Privacy

Privacy notice

What personal information FactSnap handles, why it is used, how long it is kept, and how users can exercise their rights.

Page performance

To improve loading, responsiveness and visual stability on home, article, wiki and archive pages, we send only LCP, INP and CLS values, language and a coarse page type to our own endpoint. These requests omit cookies, account information, full URLs, queries, referrers and visitor identifiers. Our performance table stores no IP addresses or individual event records. DNT/GPC opt-outs, known bots and automated browsers are excluded. We retain daily counts, sums, maxima and quality-band counts for a rolling 30-day window, pruning older buckets during collection and scheduled maintenance. This first-party measurement is separate from the Chrome UX Report and does not establish a Google field-performance verdict. Ordinary transport and security records remain subject to the Cloudflare processing described below.

Controller and scope

FactSnap is operated under the display name fizzycrisp; there is currently no separate incorporated or registered business entity. Privacy requests: factsnap556@gmail.com. This notice covers accounts, community features, inquiries, security and usage metrics. Reading news does not require an account.

Information and purposes

  • Google account identifier (sub), email and verification status, display name, profile-image URL, role and consent records for account creation and sign-in.
  • Hashed session and CSRF tokens, expiry and access times, and hashed IP/User-Agent values for session security and abuse prevention.
  • Community post title, body, linked story, wiki and external URLs, comments, reactions, saved stories, category preferences, reports, appeals, risk and moderation records for requested member and community features.
  • Inquiry type, optional email and article URL, message, status and timestamps for responding to requests.
  • IP and request metadata at the infrastructure layer, referrer origin, impressions, clicks, dwell, shares and referral events for security, aggregate statistics and non-personalized ranking. Article opens and engaged reads (30 active seconds with 50% body progress) are counted separately. Referral classification sends only Threads, search, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, internal, external or unknown; it never includes the referral path or query. A temporary tab-memory token is stored only as a hash, with no cookie or local-storage identifier. Reader measurements exclude DNT/GPC opt-outs, known bots and signed-in operators.

Collection and choice

Data is received from the Google ID token, user-submitted features, necessary cookies, and ordinary HTTPS requests. FactSnap does not store Google passwords or Google access tokens. Declining required account data prevents member features but does not prevent public news reading.

Retention

  • Account and consent records: until account deletion, after which direct account identifiers are removed and the account row is anonymized.
  • Active sessions: up to 30 days; expired or revoked session records may remain for up to another 30 days.
  • Reactions, saved stories, preferences and comment reactions: until deletion or account deletion.
  • Community posts, linked URLs, comments, reports, appeals, moderation and audit records: for the service lifetime or until the operational, rights-protection or dispute purpose ends; posts and comments may remain under an anonymized former-user label.
  • Resolved or rejected inquiries: up to 365 days after resolution; open inquiries and active disputes until completed.
  • Rate-limit hashes: up to 2 days; metric-deduplication hashes: up to 8 days; Cloudflare Workers logs: up to 7 days.

Public content and children

A community post or comment publishes the display name, content and time to other users. Linked stories, wiki topics and external URLs in posts are also public. Do not submit passwords, government identifiers, payment details, sensitive information or another person’s private data. FactSnap does not offer member services to children under 14 and has no parental-consent flow.

Sharing and processors

FactSnap does not sell personal information and does not ordinarily disclose it to separate third parties, except with consent or where lawfully required. Cloudflare, Inc. processes hosting, storage, delivery, security, logs and Turnstile data on FactSnap’s behalf. Google LLC provides account selection and may process direct email under its own privacy policy.

International processing

Cloudflare and its published subprocessors may process encrypted service data in the United States, EEA, United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Canada, Singapore, India, South Korea and other listed operating locations. Google may process sign-in and email information on servers worldwide. Refusing Cloudflare processing prevents use of the Cloudflare-hosted site; refusing Google sign-in prevents member features but not public reading. FactSnap does not currently guarantee storage in a Korean-only jurisdiction.

Cookies and automated processing

Necessary HttpOnly, Secure, SameSite=Lax cookies maintain sessions and CSRF protection; theme settings may remain in browser local storage. English pages do not request Kakao AdFit ads. English article and feed pages, public FactWiki and community reading pages, and desktop sidebars may display Adsterra banner ads. Ad requests may send Adsterra and its advertising providers an IP address, browser and device information, the page URL, and impression or click information. Cookies and similar storage may be used for ad delivery, measurement and fraud prevention. FactSnap does not supply member names, email addresses or comment text to the Adsterra integration. See the provider privacy policy and your browser third-party cookie controls; public news remains readable when advertising is blocked. Korean article and feed pages, and Korean FactWiki and community reading pages, may display Kakao AdFit banners. Ad requests may send Kakao an IP address, browser and device information, the advertising page, and impression or click information. Kakao may use cookies and behavioral information for advertising, measurement, fraud prevention and personalization. FactSnap does not supply member names, email addresses or comment text to the AdFit integration. Kakao advertising settings and browser cookie controls can limit personalized advertising; public news remains readable when ads are blocked. Aggregate metrics rank popular stories, and automated risk or report thresholds may hold or temporarily hide comments. Users may request an explanation and human review through appeal or contact channels.

When Google advertising is enabled, third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on prior visits to this or other websites. Google advertising cookies allow Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits across the Internet. Users can opt out of personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings. Where advertising consent is required, we will collect it separately from account registration. Declining advertising consent will not prevent public news reading.

Rights and security

Users may request access, correction, deletion, suspension, withdrawal, explanation or review by deleting their account or contacting factsnap556@gmail.com. Identity verification may be required. Safeguards include encrypted transport, server-side Google token verification, secure cookies, CSRF protection, secret separation, one-way hashing, Turnstile, rate limits, role-based access, audit records and scheduled deletion.

Contact, remedies and changes

Privacy contact: fizzycrisp · factsnap556@gmail.com. Korean users may also contact the Privacy Infringement Report Center (118) or the Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee (1833-6972). This notice takes effect on August 28, 2026. Material changes will be posted before they apply and renewed consent will be requested where required by law.