Privacy

When you send a poem

We keep the title, the poem, the pen name if you chose one, when it was sent, and whether it was posted. If you answered the weekly prompt, we keep which prompt. We don't keep your name, email address, or IP address with a poem.

School tags are only for writers signed in with a school email. We work out the school from the email's ending (like brandeis.edu) and show only the school's name on the poem, never the email.

If you're signed in, the poem is privately linked to your account so it shows in My poems and you can delete it. Readers and mods can't see that link.

If you're not signed in, you get a private link right after sending. It shows your poem's loves and write-backs and lets you delete it. We keep only a scrambled (hashed) version of it, which can't be turned back into the link, so save the link yourself. We can't show it again or tell who has it.

If you make an account

Accounts are optional. We keep your email address and a scrambled (hashed) version of your password. Your actual password is never visible to us. Your email is used only to sign you in, to send sign-up and password-reset emails, and, if you turn them on, to email you when someone writes back to or loves your poems. Those response emails are off unless you turn them on, and you can turn them off any time in your account. We don't send newsletters.

Write-backs work like poems: we keep the words, the pen name if any, and a private link to your account.

Loves and reports

Your browser makes a random code and keeps it on your device. When you love or report a poem, the database stores only a one-way scrambled mix of that code and the poem. It can't be traced back to you or connected to anything else you've done. A report also keeps the reason you picked and any note you wrote.

On your device

The site stores a few things in your browser: the random code above, which poems you've loved or reported, which poems you've opened (so a poem's lines fade in only the first time), when you last sent a poem (to slow down spam), your weekly game progress and streaks, and your sign-in if you have an account. There are no ads, no analytics, and no advertising or tracking cookies.

Services that help run the site

• Supabase stores the database and runs accounts, on servers in the US.
• Netlify hosts the website. Like any web host, it receives your IP address to deliver pages and may keep it briefly in server logs.
• Cloudflare Turnstile is the spam check. It looks at signals from your browser to tell people from bots.
• Resend sends sign-up and password emails, and response emails if you turn them on, so it receives your email address. A response email includes your poem's title, the write-back and its pen name, and your poem's number of loves.
• Anthropic (Claude) reads the title and words of each new poem to help moderate it. Nothing about who wrote it is sent.
• Google Fonts and jsDelivr deliver the site's fonts and one code library. Like any web request, they receive your IP address.

We don't sell your information or share it for advertising.

How long we keep things

Poems and write-backs stay until you delete them (in My poems, or with a poem's private link) or a mod removes them. Accounts stay until you ask us to delete yours. Email mchimoff@namelessverse.com from the account's address. If you also want your poems removed, delete them in My poems first, or say so in the email. Otherwise they stay up, unlinked from any account.

Age

You must be 18 or older to use Nameless Verse. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If we learn an account belongs to someone under 18, we'll delete it.

Changes and questions

If this page changes, we'll update the date at the top. Questions: mchimoff@namelessverse.com.