Privacy policy.

This site is built around not knowing who you are. There are no user accounts, no ad trackers, and no analytics scripts. Anonymity isn't a setting here — it's the architecture.

• An anonymous device ID. Your browser generates a random identifier and keeps it in its own local storage. It powers vote toggles, report deduplication, rate limits, and your ability to delete your own posts. It is random — it contains nothing about you, and we cannot connect it to a person. It is never shown publicly and is sealed off from every public and admin interface.
• What you submit. Posts, replies, votes, reports, and pay reports (role, optional state, pay figure) are stored without any identity attached — just the anonymous device ID above.
• An optional, encrypted email. If you ask for a ping when your post gets replies, that address is encrypted before it's stored, is never displayed anywhere (including to us in any dashboard), is used only to send those pings, and is deleted automatically when your post is deleted. Every ping includes a one-click unsubscribe that erases it immediately.
• Episode-notification emails. If you signed up for episode emails in the past, we hold that address for that purpose only. We don't sell or share it.

• No accounts or sign-in for the community.
• No advertising or ad networks.
• No analytics or tracking scripts on the site.
• No selling or sharing of any data with anyone.
• No attempts to connect anonymous content to real identities.

The site runs on Vercel with data stored in Supabase (Postgres); notification emails are delivered via Resend. Like nearly all web infrastructure, these providers process standard technical request data (such as IP addresses in transient server logs) to operate the service. We don't use that data to identify community contributors. To keep bots and spam out, we briefly retain a salted, one-way hash of request addresses — never the address itself — and automatically delete these within about 48 hours.

Delete your own posts and replies anytime from the browser you wrote them in — deletion is permanent and cascades to everything attached, including any notification email. Clearing your browser's site data resets your anonymous ID entirely. Unsubscribe links appear in every email we send.

If our practices change, this page changes first, with the date above updated. Questions? Reach us on Instagram @_beyondthescan.