Privacy.

This is a short, plain-English description of how Favorites handles your information. We try to collect as little as possible, store it carefully, and never sell it. If anything here is unclear, email us and we’ll explain it like a person would.

What we collect

When you create an account, we collect your email address and the profile details you choose to share (username, display name, bio, avatar, links). We also store the things you put in your library — the films, books, albums, podcasts, videos, articles, and photos you save, along with the thoughts you write about them. We also collect basic technical information your browser sends automatically (IP address, user agent, referrer) so we can keep the site working and prevent abuse.

Why we collect it

• Your email — to let you sign in, to reach you about your account, and to send the optional weekly digest, which you can turn off in settings.
• Your library— because that’s the whole product. It’s what we show back to you and to the people who visit your profile, and it’s what your daily recommendations are drawn from.
• Technical logs — to debug, secure the service, and understand whether the thing we just shipped actually works.

What we don’t do

We don’t sell your data. We don’t run third-party advertising. We don’t build shadow profiles of people who haven’t signed up. We don’t read your library to train a generic recommendation engine for some other company. The point of Favorites is taste expressed quietly, and we try to run the company the same way.

Who else sees it

We use a small number of trusted infrastructure providers to actually run the service. They process data on our behalf under their own privacy commitments. The list, in plain terms: a hosting provider, a database provider, an email provider, and an AI model provider that turns your library into your daily recommendations — it processes your library to generate them and doesn’t train on your data. When you search for something to add, your search term is sent to public media catalogs (TMDB, iTunes, Open Library) to find artwork and metadata. We will update this list as it changes.

Sharing on the platform

Most of what makes Favorites useful comes from sharing taste with other humans. Your profile and your library are visible to anyone who visits your page — that’s the point of the product. Your email and settings are never public. We will never make something more public than the setting you chose.

Cookies

We use cookies and similar local storage to keep you logged in and to remember small preferences. We don’t use tracking cookies that follow you across other websites.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of everything we have on you, correct anything that’s wrong, or delete your account entirely. Deletion is permanent — once your library is gone, we can’t bring it back. To make any of these requests, email the address below.

Children

Favorites isn’t designed for people under 13. If you believe a child has signed up, please let us know and we will remove the account.

Changes

If we make a meaningful change to this policy, we’ll email everyone before it takes effect. The “last updated” date at the top will always reflect the current version.

Contact

Questions, concerns, or polite corrections: builtbyabdul@gmail.com.