Hi Doug,
Sure, it’s a legit question and we have to update our Readme to make that more clear.
The “cloud service” mentioned is operated by “Access Watch Technologies GmbH”, a company based in Berlin (Germany) with an international team. Our servers are also currently located in Germany, so is your data.
The data sent to our service is usually named “Access Logs”, it’s the metadata about each HTTP request: Method, URL, Headers and IP Address.
Our service is currently in beta and free for all our users. When we will be out of beta, it should stay free for most of our users: small websites and non-commercial websites. For bigger or commercial websites, we plan to charge on the volume of traffic processed.
If you want to know more about us, feel free to visit our website https://access.watch/ or read this blog post explaining our story: https://access.watch/blog/2016/12/introducing-access-watch/
Hope this answered your question!
Fran?ois
