What we keep and why

Short, because there isn’t much.

What we store

• Your answer, as you wrote it.
• Whether you chose private or you can use mine, and which version of that wording you agreed to.
• Roughly when it arrived, and how many words it was.
• How long you spent writing, how many keys you pressed, whether you pasted, and your timezone. This is only used to spot automated submissions so the statistics aren’t nonsense.

What we don’t

• No name, no email, no account.
• No IP address, no device fingerprint, no advertising or tracking cookies.
• Nothing that lets us work out who you are, unless you write it in your answer yourself.

“Private” means unpublished, not unread

If you choose private, your answer is never published, never shown to anyone outside the people running this, and never sold or traded — not now, not later. We do still read it, and it still counts toward the overall statistics. We’d rather say that plainly than let the word “private” do work it hasn’t earned.

If you chose “you can use mine”

Your answer may be quoted publicly — on this site or in a video — alongside our commentary, which may be unkind. No name is attached. You can change your mind at any time, and we won’t ask why.

Changing your mind

After you send an answer we show you a key, once. It’s the only way back to your answer, and we store only a one-way hash of it — so we genuinely cannot look it up for you, and nobody who stole our database could use it against you either. With it you can switch between private and public, or delete your answer outright.

Deleting removes your words permanently. We keep a marker that an answer existed and was withdrawn, with no content, so the public counts stay honest about it.

Where it lives

In a Cloudflare database, in transit and at rest under their encryption. Only the people running this project can read it.

Asking us anything

If you want to know what we hold, or want it gone and have lost your key, write to arvi@tervik.org. Without the key we may not be able to find your specific answer — that’s the cost of not collecting anything that identifies you.

Last updated 1 August 2026. Back to the question