Privacy

Last updated 9 September 2026.

What we store

Here is the whole list. Nothing on it has your name attached, because we never learn your name.

The arguments people post

The question and the two sides, and the time it was posted. This is public — that is the point of posting it.

Vote totals

How many votes each side has. We store the running totals and a daily count, so the person who posted it can see a trend line. We do not store a list of who voted which way.

A note that your browser already voted on a given argument

This is a one-way scrambled code, worked out from your browser's cookie and the argument's own ID. It cannot be reversed, and because the argument's ID is mixed in, the code is different for every argument. That means it cannot be used to follow you from one argument to the next. It exists only so the same browser can't vote twice on the same thing.

A note that your browser has voted at least once

One row holding your browser's random cookie number and the date of your first ever vote. We use it to tell a first-time visitor apart from a returning one. It is not linked to any argument or to any vote you cast.

Which websites sent visitors to an argument

When someone opens an argument, we count the website they came from — for example "reddit.com" — so the person who posted it can see where it travelled. We store the website name and a number. No IP address, no visitor identity, nothing about the individual person.

IP addresses are not kept. Your IP address is used for a few seconds to stop one machine from flooding the site, and then it is gone. It is never written to our records.

The one cookie

Voting needs a way to tell browsers apart. Otherwise one person could vote a thousand times and the result would mean nothing.

So we set a single cookie. It contains a random number, generated on the spot, plus a signature proving we issued it. That is all. It is not linked to your name, your email, your phone, or your identity, because we do not have any of those.

This cookie is strictly necessary. It is not used for advertising, it is not used to build a profile of you, and it is not used to follow you onto other websites. We run no advertising trackers, no analytics scripts, and no third-party tags of any kind. You can check: the site loads no scripts from other companies.

If you clear your cookies, that number is gone and a new one is issued next time. Nothing is lost except your voting history on arguments you already voted on.

What we never do

These are commitments, not preferences.

• We do not sell your personal information. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to market research firms, not to anybody. We do not licence it, trade it, or hand it over in exchange for services.
• We do not share information for targeted advertising. There is no ad network here to share it with.
• We do not try to work out who you are from your votes, your writing, or anything else, and we do not try to link your activity here to you anywhere else.
• We do not publish anything that could single you out. If we ever publish figures about what people voted for — a trend, a chart, a "what the internet thinks" post — they will be totals across many people, never anything traceable to one person or one household, and never small enough to identify anyone.

If that ever changes, it will not change quietly and it will not change for information we already hold. See If this policy changes.

If you ever bid on something

Bidding is the one place on this site where we might hold something that could identify you, and only because you typed it in yourself.

• An email address, if you choose to give one. It is optional. We use it only to tell you if you have been outbid, won, or lost. Nothing else. No newsletter, ever.
• A cryptocurrency wallet address, if you bid that way. A wallet address is public by nature, and we need it to collect a winning bid.

Neither is shown on the public page. Neither is sold or shared. If you would like either deleted, ask, and we will delete it once the auction is finished and settled.

If you pay us

Payments are handled entirely by Stripe. Your card details go to Stripe and never touch this site — we could not see them if we wanted to. Stripe tells us that a payment succeeded and which argument it was for. That is all we get.

Stripe keeps its own records under its own privacy policy.

Receipts, and what is in them

Every argument gets a free, dated receipt proving your exact words existed at a particular moment. It is created automatically and you are never charged for it.

What goes into a receipt is deliberately minimal: the text you posted, the time, and a signature. No cookie number, no email address, no name, no IP address — nothing that points to you as a person. If you posted anonymously, the receipt does not change that.

Because the point of a receipt is that it can be checked without trusting us, the key needed to verify one is published openly at /receipt-key.pub, and the check runs on anyone's own machine. That means a receipt someone has already downloaded stays checkable even if we delete the argument here — the same way a screenshot someone saved is out of our hands.

Nothing is written to a blockchain. An earlier version of this site offered that and it has been removed, so there is no permanent public ledger entry to worry about and nothing about you sitting on a public chain.

Things kept on your device, not ours

Two small things live in your own browser and are never sent to us:

• Which arguments you have already voted on, so the result is shown instead of the buttons when you come back.
• Anything you saved for later, so you can come back to a question you could not answer yet. This is a list of argument links and their wording — nothing about you.
• Which arguments you posted, so you can find them again after closing the tab.

