Paulitakes

Privacy Policy

Effective: July 14, 2026

What we collect

You can sign in with Google or Discord — there's no email/password option. When you sign in, we store the name, email address, and avatar URL your provider gives us, along with your account role and account timestamps. A session cookie keeps you signed in; each sign-in session record includes the IP address and browser user-agent used to create it.

If you like a post or comment, we store which account liked which post or comment and when.

Comments & moderation

Comments are plain text. Every comment you submit is stored along with its moderation status. To keep the site family-friendly, your comment text is sent to an AI model (Anthropic's Claude, via Vercel AI Gateway) for automated moderation, and we keep a moderation audit record (verdict, reason, model, and latency) alongside the comment. Comments may be automatically rejected or held for review, and repeated rejections can lead to an automatic ban from commenting.

Analytics

We record page views to understand what people read, but not who reads it. Each view is tagged with an anonymized visitor hash — a one-way salted hash of your IP address and browser user-agent, where the salt rotates daily. This means the same visitor can be distinguished across page views on a given day, but not correlated from one day to the next. We never store your raw IP address or user-agent for analytics, and we don't use analytics cookies. Known bots and crawlers are excluded from analytics entirely.

Cookies & local storage

Aside from the sign-in session cookie described above, the only other thing we keep in your browser is your theme preference (light, dark, or system) in localStorage. That preference never leaves your device.

Third-party services

We don't run ads, use third-party trackers, or sell your personal data.

Data retention & deletion

You can delete your own account at any time from your account page. Deleting your account permanently removes your account, your sign-in identity, and your likes.

Your comments aren't deleted outright — they're anonymized. We clear the author, the comment text, and the moderation record, leaving an authorless "[deleted]" placeholder only where it's needed to keep other people's reply threads intact; otherwise the comment disappears from display entirely.

If you're an author, any unpublished drafts you wrote are deleted along with your account; published articles must first be transferred or removed by the site owner.

If you have any other questions or requests about your data, email paulitakesweb@gmail.com.

Changes

We may update this policy as the site evolves. Material changes will update the effective date above.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email paulitakesweb@gmail.com.