Privacy

What is kept when you sign in

• Your email address. If you sign in with Google, it is the address of your Google account, which Google gives to the site when you choose to continue. It is used to recognise you when you come back.
• Your poems. What you choose to save: the title, the words you kept, any notes, which text it came from, and when it was saved or changed. They are kept in your account so you can open them on another device.
• Texts you add yourself. While you are signed in, a text you add (a file, or words pasted in) is kept in your account, in full, so that it is there in any browser you sign in on. Only you can read it. If you added texts in this browser before you signed in, they are copied to your account the first time you sign in, and the copies in this browser stay where they are.

There is no password. Nothing else from your Google account is asked for or kept: not your contacts, files, or anything beyond signing you in.

What is not done

• No advertising, no tracking of you across other sites, and no analytics tools.
• Your email address, poems and texts are not sold or shared for marketing.
• No cookies are set by Palimpsest itself.

What stays in your browser

Your browser's own storage holds the sign-in, so that you stay signed in when you reload the page, and a small note of which of the texts kept in this browser have been copied to your account. Signing out removes the sign-in from your browser. Words you are working on in the Studio are not sent to us until you save them.

Texts you add yourself, from a file or pasted in, are always read in your browser. When you are not signed in they are kept only in its storage and are never sent to us; a poem you save from one of them can then only be opened again in this browser. Deleting the text, or clearing the site's data in your browser, removes it. A poem you save keeps which of its words you kept (as numbers), its title and your notes, and not the text itself.

Who else handles it

• Supabase keeps the accounts, the poems and the texts you added while signed in, in its database, and does the sign-in checks. It keeps the records it needs to run sign-in.
• Vercel hosts the site. Like most hosts, it may keep ordinary server records of visits, such as the time, the page asked for, and the visitor's network address.
• Google is involved only if you choose “Continue with Google”. Its sign-in button loads from Google only when the sign-in window is opened, and Google's own privacy policy applies to what it does.

Each of these has its own privacy policy, which applies to the part it handles.

Deleting your data

When you are signed in, Account → Delete my account removes your poems and your texts, and then your account. After it you are signed out, and the same address can start again with an empty collection. You can also delete single poems from My Collection, and single texts from Your texts. Copies already made, such as a poem you exported or shared yourself, are yours and are not touched.

Questions

Write to butnaru.victor05@gmail.com with a question, or if the deletion button does not work for you. This page will be updated here if what is kept changes.