Privacy

Your inferred lean is sensitive information

In communities that label political lean, your votes on labelled posts give us a private estimate of your lean, used only to balance your feed. Nobody sees it, you included. Political opinions are sensitive information under Australia's Privacy Act, and inferring them counts as collecting them, so we ask for your consent when you join. You can delete your account at any time, which erases your votes, your lean ratings and that estimate.

What we keep

• Your email address, username, display name and bio.
• Your posts, comments, votes, lean ratings, saved posts and follows.
• Your poll, survey and story answers. Others only see totals; written survey answers are not shown to anyone.
• Your settings, notifications, mutes and blocks.
• If you answer a poll, survey or story without an account, your browser keeps your answers and a random guest ID. We store the answers under that ID to count them in the results, apart from members' answers; they aren't linked to you. If you sign up, they move to your account.
• For sign-in: session records with your IP address and browser, and a session cookie. A theme cookie and a cookie for this session's balanced-feed choice are also set.
• Reports you make, and moderation actions involving you.

Who processes it

• Vercel hosts the site; Neon hosts the database.
• Vercel Web Analytics counts page views without cookies; views aren't linked to your account.
• Resend sends sign-in emails.
• Google or GitHub, if you sign in with them.
• Cloudflare Turnstile checks sign-ins for bots, when enabled.
• Sentry receives error reports, when enabled.

We don't sell your information or show advertising.

Your choices

• Edit your profile and notification settings in Settings.
• Delete your account in Settings. Your posts and comments stay, shown as “[deleted]”, unless you delete them first.
• You can ask the site admins for a copy of your information or to correct it. You can also complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.