Privacy policy
This policy explains what personal data this website handles, why, and what you can do about it. The controller is Luís Miguel, a private individual in Portugal, reachable at quicksaver@gmail.com. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies.
When you read pages
The hosting provider, Vercel, receives your IP address, browser details, and the address of each page you request, as any web server does. It uses them to deliver the page and protect the site, and keeps them in short-lived logs.
The site counts visits with PostHog, an analytics service hosted in the EU. What it records depends on your cookie choice:
- Before you choose, and if you refuse: page views only, without cookies. PostHog tells visitors apart with a hash it computes on its own servers from your IP address and browser details, and your browser keeps only a note that analytics cookies are off.
- If you accept analytics: page views, interactions such as sharing a page, how far you read on longer pages and how long that took, and errors the page ran into. PostHog then keeps an identifier in a cookie so repeat visits count once.
Analytics stay anonymous. They are never linked to your account, your name, or your comments, and they never run on the site's private tools. Addresses that carry sign-in codes or private links are removed from every event before it leaves your browser. The cookie policy lists exactly what is stored and lets you change your choice.
When you sign in
You sign in with GitHub or Google only to comment or give a thumbs up. The provider shares your name, profile picture, account ID, and email address, and GitHub also shares your username. Your name, picture, and GitHub username are shown next to what you post.
Your email address is stored so that signing in with GitHub and with Google gives you one account when both providers confirm the same verified address. It is never shown to anyone. An address a provider has not verified is never used to join accounts.
Your session is kept in your browser's storage until you sign out.
What you post
Your comments and thumbs up are stored with the time you made them and the page they belong to. Comments are public. When a page is taken down, what was posted on it is hidden but kept, so that it still appears in your data download and is deleted with your account.
Comments go through Vercel BotID, which checks that a real browser sent them.
Why, and on what basis
- Showing your comments and thumbs up, and keeping you signed in, is how the site provides the service you asked for (GDPR Article 6(1)(b)).
- Protecting the site from abuse, and counting visits without cookies, are my legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)).
- Analytics with cookies run only with your consent (Article 6(1)(a)), which you can withdraw at any time from "Cookie settings" in the footer.
Who processes it
- Vercel hosts the site and runs BotID.
- Convex stores accounts, comments, and thumbs up, on servers in the United States.
- PostHog processes analytics in the EU.
- GitHub and Google handle the sign-in itself under their own privacy policies.
Vercel and Convex may process data in the United States. They rely on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission's standard contractual clauses for that transfer.
How long it is kept
Your account, comments, and thumbs up are kept until you delete them. A session that goes unused for a year expires. Your cookie choice is kept for a year, then the banner asks again.
Your rights
You can access, download, correct, and delete your data, object to its use, and withdraw consent. Most of it is self-service:
- Download my data gives you a JSON file with your profile, including your email, and everything you posted, including what is hidden.
- Delete my account removes your account, every sign-in linked to it, your sessions, your comments, and your thumbs up. Replies other people wrote to your comments stay.
- Your name and picture follow your GitHub or Google profile and update the next time you sign in.
Both controls are below, and on the cookie policy page. They cover what this site holds, never your GitHub or Google account itself. For anything else, write to quicksaver@gmail.com. You can also complain to the Portuguese data protection authority, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (cnpd.pt).
The site is not meant for children under 16.
Last updated: 13 October 2026.