What is visible and what stays private

Your profile (username, display name, bio and profile photo) and your published stories, photos and comments are public and may appear in search engines.

Your drafts and content under review are visible only to you and the moderators.

Your email address is never shown on any page and is not shared with other members. Only you see the stories you saved. Your warnings and suspensions are visible only to you and the moderators.

When you like a story or a comment, its owner — and when you follow someone, that person — sees your name in their in-site notifications; nobody else sees these notifications. Like counts are public.

Photos are resized and re-encoded in your browser before they are uploaded. This also removes most embedded data such as location and camera details.

There are no ads, analytics or tracking tools on this site. We never sell your data or use it for advertising.

Connections are encrypted (HTTPS). You sign in with Google or with your email address and password. Your password is stored only as an irreversible hash; we cannot see it either. When your password changes, we send a notice to your email address. Every data read is limited by access rules.

You can delete your account at any time on the Settings page. Deletion cannot be undone: your stories, photos, comments, likes, saved stories, follows, in-site notifications (both the ones you received and the ones your likes, comments and follows sent to others) and account are permanently deleted. Reports you sent remain without your name or note.

If we change this policy, the date at the top of this page changes; we also tell you about important changes by email.