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Anton edited this page Aug 1, 2022 · 7 revisions

This page describes Medium Export Helper collects, uses, and discloses information about you.

Collection of Information

To use this service you have to upload a copy of your Medium archive. This archive is then stored on the server for the duration of the request. Once we finish using it to generate a new archive, we delete the original upload as well as any other artifacts. Once you download your new archive, we delete it as well. If our in-process cleanup fails, we also run a daily job to delete any uploaded/generated files older than seven days.

This service doesn't have any client-side trackers.

Logs

To maintain this service and diagnose any problems with it, we store some server-side logs. Logs are deleted after seven days.

Access logs

These are typical web server access logs, stored in the following format:

127.0.0.1 - - [01/Aug/2022:04:34:11 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 396 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.5060.134 Safari/537.36"

They include the following information about you:

  1. Your public IP address
  2. Date when you accessed a particular page
  3. HTTP information (method, path, version)
  4. Your browser's user agent identifier

Application logs

These logs allow us to diagnose any issues, if any. They're stored in the following format:

Aug  1 05:11:35 <server name> meh[8173]: [<randomly generated request id>]2022/08/01 05:11:35 <message>

These logs may include the name of the file you uploaded and its contents. You can inspect our application logs by reading the source code for this service.

Uses of Information

We use information only to provide and maintain this service.

Disclosure of Information

We don't share your information. However, we may disclose whatever logs we have if we receive a lawful request by law enforcement.

Questions

If you have any questions create an issue or send an email.

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