privacy policy

when you submit a post, the platform receives:

• the text you wrote
• the mood you chose (still · tender · raw)
• the life-area tags you chose, if any
• the age bracket you chose
• the country you chose
• the language in which you wrote, detected automatically before translation

that is the entire content of a submission.

what appears publicly with your post. when your post is published, it is shown alongside your mood, your tags, your age bracket, the country you chose, the date and - over time - a count of how many readers tapped "me too". these appear so readers can find and relate to posts like their own. they are deliberately broad: an age range, not your age; a country, not a city or location. the language you wrote in is used only to offer translation - it is not shown as a label. none of these fields, alone or together, identifies you.

• your name
• your email address
• your phone number
• any login or account credentials, because there are no accounts
• precise location data - country is selected by you and is the only geographic information stored
• your contact list, your social profiles or anything from another service
• biometric or facial data of any kind

to keep the platform running and to prevent abuse (spam, automated submissions, coordinated attacks), we briefly log technical information that any website receives by default:

• your IP address, retained for a short period - typically 30 days - and then deleted
• the browser and operating system you are using, in general terms
• the date and time of your visit
• the pages you opened on the platform

this information is held separately from post content. it is not linked to your submissions in our database and we do not use it to build a profile of you.

seen&heard uses the smallest possible number of cookies:

• a session cookie that keeps the platform working as you move between pages
• a preference cookie that remembers small choices, like which mood you are reading in

we do not use analytics cookies, advertising or marketing cookies, or cross-site tracking of any kind. because we use only strictly necessary cookies, no cookie banner is shown.

a small number of services run on the page for the platform to look and behave correctly. each is named here.

fonts - Literata and Inter are loaded from Google Fonts. when a typeface loads from Google's CDN, Google logs the IP address making the request. for users in jurisdictions that consider this a data transfer, this is the only third-party request the platform makes. we do not load any tracking, analytics or advertising scripts.

translation - posts written in a language other than English are translated automatically so they can be read across the platform. to do this, the text is sent to [name of translation provider, to be confirmed] and is subject to their privacy practices. you can review and edit the translated version before posting. both the original and the translated text are stored on seen&heard's servers.

hosting - the platform is hosted on [provider, to be confirmed]. all data described above is stored on servers managed by them, under standard hosting agreements.

people review submissions. a small moderation team has access to post content, the metadata listed above and the temporary technical logs needed to identify abuse patterns. moderators do not have any information that could identify a writer personally, because we do not collect any.

published posts stay in the space indefinitely, unless removed by us or at your request
rejected or removed submissions are deleted within a reasonable period - typically 30 days - once moderation is complete
technical logs (IP, browser data) are deleted within approximately 30 days
translation records follow the same lifecycle as the post itself

depending on where you live, you may have rights under data-protection laws such as the GDPR (EU/UK) or local equivalents - including the right to access information held about you, to ask for it to be corrected or to ask for it to be deleted.

because seen&heard does not hold anything that identifies you, the most meaningful version of these rights, for this platform, is the right to ask that a specific post be removed or further anonymised. that channel is open to anyone who wrote a post and can describe it well enough for us to find it.

to make a request, write to us via contact & requests. we will respond within a reasonable time.

if you are writing from outside Israel, your post will be transmitted to and stored on servers that may be located in another country. by submitting a post, you understand and accept this transfer. where required by law, we rely on standard contractual clauses or equivalent safeguards.

seen&heard is not designed for, marketed to or intended for use by anyone under 18 years of age. we do not knowingly collect submissions from children. if we discover that a submission came from someone under 18, we will remove it.

if this policy changes, the last updated date at the top of the page will change with it. we will not retroactively reduce the protections described here without making the change clearly visible.

privacy questions, removal requests - or anything else - go to contact & requests.