Privacy policy (draft)
This is a working draft and will be finalised before public launch.
What we collect
- Account: your email address and a hashed password. We never see or store the password itself.
- Profile you choose to share: display name, country, birth year (shown to others as an age), bio, languages and interests.
- Messages you send, stored so that you and the person you wrote to can read them.
- Basic activity: when you were last active, and any blocks or reports you make.
We do not ask for your real name, phone number, address or payment details. Paperfall has nothing to buy.
How we use it
To run the service: let other members find you, deliver your messages, keep accounts safe and investigate reports. When a report is made, a moderator may review the profiles involved. We do not sell your personal data.
Who can see what
- Your profile is visible to signed-in members. Your email address is never shown to anyone.
- Your messages are visible only to you and the person you are writing to.
Advertising and cookies
Paperfall is free and funded by ads from Google on browsing pages. Ads are never shown inside your conversations. We use a cookie to keep you signed in. Google and its partners may use cookies to show and measure ads, including ads based on your earlier visits to this or other websites. You can turn off personalised ads in Google’s Ads Settings and read how Google uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com.
Where your data is kept
Account, profile and message data is stored with our database provider, Supabase, in a data centre in Seoul, South Korea. The website is served by Vercel. Both act on our instructions and may not use your data for their own purposes.
Your choices
You can edit your profile at any time. You can ask us for a copy of your data, or to delete your account and everything in it, by contacting us. We keep data only for as long as your account exists, unless the law requires us to keep it longer.
Age
Paperfall is for adults aged 18 and over. We remove accounts that we learn belong to someone younger.
Contact
A contact address will be published here before public launch.