Privacy

Your words and your identity

Signing in gives our authentication provider your email address and a provider identifier. Life Echoed uses them to manage your sign-in. Your sign-in email and private account identifiers are not displayed in the public commons.

The system keeps a private connection between your account and your contributions. It is needed for permissions, one-account participation limits, account controls, export, and handling abuse. People operating the service may need access for those purposes. The service can identify an author internally.

What you choose to make public

Published Echoes, approved previews, conversations, shared sources, Questions, work records, contributions, evidence, and History are public where their page says they are. Review the words before publishing. Keep private contact details out unless the people concerned agreed to their publication.

An Echo can show your screen name if you explicitly choose that when publishing. Anonymous publication remains available. A public profile is a separate, optional choice: its screen name, biography, and image link are public only when you turn that choice on. Making a profile public does not attach your name to earlier anonymous Echoes. Your chosen name can identify you if people already know it.

Participation and shared work

We store the participation you record: Gather, stances, recognition, responses, Questions and their position history, followed Echoes or Worlds, and contributions to shared work. Account identifiers used to manage those records are private. Public Questions state whether aggregate Standing is visible while positions are open or only after closing. My Place and your export are private account views.

Work records can include practical details you enter, such as an offer, a task, evidence, a resource link, or a result. Only share details that belong in a public record. Following an Echo or World keeps it in My Place; this release does not send a notification digest.

Private drafts and this browser

The composer keeps a draft in browser storage to protect your words through navigation or interrupted sign-in. Account drafts are separated by the account that wrote them. A guest draft can be carried through sign-in in the same tab. Browser storage can be unavailable or cleared, and the composer tells you when it could not keep a draft. Shared devices may retain local drafts; use the draft controls to remove words you do not want left there.

When signed in, you can explicitly save a private draft to My Place and resume it on another device. The site confirms a save only after receiving the account’s saved revision. These unfinished words and their preview are private to your account, included in your export, and removed by account erasure. Resuming a draft requires a fresh publication review; saving does not publish it. If this capability is unavailable, the composer says so and keeps the local words.

The browser also keeps limited state needed to return to your place in the Galaxy and to recover a write when its result is uncertain. A publication is public only after the server accepts it.

Leave Your Weight

Weight words stay in this page’s memory and disappear after you release them, leave the page, or change accounts. They are not sent to our application database, saved as a draft, published as an Echo, or kept in an archive. They are never copied into a public question.

You can separately choose to remember exact repeats for your signed-in account. Your browser uses a private account key to make a keyed fingerprint from the exact wording, with surrounding spaces and equivalent Unicode spelling normalised. The service stores that fingerprint, deposit count, and dates. It does not store the original Weight words or infer a meaning, diagnosis, or period of recovery. Protected recurrence is included in your account export. “Forget my private repeat records” removes the match key and aggregate records; account erasure also removes them.

Share Your Good and the Human Wall

Unfinished Good is kept in the current tab and separated by account. A guest can explicitly carry it through sign-in to the selected account without carrying approval to publish. You can keep a Good moment private, which clears its draft words after the animation, or review and publish those words as a public Good entry. Public Good can show your chosen name if you select it. It stays available under its own link until you remove it. Connecting your own Echo or a verified outcome is an additional choice; later proof disputes and corrections remain visible.

The Human Wall is a separate public choice. It keeps one presence per account, either without a public name or with the chosen name you select. It does not record a lasting label about which door you came through, and a presence does not claim you are online now. The presence stays until you remove it. Public chosen names and shared Good can be searched. You can manage your presence and Good entries in My Place. Account erasure removes both, along with the private account links that manage them.

Hosting, authentication, and links

The application runs on Vercel. Its application data is held in a Supabase PostgreSQL database with database access controls. Sign-in is handled by Supabase Auth. Those services process technical data needed to host the site and authenticate requests, including connection and request information.

Life Echoed uses browser storage and cookies for sign-in and the features described here. The application does not add advertising trackers or an advertising analytics service. External resources, image links, identity providers, and other sites have their own data practices. Opening an external link sends a request to that service.

Your choices and your data

You can change your screen name once every 30 days, choose whether to show it when publishing, make your optional profile private, and stop following an Echo or World. You can download your contribution and activity export from account settings. If a required source fails to load, the export refuses to deliver an incomplete file. It also names capabilities that have not been deployed.

Self-service erasure removes your Life Echoed application account, display identity, profile, private saved drafts, private following signals, and personal participation signals. Retained public words and shared evidence are detached from your account, so other people’s conversations and work can keep their record. Erasure cannot remove copies someone already made of public content.

The erasure process also requests deletion of the authentication provider’s sign-in record and ends your session. If the application data was erased but that second step could not be completed, the site reports a partial result and directs you to the feedback door for help finishing it. Download your export before erasing if you want a copy of your contributions.

How contributions are used

Your contributions are used to operate Life Echoed, display the public content you choose to share, support coordination, maintain records, and handle abuse. Life Echoed does not sell your contributions to advertisers or use them to train machine learning models.

Changes and questions

Changes to these practices will be described here with an updated date. A new use of private data or a new public sharing choice needs to be explained before it takes effect. For questions, use the feedback door.