LAST UPDATED · 12 NOVEMBER 2026

Privacy for the interest list.

This notice covers the Lurkster research website and interest list, operated by Andrew McPherson. Lurkster is a proposed product, not an available DFIR service. This website does not accept case evidence.

What you choose to share

Registration collects your email address, role and selected investigation bottleneck. You can optionally provide your organisation, investigation frequency, interest in a future pilot, and permission to be contacted about research. We record the time and wording version of your consent.

How we use it

We use your answers to understand demand, prioritise the concept and send the development updates and launch notification you requested. Research invitations require the separate optional checkbox. We do not sell the list, use it for unrelated marketing or treat registration as agreement to buy anything.

How this website measures interest

We count visits using a random identifier stored for a short session in your browser tab. A registration is associated with that identifier and any simple campaign labels in the link you followed. We do not collect full referring URLs or use advertising cookies. Visit records are kept for up to 90 days and cleared as new visits arrive.

For abuse prevention, we process your IP address to create a temporary keyed hash. We do not store the raw IP address in the signup database. These rate-limit records expire after two hours and are cleared as requests arrive. Cloudflare also processes connection and security information to provide hosting and protect the website.

Where information is held

The website and private signup database are hosted by Cloudflare in the operator’s account. Information may be processed outside your country. Access to the list is restricted to the operator and authorised people helping run Lurkster research. The product’s proposed evidence-hosting design is separate from this website’s signup storage.

Your choices

Use the private removal link shown after your first registration to remove your entry from the active list. Save the downloadable receipt so you retain that link. For access, correction, changed preferences, or removal without the link, email [email protected]. Every future update should include a way to unsubscribe.

Registration is single opt-in: the website records the request, but does not send a confirmation email or verify ownership of the address. If someone registered your address without permission, contact us and we will remove it.

Retention

We will review the interest list within 12 months of registration and delete entries no longer needed for the stated research and launch purpose. If the project is abandoned, we will delete the active list. Removal from the active database does not immediately erase copies held in Cloudflare’s short-term recovery backups; those expire under the service’s retention settings.

Contact

Andrew McPherson · Lurkster
[email protected]