Privacy notice

The short version

We keep as little as we can get away with. We do not store your email address. We do not sell anything to anyone. We are legally required to log who sends what, we do, and we say so on every page where a message can be sent.

If you send someone a message

You do not need an account, and we do not ask who you are. What we record:

The recipient never sees any of the first item. Nobody sees the sender token but the server.

If you have an account

Why we are allowed to hold it

Who else sees it

Inside psst, an admin may open an account's received messages when something needs checking for moderation, for example after a report or a sign of abuse. Every look needs a written reason and goes in the staff log: who looked, whose inbox, when and why. Moderators cannot do this, and opening an inbox does not show who sent any of the messages.

Outside the psst team, nobody, with two exceptions. Our hosting provider, Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany, physically holds the server — this means your data is processed inside the EU. And if a Turkish court or prosecutor makes a lawful demand, we comply. There are no advertisers, no analytics services, and no third-party trackers on this site.

If you switch notifications on, your browser's own push service (Google for Chrome, Mozilla for Firefox, Apple for Safari, Microsoft for Edge) carries an encrypted notice to your device. It only says a new psst arrived, the service cannot read even that, and the message itself never leaves our server.

Cookies

All strictly functional, none for tracking or advertising: a signed session cookie if you are signed in, the anonymous sender token described above, your language choice stored in your browser, and two short-lived ones that only exist while you appeal a ban (one hour) or recover your account (thirty minutes).

How long we keep things

Your rights

Under KVKK Article 11 you may ask whether we hold data about you, what it is, why we have it, and who it has gone to; ask for it to be corrected or deleted; and object to decisions made about it. Write to the contact address below and we will answer within 30 days. You can also complain to the Turkish Data Protection Authority (KVKK).

One honest limit: if you sent a message anonymously and want the traffic record deleted, we usually cannot do it before the two years are up, because keeping it is the legal obligation described above.