These are ordinary browser storage. We cannot read them, they are not shared with anyone, and clearing your browser data deletes them.

Your record is built from exactly those three things, in your browser, at the moment you open it. It is not a profile we keep. Nothing on that page is sent to us and nothing about it is stored — close the tab and it is gone, and opening it again rebuilds it from scratch. Exporting it as a PDF, spreadsheet or JSON file also happens entirely on your device.

One honest detail: to tell you whether you agreed with the crowd, that page has to read the public result of each argument you answered. Those are the same public pages anyone can open, and the request does not say that they are yours — but it does mean your browser fetches them.

If you choose to share your result

Your record has a checkbox on it, off by default, that adds your result to the public totals. Nothing is sent unless you tick it and press the button.

If you do, exactly four coarse figures are sent:

• Your archetype — the label, such as “The Coin”.
• Your agreement rate, rounded to the nearest 5%, so the figure is shared with many other people rather than being nearly unique to you.
• Roughly how many arguments you have answered, as a range like “10–24”, never the exact number.
• Your most-argued subject, such as “physics”.

Not sent: which arguments you answered, which sides you took, when you voted, your cookie, or anything else. The request is made deliberately without your voter cookie attached, so it cannot be tied back to your voting.

It is stored as counts, not records. Your submission adds one to a few running tallies and then ceases to exist. There is no row for you, which means there is genuinely nothing for us to hand over, lose, or delete — and it is also why sharing cannot be undone. We say that on the checkbox before you tick it.

Companies that help run this

Running a website means other companies are involved. Here is everyone, and what each one does:

• Microsoft Azure — stores the arguments and vote totals, and checks every submission for harmful content before anyone can see it.
• Vercel — serves the pages to your browser.
• Stripe — handles payments, as above.

None of these are allowed to use what they hold for their own purposes. We have not hired any advertising, analytics, or data company, and we do not intend to.

Young people

This site is for people aged 13 and over. It is not built for children, not aimed at children, and not advertised to children.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If we find out that we have, we will delete it. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe your child under 13 has used this site, email us and we will remove whatever we can find.

The voting cookie is the only thing this site stores about a visitor, and it exists purely to make voting work. We do not use it for advertising or profiling — which is exactly why we can keep the site open without asking anybody to prove their age just to read a question.

Your choices

Because there are no accounts, most of your choices are simple and immediate:

• To get something taken down, use the "Report this" button on any argument, or email us. You do not have to explain who you are.
• To erase your voting record on this site, clear your cookies. There is nothing else tied to you.
• To see what we hold about your browser, email us. Because a browser cookie is the only handle we have, we may need you to send the request from that browser.

Depending on where you live, the law may give you rights to see, correct, delete, or take a copy of your personal information, and to object to it being sold or shared. We will honour those requests, and we will answer within 45 days. To be clear about the last one: there is nothing to opt out of, because we do not sell or share personal information in the first place.

If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal — a standard "do not sell my data" flag — we respect it. Since we never sell or share personal information, honouring it changes nothing about how we treat you. We honour it anyway.

You will never be charged, downgraded, or treated differently for exercising any of this.

How long we keep things

• Arguments and vote totals — kept until removed. They are the site.
• The voting cookie — expires one year after it is issued.
• Bidding email addresses — deleted on request once an auction has settled.
• IP addresses — never written down at all.
• Your “saved for later” list — kept in your own browser, on your device. It never reaches us, so there is nothing here for us to delete; clearing your browser data removes it.
• Receipts already downloaded by someone else — out of our reach, the same as a screenshot. We delete our copy with the argument.

If this policy changes

We may update this page — to fix wording, or if the site gains a feature. When we do, we will change the date at the top.

One promise about that, and it is the important one: if we ever want to use information in a way this page currently rules out, we will not apply that to information we already hold. A new policy will only ever cover what comes after it, and where the law requires your permission, we will ask for it clearly and up front rather than burying it in an update.

Contact

This site is run by Cronk Companies LLC, Minnesota, USA. A real company, run by a real person, who answers his own email: justin@cronkcompanies.com.

Also worth reading: Terms, The rules, Copyright, Accessibility.