Privacy Policy

1. What is recorded while you browse

• The pages you visit, when, and which page you came from.
• Your IP address, plus the approximate region and ISP looked up from it. Only the site owner can see IP addresses in the admin console; they are never made public.
• Basic information your browser exposes: OS, browser, device type, screen size, language, time zone, light / dark preference, and whether it is controlled by an automation program.
• Reading activity: engaged time on the page, how far you scrolled, which outbound links or downloads you clicked, and performance data such as page load speed.

We check the IP location against your time zone and language to tell whether a visit went through a proxy or came from a bot, and use the result only for statistics. We do not collect device fingerprints such as canvas, graphics card, or audio, nor font lists or precise location. Visits from search engine crawlers and from the site owner are not recorded.

2. What we record when something breaks

• When a page errors or crashes, the error message, the code location, the page address and your browser version are sent to this site so the problem can be found and fixed. They are collected with the open-source Sentry SDK and sent only to this site’s server, not to Sentry or any other third party.
• The last few dozen actions before the error: which pages you opened, which buttons you clicked (only where the button is on the page, never what you typed), the addresses of requests the page made (without query parameters), and the song playing and its position.
• Device information: screen size, language, time zone, color scheme preference, memory and CPU cores, and network type. Your IP address is not stored, only the approximate region looked up from it. If you are signed in, the report is linked to your account.
• To catch cases where the system kills the page process before any script can report it, the page regularly writes a heartbeat and the actions above to this tab’s session storage, and clears it when you close or leave the page normally. If the next visit finds that the last one did not end normally, one report is sent.

With Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control on, the error itself, the page address and your browser version are still sent, but without your visitor ID, account or device information.

3. Sign-in, comments, and likes

• Account: username, nickname, and email; passwords are stored encrypted. When you sign in with a third-party account, we receive the name, email, and avatar it provides. Each sign-in records the IP address used, to keep your account secure. Your profile page shows the approximate region of your latest sign-in by default; you can turn this off in account settings.
• Local time: off by default. If you turn it on in account settings, we save the time zone you choose (your browser's by default), and your profile page shows your local time and time zone. Turning it off deletes the time zone.
• Linking after sign-in: after you sign in on a browser, your earlier anonymous browsing on it is linked to your account. The site owner can also turn on inference from browser information: anonymous browsing from the same network with the same browser information in the last 7 days is linked to your account too and marked as inferred in the admin panel.
• Comments and likes: the content, plus the IP and approximate region at the time of posting. IPs are never made public; you decide whether the region and client info are shown.

4. Cookies

• nb_vid: a random visitor ID used to tell new and returning visitors apart, kept for 1 year.
• token, refresh_token: sign-in state; oidc_nonce: third-party sign-in verification, expires after 10 minutes.
• Preferences such as theme and volume are stored only in your browser. This site uses no advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.

5. How long we keep it

• Visit and interaction records: deleted automatically after 90 days.
• Visitor summary (latest region, device, and visit count): deleted 1 year after the last visit.
• Error reports: deleted automatically after 30 days.
• Accounts and comments: until you delete them or close your account.

6. Third-party services

CAPTCHA, third-party sign-in, Gravatar avatars, CDN resources, and embedded content let the respective services see your IP, which they handle under their own privacy policies. The weather card uses your location, rounded to about 1 km, only after you allow it, and discards it right after use. IPv4 locations are looked up offline on this site’s server; IPv6 locations may be looked up through a third party. Beyond that, we don’t share your information with anyone.

7. What you can do

• If you don’t want to be recorded: turn on “Do Not Track” or “Global Privacy Control” in your browser. The site then only counts the visit anonymously: it doesn’t store your IP, read the browser information above, record reading activity, or set the visitor cookie. Error reports are still sent when something breaks, without your visitor ID or device information (see above).
• After you clear this site’s cookies, your next visit will be treated as a new visitor, though within 7 days, visits from the same browser on the same network may still be recognized as the same visitor from browser information.
• Contact the site owner SnowyKami to view, export, or delete records about you, or to close your account.

If you are under 14, please get a guardian’s consent before registering or commenting. When this policy changes, the date on this page will be updated, and major changes will be announced on the site. Contact details are in the footer or on the site owner’s homepage.