What we keep, and who can see it

This page is about what happens when you make an account, join, or send us a note.

Inside Iran? Use a name and an email that do not show who you are. We never ask for your real name, and nothing here checks it.

What an account keeps

• Your email address.
• The name you chose to show with your posts.
• What you posted.
• What you liked, unliked and reported.
• Whether you ticked "Email me news from Iran Uncensored", and when.
• If you marked a video as your own: that, and the address of the channel it is on.

We never see your password. It is kept scrambled, in a form nobody here can read.

Where it is kept

In Firebase, a service run by Google, in a project that belongs to this site alone and that only the people who run this site can open. It is not shared with any other site, our own English one included.

Who can see what

• Everyone: what you posted, the name you chose, and how many likes and unlikes a post has.
• Nobody but you and the people who run this site: your email address, what you liked, unliked and reported, and whether you ticked the news box.

Other readers cannot see who liked a post. The author of a post cannot see who reported it.

We do not sell any of this, and we do not pass it on to anyone.

Emails from us

One email when you make an account with a password, to check that the address is yours. One if you ask to reset your password. Nothing else, unless you ask for news.

Making an account does not put you on a mailing list. Ticking the news box does. The box starts empty, and we keep the date and time you ticked it. To stop the news, tap your name at the top of any page, clear the box, and save.

What you post in a discussion

It shows on the page it is about, on both the English and the Persian page, under the name you chose. That goes for a correction, a site bug or an idea as much as for an opinion or a video, and for an answer to another reader.

A correction, a site bug, a source or an idea also goes to a form that the people who run this site read, so that somebody acts on it. That copy carries the page you sent it from, your name, your email address and the number of your account. When you report a post, the reason you picked goes to the same form without your name or your email.

Translating a post

A post written in the other language has a Translate link. If your browser can translate by itself, it is done on your device. If it cannot, the link opens Google Translate in a new tab, and the words of that one post go to Google when you tap. Nothing is sent before you tap.

Joining, and voting on a score

Joining the email list (a name and an email, no password) is separate from an account. It sends your name and your email to a form that only the people who run this site read. Neither is shown on a page.

What stays on your own device

A note you have written and not sent yet, so that it is still there after you make an account. The fact that you are signed in, until you sign out. The name and email you joined with, your votes on scores, and the language you picked.

Other places these pages load from

The pages are served by GitHub, which like any host sees the address your device connects from. The lettering is served from this site itself. The number of posts on a page is asked from Firebase when the page opens, and the discussion itself when you open it. A video a reader shared loads from YouTube, X or Instagram only after you tap it.

There is no advertising here.

Deleting it

Tap your name at the top of any page, then "Delete my account". That removes what you posted, your likes, unlikes and reports, and the account itself, there and then.

The copies in the form, and your place on the email list, are kept apart. Ask in the discussion on the About page and we delete those too.

The rules of a discussion

Write in Persian or English. Argue with what someone said, not with who they are. We remove insults, threats, adverts, and anything private about anyone. Three readers reporting a post take it off the page until we have looked.