Privacy Policy

Who we are

This website and its forum are run by TurcoLabs. If you have a question about your data, write to [email protected].

What we store

• Account: your email address, username, optional display name, bio, avatar image and profile links (Instagram, LinkedIn, GitHub, X, website), and your password as a salted PBKDF2 hash (we never store the password itself).
• GitHub sign-in: if you use it, your GitHub user ID and your verified primary email address. We do not get your GitHub password.
• Google sign-in: if you use it, Google gives us your Google account ID, your email address, your name and your profile picture. We use them only to sign you in: we keep the account ID and the email address, use your name as your display name, and do not store the picture. We do not get your Google password.
• Forum content: the topics and comments you write, images you upload, and the topics and comments you upvote.
• Sign-in session: a random token in a cookie; we keep only a hash of it. It expires after 30 days or when you sign out.
• Abuse protection: your IP address is kept briefly (at most one day) to limit repeated sign-in and sign-up attempts. Sign-in and sign-up forms use Cloudflare Turnstile to tell people from bots.

What is public

Your username, display name, avatar, bio, profile links, join date, topic and comment counts and everything you post on the forum can be seen by anyone. Your email address is never shown.

Where it is stored

Account and forum data are stored in a Turso database in the European Union (Ireland). Uploaded images and the website itself are served by Cloudflare. We do not sell your data and we do not use it for advertising.

Cookies

We use only the cookies needed to keep you signed in (tl_session), to complete a GitHub or Google sign-in (tl_oauth_github / tl_oauth_google, for ten minutes) and to finish signing up with one of them (tl_oauth_pending, for thirty minutes). There are no analytics or advertising cookies.

How long we keep it

We keep your account until you delete it. You can delete it at any time from your account page. That removes your account, avatar, upvotes and sessions. Your posts stay on the forum and are shown as written by “Deleted user”; if you want them gone, delete them before deleting your account or write to us.

Age

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account.

Your rights

You can see and change your details on your account page, delete your account, and ask us for a copy of your data or to correct or delete it by writing to [email protected].

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top.

See also the Terms of Use.