Private by default

Nothing you say here is anyone else’s.

You can use every room without an account, without an email, and without a name. This page says exactly what happens to what you say — in plain sentences, because a promise you have to decode is not a promise.

What we keep

  • Your rounds and your record. Transcripts of what you argued, your ballots, your streak, your rating. That is the product — a record you can look back at.
  • A device id. A random number in your browser. It is not a name, an email, or an address, and it is how your history finds you before you ever sign in.
  • If you sign in with Google: your email, your name, and your profile picture. Nothing else — we cannot read your inbox, contacts, or files.
  • Which pages got used. Page views and a fixed list of moments (a round started, a microphone was refused, a ballot came back), so we can fix what breaks.

What we never do

  • No third-party analytics. None. No Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no session recorder, no ad network. Nothing on this site reports to anyone but us.
  • No selling, ever. Your words are not training data for sale and not a product we ship to anybody.
  • No IP addresses, no device fingerprints in our analytics, and never the full address of the page you came from — only which site it was.
  • Nothing you say is public unless you post it. Speaking on the floor is private by default. The shelf is opt-in, one tap, every time.

The one place your words leave this app

The judge, the opponent and the transcription are OpenAI. When you speak in a live round, your audio goes from your browser to OpenAI directly to be heard and answered; when you finish, the transcript goes to OpenAI to be judged. We pay for that under an API agreement where your content is not used to train their models. It is the only company that ever sees a word of yours, and it sees it to do the one job you asked for.

Posting is always anonymous if you want it to be

Every place this app offers to publish something you made — a minute off the floor, a take in the Ideas orbit, a reply to the morning brief — has an anonymous route that is not a lesser one. Leave the name field empty and it posts as Anonymous. Signed in and still want it unnamed? Post anonymously; your account keeps the XP, the shelf keeps no name. The only thing an account is required for is voting, because one vote each is impossible to honour otherwise.

Getting your data out, or getting rid of it

Ask and we will send you everything attached to your account or delete all of it, whichever you want. Use the Feedback tab on the edge of any page, or write to niemannmaude+privacy@gmail.com. Signed out, clearing your browser storage ends the device id and the history it carried — nothing follows you after that, because there was never anything else to follow you with.