gitmanual

Privacy

Privacy policy

Short version: no accounts, no cookies, no ads, and nothing that identifies you is stored.

Last updated 6 November 2026

What gitmanual stores

  • Manuals for the repos people look up. These are built from public GitHub data and kept so the next visitor gets them instantly.
  • Counts. How often each repo's manual is opened, and “Did you get it running?” answers: the repo, the system (macOS, Windows or Linux) and yes or no. Nothing about who answered.
  • Rate-limit counters. To stop abuse, the number of new repos, AI guides and votes requested in a short window is counted per visitor. A visitor is a scrambled code made from your IP address, the date and a secret; it changes every day, and the IP address itself is never stored. Each counter only counts within its window (at most a day), and expired ones are cleared out regularly.

What stays in your browser

gitmanual sets no cookies. After you answer “Did you get it running?”, your browser's local storage remembers your answer for that repo, so you aren't asked twice. It never leaves your device, and clearing your browser's site data removes it.

Outside services

  • Vercel hosts the site. Like any web host, it handles requests (including your IP address and browser type) and keeps short-lived logs for security and operations. Page views are counted with Vercel Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and reports only totals, such as how many people opened a page.
  • Turso hosts the database that holds what's listed above.
  • GitHub: gitmanual's servers read public repositories from GitHub. Your browser doesn't contact GitHub unless you follow a link there.
  • Facebook: on the Finds page, pressing play on a Reel loads Facebook's video player, which follows Facebook's own privacy policy. Until you press play, nothing on the page comes from Facebook.
  • ShareText: the contact form is provided by sharetext.net. It loads only on the contact page or when you open the Contact dialog. What you write is sent to ShareText and to us, under ShareText's privacy policy.
  • AI chats: the “Ask Claude” and “Ask ChatGPT” buttons open claude.ai or chatgpt.com in a new tab with a prompt about the repo already filled in. gitmanual sends nothing itself; what happens there is between you and that service, under its own privacy policy.

The browser extension, API and MCP server

The browser extension reads only the name of the GitHub repo you're viewing and links to its manual. It makes no requests of its own and collects nothing. The API and the MCP server work like the website: the same rate-limit counters, and nothing else about the caller.

What gitmanual doesn't do

No accounts, no advertising, no tracking across sites, and no selling or sharing of personal data.

Your choices

You can use gitmanual without giving any personal information. If you send a message through the contact form, you can ask for it to be deleted the same way. The site isn't aimed at children.

Changes and questions

If what gitmanual.com stores or shares changes, this page changes first, with a new date at the top. The code is public, so anyone can check it: github.com/zainudinnoori/gitmanual. Questions: contact.