Privacy policy

This page explains what PirateVault stores about you and why.

Accounts

Sign-in is by Google only. We receive your Google account identifier, email address, name and profile picture. We never see or store a password. Your name is shown next to reviews and replies you post; your email address is never shown.

Vote integrity

To keep rankings fair we record, with each vote and sign-in, salted one-way hashes of your IP address, network range, device identifier and browser, together with the country and network operator derived from the address. Raw IP addresses are never stored. These signals are used only to detect duplicate and coordinated voting. The hashes are deleted after 90 days. The country and network operator recorded with a vote are kept for as long as the vote counts, because a site's ranking depends on how many countries its voters come from.

Guests

When a guest posts a review, reply, update or report, we store the text, the optional name or email provided, and a salted hash of the IP address for rate limiting and spam control. Submitting a site requires signing in; the decision is emailed to your account address.

Cookies

We set only the cookies needed to keep you signed in, to protect sign-in and forms, and to detect duplicate voting. They are listed on the cookies page.

Outbound clicks

We count how many times each listed site is opened from here, as a daily total per site. No personal data is attached to these counts.

Who we share data with

We do not sell personal data. Google handles sign-in. If the site uses a bot-check or blocklist service, your request or the address of a submitted site may be sent to that service for that purpose only.

How long we keep things

Account details are kept while the account exists. Hashed network and device signals are deleted after 90 days; the country and network operator of a vote stay with the vote. Reviews, replies and votes are kept until you delete them or ask us to.

Your choices

You can delete your own reviews from your account page. You can ask for a copy of your data, or for your account and contributions to be deleted, at any time by writing to [email protected].