Privacy Policy

What we collect

Account details

If you create an account, we store your name, email address, and a salted scrypt hash of your password. We never store your password in a form we can read.

Your submissions

Alternative suggestions, corrections, and switcher reports you send us, together with the account they came from and the time they were sent.

Security records

When you log in or register we record a hashed form of your email address and IP address, plus whether the attempt succeeded. This exists to rate-limit and block credential-stuffing attacks. We store hashes, not the raw values.

Aggregate usage

Which alternatives are opened from a comparison table, counted without any identifier that links the click to you.

Visit statistics

Google Analytics records page views, approximate location (derived from IP address, which Google truncates for this purpose), referring site, device and browser type, and a random identifier stored in a cookie. We use it to see which pages are useful. We do not connect it to your account, and we never see your name or email in it.

What we do not collect

We do not use third-party advertising networks, cross-site tracking pixels, or social login. We do not build advertising profiles, and we do not sell or rent personal data to anyone. Google Analytics is the only third-party service the site loads, and it is used for aggregate visit counting only — not for advertising, and not to follow you to other sites.

Cookies

Session cookie

Set only when you log in. It keeps you signed in and expires after 30 days or when you log out.

Human-check cookie

A short-lived cookie that ties a captcha challenge to your browser so a challenge solved elsewhere cannot be reused. It contains no personal data.

Analytics cookies

Set by Google Analytics to tell one visit apart from another. They contain a randomly generated identifier and expire after up to 13 months. They are not used for advertising and are not shared with advertising networks.

We set no advertising cookies. Because the analytics cookies are set by Google, you can block them without losing access to anything on this site — the pages work identically with them blocked. Your browser's tracking-protection settings, or the Google Analytics opt-out add-on, will stop them.

Why we are allowed to hold it

We process account and submission data to perform the service you asked for, and security records under our legitimate interest in keeping the site available and free of automated abuse. Where consent is the basis, you can withdraw it at any time.

How long we keep it

Accounts

Until you ask us to delete the account.

Published contributions

Switcher reports and accepted suggestions stay in the index after account deletion, but are detached from your account and shown without your name or email.

Security records

Authentication attempts are pruned automatically; the rate-limit window is 15 minutes and records are deleted once they fall outside it.

Your choices

You can ask us for a copy of your personal data, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete your account. Write to [email protected] and we will respond within 30 days. You can also ask us to stop publishing a contribution you made.

Where your data lives

The site runs on a single server we control, and the database is stored on that server. The only exception is visit statistics: page-view data is sent to Google Analytics, which means it is processed by Google on infrastructure outside our server. We send no account details, email addresses, or submission content to Google. Everything else stays on our own server.

Outbound links

Comparison tables link to the websites of the products we write about. Once you follow one of those links you are on someone else's site and their privacy policy applies, not ours.

Changes and contact

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top of the page. Questions about privacy can go to [email protected].