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Privacy Policy — September 27, 2026 This policy describes PostingZoo.com's social service. Contact the site operator at info@postingzoo.com for privacy questions, access/correction requests, or concerns about an underage account. Information processed We store account details such as your email, display name, handle, password hash, and optional profile information; posts and uploaded images; follows, reactions, bookmarks, blocks, mutes, reports, and notification preferences. New registrations record when you confirmed being 18+ and accepted the terms, with the terms version. We do not request a date of birth in that form. Sessions, security logs, and hosting systems may record IP addresses, browser details, timestamps, and request information. Moderation actions are logged. Public and private information Profiles, posts, replies, images, and visible interaction counts are public and may be copied or indexed by others. Email addresses, password hashes, bookmarks, and reports are not displayed publicly. Authorized administrators and service providers may access information needed to operate, secure, or moderate the service. Do not put confidential information in public posts or your profile. Purposes and providers We use information to provide accounts and feeds, deliver verification/recovery and administrator emails, process interactions and uploads, enforce rules, investigate abuse, and maintain the service. Hosting and email providers process information for these purposes; their processing locations may differ from yours. Information may also be disclosed when legally required or reasonably necessary to address fraud, security incidents, or threats, subject to applicable law. Cookies and external content Essential session and security cookies support sign-in and forms; choosing Remember me permits a persistent login cookie. Blocking these cookies may prevent account functions. Shared links lead to services with their own policies. YouTube thumbnails can connect to YouTube before playback; playing a video loads its external player. Those providers may receive your IP address and browser information. PostingZoo cannot control their practices. Your choices and retention You can update profile information, change account credentials, export account data, and request account deletion through Settings. The administrator account requires an ownership-transfer arrangement before deletion. Deleted posts and account content are removed from the live service, but copies held by other people, search engines, or independent services are outside our control. Backups, security records, and moderation records may persist for operational or legal needs. Contact us for the retention arrangements that apply to a particular request. We aim to retain personal information only as needed for the stated purposes and applicable obligations. Protection and requests We use access controls, password hashing, and other technical safeguards; no online service can promise absolute security. Keep your credentials private. Contact info@postingzoo.com to request access, correction, deletion, or to raise a privacy complaint. We may need proportionate verification before handling an account request. If you withdraw consent needed to operate an account, some features or the account may need to close. Statutory privacy rights remain available. Adults and changes Accounts are for adults 18+. If an underage account is identified, we may restrict it and address its information with appropriate care. We may update this policy and its displayed date; material changes should be communicated before new uses where required.

Photo editing — October 25, 2026

Authors can add, replace, rotate, reorder or remove attached photos and edit their descriptions. Photo changes are staged in the open editor until saved. Removed or replaced photos and their media records are permanently removed from live app storage after a successful save; temporary storage failures are retried automatically. We do not retain an image recycle bin or old photo versions for these edits. Existing backups, browser caches and previously downloaded copies may retain them. Pending new files and edits are not server-side drafts.

Quick reactions and Analytics choices — October 5, 2026

We save one account-linked reaction per post, with its type and timestamps. Public posts display aggregate reaction counts and your own selected reaction when signed in; this release does not publish a list of reacting members. Authors may receive a reaction notification identifying the member. Reactions can be changed or removed, are included in account export and are removed with the post or account under our existing retention policies.

Optional Analytics choices are saved separately from login sessions in this browser. Logging out does not reset your choice. Local storage keeps it without a scheduled expiry, with a first-party preference cookie lasting up to one year as a fallback. Use Analytics choices to allow or decline Analytics later. Clearing site data, a different browser/device or private browsing can cause the question to appear again. Browser privacy signals still keep optional Analytics off. No Google request is made before consent on an eligible page.

Optional locations and places — October 1, 2026

Locations are optional. City/area posts store and display the area text only. Public-place posts store the name, city and optional public address you enter. Exact pins store and publish the coordinates you explicitly confirm. These fields stay with the post until you edit/remove its location, delete the post or delete your account; they are included in your account export. Copies, search caches and backups may retain earlier public versions.

Device location is requested only when you tap a location button; there is no background tracking or automatic profile update. Exact pin capture uses your device without a city-provider request. If the operator enables optional city lookup and you choose its disclosure checkbox, your browser sends its current device coordinates and IP address directly to BigDataCloud to suggest a city. PostingZoo receives only the city text when you save it, not the coordinates from that lookup. BigDataCloud may use the coordinate/IP pairing to improve its geolocation service under its own privacy policy. You can enter a city manually instead; declining device permission does not trigger an IP lookup. Google Maps receives the selected area, place or pin and your network request when you click its external map link. Maps are not loaded automatically.

Review what will be public before posting. Choose city/area or a public business when you do not want to expose an exact position or home address.

Invitations and optional analytics — September 28, 2026

Members may share an invitation link or, when enabled, ask PostingZoo to send an invitation email. Recipient addresses are encrypted in invitation records; keyed address hashes enforce limits. Records are removed after 30 days by the daily scheduled cleanup. Opt-out hashes are kept to block future invitations, even after the original record expires. An invitation does not create an account or subscribe its recipient to a mailing list.

If the operator enables Google Analytics, it loads only after you choose to allow it on an eligible public page. Your choice is saved in this browser independently of login sessions, as described above. Use Analytics choices to change it. Browser Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control preferences keep this optional integration off. Google Analytics may set cookies and receive technical information including IP addresses. This integration sends page categories without post text, profile handles or search terms; additional collection depends on the operator’s Google Analytics configuration. Private account/admin pages and staff visits are excluded. Disabling optional analytics does not disable essential login/security functions or the separate approximate post-view counter.

Poll votes — September 28, 2026

Poll results show public totals, not voter names. We store your account ID and chosen option to enforce one vote per account and let you change your vote while a poll is open. These are account-linked votes, not anonymous ballots. Your account export includes your votes. Deleting your account removes your votes; deleting the poll post removes its question, choices and votes from the live service. Backups may retain earlier copies.

Post views and deleted conversations — September 27, 2026

We display approximate post-view totals. A view is reported after at least half a post is on screen for one second while the page is visible. Authors' signed-in views are excluded. Repeat views are limited to one per account or anonymous browser within 24 hours.

For signed-in readers we use a keyed hash derived from the account ID. For signed-out readers an encrypted, HTTP-only cookie called pz_viewer contains a random browser identifier and expires after 24 hours unless renewed by another view report. Short-lived records contain the post ID, a keyed viewer hash, and the last counted time; they do not contain raw IP addresses. Our existing security/hosting logs are separate. These records are pruned hourly after 24 hours when the scheduled task is operating; total counts remain. Clearing cookies, signing in, or using another browser can affect counts. Views are not unique people or verified audience figures.

Deleting a post removes its text, images, author association and reactions from the live service while retaining a minimal deleted-post notice to keep other people's replies and quotes connected. Previously downloaded/cached copies and backups may persist. Upload retry tokens are kept for up to 48 hours plus the hourly cleanup interval to prevent accidental duplicate submissions. Pending drafts and selected photos stay in the open page's memory; they are not saved as server-side drafts.

Security activity

PostingZoo uses registration checks and temporary rate-limit counters to reduce automated abuse. Rate-limit keys may be derived from account or network identifiers. The security dashboard stores only daily totals, kept for 30 days. Staff moderation reasons are stored with the existing moderation audit history.