This is a short, plain-English description of how favorite 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.
When you join the waitlist, we collect your email address. That's the entire dataset for now. When the product launches and you create an account, we will additionally store the things you choose to put in your library — the films, books, albums, podcasts, videos, and articles you log, along with your ratings, notes, and lists. 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.
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 favorite is taste expressed quietly, and we try to run the company the same way.
We use a small number of trusted infrastructure providers to actually run the service — things like our database, email delivery, and analytics. 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 a basic analytics tool that records aggregated page views. We will update this list as it changes.
Most of what makes favorite useful comes from sharing taste with other humans. Your profile, your top picks, your lists, and your activity are visible to other users by default once you sign up. You can make your profile or any individual entry private at any time. We will never make something more public than the setting you chose.
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.
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.
favorite 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.
If we make a meaningful change to this policy, we'll email everyone on the list before it takes effect. The "last updated" date at the top will always reflect the current version.
Questions, concerns, or polite corrections: abdulmir.com/chat.html.