Privacy notice

Plain-English summary of what we collect and why. TheParagraph is built privacy-first: you decide what becomes public, and we keep as little as possible.

What you post

The screenshot you upload is cropped in your browser before it's sent — we never receive the parts you crop out. The cropped image, plus any caption and the optional distance you add, become public on the wall. Don't upload anything you're not happy to make public, and always crop out names, photos, and anything identifying.

Accounts (optional)

You can post without an account. If you create one, we store your username and a securely hashed password (never the password itself). An email address is optional, and we do not use it for password recovery or marketing. Your username is never shown on a post — posts are always anonymous.

Votes

To stop the same person voting twice, we store a one-way hashed identifier derived from an anonymous cookie or your IP address — not your raw IP. Your individual vote choices are kept in your own browser.

Cookies & storage

• A session cookie if you log in.
• An anonymous identifier used only to deduplicate votes.
• A cookie remembering posts made in this browser, so a new account can claim them.
• Local browser storage for your theme and which posts you've voted on.

We use no third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking.

Where data is stored

Posts and images are stored on our own server infrastructure. We don't sell your data or share it with advertisers.

Removing content

If you have an account, you can delete your own posts from your account page at any time — which removes the post and its images. To request removal of any post, use the Report button on it. See the guidelines for what gets taken down.

TheParagraph is intended for adults sharing their own experiences. Crop out anything private before posting — once it's on the wall, others may have seen it.