summary statistics and session recordings without names or contacts. You can opt out with an ad blocker, the browser's tracking protection or the extensions Google Analytics Opt-out and Yandex Metrica opt-out — the site works fully without counters.

Like any web server, the site's server keeps technical request logs: the IP address, the page address, the time and the browser. They are needed to run and protect the site and are not passed to anyone.

What is saved in the browser

• Site language (Russian, English, Uzbek in Latin and Cyrillic script) is set by the page address: the links “Русский · English · Oʻzbekcha · Ўзбекча” lead to the same page in another version. The browser remembers nothing.
• Scanner camera — if you chose the phone's rear camera with the “Another camera” button, its number is saved in the browser (localStorage) so that the scanner opens it straight away next time. It is not sent to the server.
• The author's service cookies (notes_token, show_notes, show_conf, hide_notes) appear only for the administrator after logging in on a service page. An ordinary visitor does not have them.

Search, scanner and EXIF viewer

Code search runs in the browser: the site loads the code index and searches in it. If there are several matches or none, the results page opens — the entered code ends up in its address (?q=…) and, like any page address, into the server logs and the counters.

The barcode scanner turns on the camera only when you press the button and with your permission. Frames are recognised right in the browser, video and pictures are not sent anywhere; the camera turns off after recognition, with the “Close” button and when you leave the tab.

View EXIF also reads the chosen photo in the browser: the file, its date and coordinates are not sent to the server. The result is hidden from Metrica Webvisor recording, and links to maps with the photo's coordinates open directly, without the redirect page /go/, so the shooting location reaches neither the counters nor the server log. Likewise, the EXIF removalalso runs in the browser: the photo is cleaned on the device and is not sent.

External services

• Maps: the map background images (tiles) are loaded from the OpenStreetMap, Esri or CARTO servers — they receive your IP address and the part of the map you are viewing.
• Links to Google Maps, Yandex Maps, organization websites and barcode search open in a new tab through the site's redirect page (/go/): the link address goes into the server log — this is how the author sees which links visitors need. The external site does not receive the address of the page you came from.

People and personal data in photos

Photos are taken for the sake of price tags, shop windows, signboards and objects, not people. Every photo is reviewed before publication:

• photos in which the photographer or private life is visible in a reflection or in the frame are not published;
• photos with people in the frame — passers-by, sellers, children, even small and far away — are flagged and checked by hand: faces are blurred, or the photo is withdrawn from publication;
• sellers' names are not written — only the name of the place or the product;
• for price records without a photo no image, quantities or sums are published — only goods, prices and the date;
• the site holds reduced copies of photos without the camera's service data (EXIF). The date and place of shooting are shown separately — they are needed to understand when and where a price applied.

How to remove a photo or data

If a photo shows you, your car, your house or other personal data, or an organization wants to correct information about itself, write to the author through the contacts page and attach a link to the photo or the page. The photo will be removed or the face blurred in the next site update; a photo that has been removed also disappears from the map and from the feed.

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