Privacy policy
We collect the minimum: exactly what likes, comments, spam protection and visit statistics need.
1. What we collect
An anonymous session identifier in a cookie — so that one like counts once.
A hash of your IP address and of your User-Agent — for rate limiting and spam protection. The hash is computed with a server-side secret.
When signing in with Telegram Login — the profile data Telegram passes: id, name, username and photo, if public.
Technical request logs, without raw IP addresses.
Anonymised visit statistics via Yandex Metrica — see section 5.
2. Why
Spam and vote-stuffing protection, showing the comment author, diagnosing site errors.
We do not use the data for advertising profiling and do not pass it to third parties except the Yandex Metrica statistics service (section 5) and where the law directly requires it.
3. What we do NOT collect
Email addresses, payment data, precise geolocation, clipboard contents or any data the site neither shows nor uses. Raw IP addresses are not stored on our servers.
4. Cookies
locale — the chosen interface language, one year.
The likes and comments session cookie — a signed anonymous identifier, up to one year, httpOnly and Secure.
A CSRF token — a technical form cookie, session lifetime.
Yandex Metrica sets its own cookies (_ym_uid, _ym_d and others prefixed _ym) to tell repeat visits from new ones. No advertising cookies are set.
5. Analytics
The site runs a Yandex Metrica counter (YANDEX LLC). It receives visit data: the page address and where you came from, device and browser type, an approximate region from the IP address, clicks, scrolling and the course of the session on the page (Webvisor).
We only see this data as aggregate statistics and never link it to a Telegram profile. Yandex terms of data processing: https://yandex.ru/legal/metrica_termsofuse/.
You can opt out with an ad blocker or the official Yandex extension: https://yandex.ru/support/metrica/general/opt-out.html.
6. Retention
Technical logs — 30 days. Raw source page excerpts — 7 days. Internal records of model decisions — 14 days.
Comments and likes are kept while the event exists or until you ask us to delete them.
7. Your rights
You can ask us to delete your comments and profile — write to us with a link to the comment or your Telegram username.
You can refuse cookies in your browser; likes and comments will then stop working.