Privacy Policy - Watch The Popular Opinion

TL;DR: We don't store your email. We don't track you. We don't sell anything. This site exists to show popular opinion, nothing else.

What We Collect

When you vote, we collect:

Your email address - Used only to prevent duplicate votes
Your vote choice - Option A or Option B
Timestamp - When you voted

How We Handle Your Email

This is the most important part:

Your email is hashed immediately using SHA-256 cryptographic hashing
The raw email is never stored in our database
Hashing is one-way - we cannot reverse it to get your email back
We use the hash only to check if you've already voted in a specific poll

In plain English: We turn your email into a scrambled code that can't be unscrambled. We use that code to make sure you can only vote once. That's it.

What We DON'T Do

Let's be clear about what doesn't happen:

No marketing emails. Ever.
No mailing lists. We don't have one.
No selling your data. There's nothing to sell.
No third-party tracking. No Google Analytics, no Facebook Pixel, none of that.
No cookies except what's technically required to make the site work.
No user accounts. No profiles. No login.
No IP address logging for tracking purposes.

Data Retention

Your hashed email and vote are kept for the duration of each 10-day poll cycle. After a poll ends:

Vote counts remain public (this is the point of the site)
Hashed emails are retained to maintain poll integrity
No personal information is ever accessible or retrievable

Security

We take basic security seriously:

HTTPS encryption for all traffic
Hashing happens client-side and server-side
No unnecessary data collection means less to protect

Legal Stuff

We comply with applicable privacy laws. If we're legally required to disclose information, we'll do the minimum required by law. But since we don't store readable email addresses, there's very little to disclose anyway.

Changes to This Policy

If we change this policy, we'll update the "Last Updated" date at the top. We won't make changes that violate the core promise: your email is hashed and never readable.

Questions?

This site is intentionally simple. If something about this policy is unclear, that's on us. The goal is transparency, not legal complexity.

Bottom line: We built this to show popular opinion without the usual surveillance-capitalism bullshit. Your email is hashed immediately and never stored in readable form. Period.

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