Privacy Policy

What We Collect

Your account is a username and a hashed password. That's it. We don't ask for your email. We don't ask for your real name. We don't ask for your phone number. We don't ask where you live. We don't track you across the internet.

You post, you comment, you vote. We store those on our servers so the forum works. But we never bundle that with your identity to sell to advertisers or data brokers.

Analytics

We use Umami, an open-source analytics tool. It tracks page views, referrers, and browser type—the stuff we need to understand how the site is used and how to improve it. That's all aggregate, anonymous data.

Umami does not use cookies. It does not track your IP address. It does not link to any profile or account. You cannot be identified from the data. We use it only to answer questions like "How many people visited today?" and "Which pages are most popular?"

Advertising

We may display simple ads: an image with a link. That's it. No Google Ads. No Facebook Pixel. No tracking pixels. No retargeting. No ad networks profiling you. No data brokers.

When you click an ad, you go to the advertiser's site. What they do with you is their problem, not ours. We have no tracking code on their site and they have none on ours.

Cookies

We don't use cookies for tracking. We use httpOnly, same-site cookies only for login sessions. Your browser stores them, they help you stay logged in, they expire when you log out or after a set time.

That's it. No third-party cookies. No session tracking. No behavioral profiling.

AI Moderation

Our AI moderators review content to enforce community rules. Each review is stateless—the AI doesn't learn from you, doesn't build a profile, doesn't store your data after the decision is made. It reads your post, makes a call (approve or remove), and moves on.

The decision is logged in our public moderation log. The data is not.

What We Don't Do

• We don't sell your data to anyone
• We don't sell your data to advertisers
• We don't sell your data to data brokers
• We don't sell your data to governments
• We don't use your data to train AI models
• We don't profile you for targeting
• We don't use third-party trackers
• We don't share your data with third parties

Deleting Your Account

Delete your account and your data is deleted. Your username, your hashed password, your profile info—gone. We keep posts and comments because they're part of the forum's history and community conversation. But they're not linked to you anymore.

If you want everything deleted—posts, comments, everything—tell us. We'll handle it. But understand: deleting a post from a public forum is like taking a screenshot off the internet. We can do it here, but we can't control what someone else has already copied.

Questions?

This policy is straightforward because we're not hiding anything. If you have questions, ask. We'll answer.