Privacy Policy

1. What we collect

When creating or accessing an account, we collect your email address for authentication and notifications. Alongside it we store timestamps, technical metadata, and a truncated user-agent string used to protect against abusive or scripted submissions.

We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages people read. It sets cookies in your browser and sends Google a record of the pages you view, along with your approximate location and device type. We use it to know whether anyone is finding this site. We do not use advertising cookies, remarketing, session replay, or anything that records what you type.

If you would rather not be counted, any content blocker or your browser's Do Not Track setting will stop it, and nothing on this site breaks when it is blocked.

2. Where it is stored

The service is securely hosted with data stored in managed cloud databases with strict access control. Signups and authentication requests are processed securely. Nobody outside authorized infrastructure receives it.

3. What we do with it

We use your email strictly to authenticate you, send critical service updates, and manage your account. We will not add you to marketing spam lists, and we will never sell, rent or share your data with advertisers.

Every email notification contains unsubscribe or communication preference controls.

4. Anonymous posting

Inside the product, anonymous posts are decoupled from your account at the storage layer, not simply hidden in the interface. The post record holds a pseudonym identifier; it does not hold a foreign key back to your account, and there is no internal admin view that joins the two.

This means we genuinely cannot tell you who wrote an anonymous post, including when we would quite like to. That is the intended trade-off. Standard abuse handling operates on the pseudonym.

5. Your rights

You can ask us at any time for a copy of everything associated with your address, or ask us to delete it. Deletion is real deletion, meaning the record is removed rather than tombstoned, and we complete these requests within 30 days.

Depending on where you live you may have additional rights under the GDPR, the UK GDPR, or the CCPA. Exercising any of them costs you nothing and we will not ask why.

6. Children

Humanverse is not directed at anyone under 16 and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a minor has given us their email address, write to us and we will remove it.

7. Changes

If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect or who receives it, we will notify registered users before the change takes effect rather than quietly updating the date at the top of this page.