BitBOINC
Privacy and terms
Last updated: 12 October 2026. This policy applies to everyone, wherever you live, and follows the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law no. 6698 (KVKK).
bitboinc is run by one person. This page explains what personal data the site holds, why, who else sees it, and how you can have it corrected or deleted. It is also the information notice required by Article 10 of the Turkish law no. 6698.
Who can use this site
To use this site you must be at least 18 years old, or of legal age (the age of majority) in your country.
Who is responsible
Alperen Yavuz, an individual, Turkey (the data controller). Contact: send a private message to the user “Alperen Yavuz” on this site.
What we store
| Data | Details |
|---|---|
| Account | Email address, user name, password (only as a hash, never in clear text), the date the account was created, your preferences, team, signature and web address if you set them, and a country if you chose one. Postal code is not asked for. |
| Your computers | What the BOINC client reports: computer name, operating system, processor and graphics card models, memory and disk sizes, benchmark values, time zone and the IP address the computer connects from. Android: the version of our app. |
| Your work | The tasks your computers received and returned, their run times and the credit granted. |
| Community | Forum posts and private messages, and the profile text or picture you choose to add. |
| Optional publication credit | Only if you open the “credit me in scientific publications” page and choose to be named: the real name and country you enter. They are printed in the acknowledgements of the scientific papers we publish, for example a Research Note of the American Astronomical Society (RNAAS). If you never do, you are only counted, never named. |
| Technical logs | The web server and the work scheduler log IP addresses and requests. Web server logs are rotated daily and kept for 14 days; scheduler logs are kept only as long as needed to find problems. |
| Cookies | Only what the site needs: login, language and theme. Cloudflare may set its own security cookies. |
Why we use it
- To run the project you signed up for: hand out tasks, check and credit results, show statistics, badges and the forum (legal basis: the service you asked for, GDPR Art. 6(1)(b), KVKK Art. 5/2-c).
- To keep the service safe and working: stop abuse, cheating and duplicate accounts, find faulty computers or software (legitimate interest, GDPR Art. 6(1)(f), KVKK Art. 5/2-f).
- To write to you: password resets, account notices and, depending on your account settings, project news (you can switch the news off in your account settings).
- To thank volunteers in scientific publications (for example a Research Note of the American Astronomical Society, RNAAS), only if you chose to be named: your name and country are then printed in the acknowledgements (your explicit consent, GDPR Art. 6(1)(a), KVKK Art. 5/1).
We do not sell personal data and do not use it for advertising.
What is public
Your user name, credit, team, badges, join date, the country you set, your profile and forum posts, and the leaderboards on the progress pages. Your computers are listed on your public page unless you switch that off in your account settings. Your email address is never shown.
If you chose to be named in publications, your name and country will appear in the acknowledgements of the papers that use results from your computers. A paper that has been published cannot be changed afterwards, so please decide with that in mind. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time; it then applies to publications that have not been published yet.
Who else is involved
- Cloudflare: the site is served through Cloudflare (CDN and protection), so web traffic passes through its network, which may be outside the EU and Turkey.
- Resend: sends our emails (account and notification mail).
- Statistics sites: like most BOINC projects, bitboinc publishes statistics files with each user’s user name, cross-project ID (CPID), credit, team and country (if you set one). Statistics sites such as BOINCstats and our own Aster (aster.athena.org.tr) use them, so this information is public and is copied outside this site. There is no separate switch for it: choose a user name that does not reveal who you are and leave the country empty if you do not want it shown. Showing your computers is a separate preference.
- Zenodo (CERN): we publish finished result data sets there. They contain scientific results only, no personal data.
The server itself is operated by us in Turkey. Data is transferred abroad only because of the services above and only as far as the service requires.
How long we keep it
While your account exists. If you ask us to delete it, we remove or anonymise it (user name changed, email removed). The scientific results your computers returned stay as anonymous data. Forum posts may be anonymised instead of removed so threads stay readable.
Your rights
Under the Turkish law (KVKK Art. 11) and the GDPR (Arts. 15-21) you have the right to: learn whether your personal data is processed and ask for information about it; learn the purpose of the processing and whether it is used accordingly; know the third parties in Turkey or abroad to whom it is transferred; ask for correction if it is incomplete or wrong; ask for deletion or destruction and have this notified to those third parties; object to a result against you that comes from analysis by automated systems; and claim compensation if you suffer damage from unlawful processing. Under the GDPR you can also restrict the processing, receive your data in a portable format and withdraw consent you gave.
How to apply
Send a private message to the contact above while logged in (writing from your account lets us confirm who you are); we answer within 30 days. If you are not satisfied with the answer you can complain to your data protection authority (in Turkey: the Personal Data Protection Board; in the EU: the authority of your country).
Using your computer: your responsibility
Taking part means your computer (processor and graphics card) works hard for long periods, which means more heat, more electricity and more wear. You decide whether, when and how much it computes, using the BOINC preferences and the preferences on this site. Any fault, damage, data loss, overheating, hardware wear, higher electricity costs or other problem that may occur on your devices while computing is your own responsibility, and the project and its operator are not liable for it, to the extent the law allows. The software and the web site are provided “as is”, without any warranty. Please make sure your hardware is cooled properly, limit the processor and graphics card use in the preferences if needed, keep backups of your data, and only run bitboinc on computers you own or have the owner’s permission to use.
Your internet connection
Computing means downloading task files and uploading results, from a few megabytes to about a hundred megabytes per task depending on the application. If your connection is metered or limited, you can limit the traffic in your BOINC computing preferences (download rate, upload rate and daily transfer limit).
Rules, blocking and banning
To keep the project fair and safe we can block or ban accounts, computers or forum access, with or without notice, for example for: returning false or fabricated results, cheating or tampering with the software or the data, using several accounts to gain credit, using computers you are not allowed to use, attacking or overloading the servers, spam, harassment, hate speech, illegal content or other abuse in the forum and in messages. Results and credit obtained that way can be removed. For this purpose we keep the account, computer and IP address data involved for as long as needed (legitimate interest, GDPR Art. 6(1)(f), KVKK Art. 5/2-f). If you think a block or ban is a mistake you can write a private message to the project developer; the decision is ours.
Changes
If this page changes, the date above changes with it.