Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 2026
At Linespedia, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal data you share with us. This Privacy Policy details how we collect, handle, secure, and use your personal information when you use our community services.
1. Information We Collect
We collect personal data that you provide directly to us when registering, creating profiles, or writing posts. This includes:
- Account Data: Email address, usernames, passwords, display names, and avatars.
- Content Submissions: Writings, reactions, bookmark folders, and comments.
- Log Data: IP address, browser user-agents, request timestamps, and referrer URLs.
2. How We Use Your Information
Your data is used to provide, improve, and secure our social community platform. Specifically:
- To authenticate and manage your platform access.
- To process user-specific writing feeds, reactions, and bookmark actions.
- To distribute notifications for followers, likes, reviews, and mentions.
- To detect, prevent, and address security incidents or violating conduct.
3. Authentication and Security
We leverage Stack Auth (Hexclave) as our secure cloud identity and authentication provider. Your account password and credentials are encrypted and stored safely on Stack Auth server networks, and are never transmitted to or processed directly by our servers.
4. Data Retention and Deletion
We retain your personal data for as long as your account remains active. You can request database cleanup or permanent deletion of your profile details, publications, and comment logs by visiting your settings page or by contacting us.
5. Third-Party Advertising and Cookies (Google AdSense)
We partner with Google AdSense to serve advertisements on our platform. To make sure you see relevant advertisements:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on your prior visits to Linespedia or other websites on the Internet.
- Google's use of advertising cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) enables it and its partners to serve personalized ads to you based on your visit history.
6. Opting Out of Personalized Ads
You have full control over cookie tracking and personalized advertising choices:
- You can opt out of Google's personalized advertising settings by visiting the Google Ads Settings page.
- Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the AboutAds info page.
- You can configure your browser to reject all cookies or block third-party trackers. Note that some site features may operate with reduced convenience as a result.