Privacy information for Immortal Veracity.

This Privacy Policy explains how Immortal Veracity collects, uses, stores, and discloses information in connection with the Website and related account features.

This policy is intended to describe the Website's current data practices as they exist at the time of publication. If additional advertising, analytics, consent, or reader-interaction tools are added later, this policy may be updated to reflect those changes.

This Website is operated by Immortal Veracity.

If you need to contact the Website regarding privacy-related matters, please use the Contact page or any public contact method that Immortal Veracity makes available.

Depending on how you use the Website, we may collect or receive the following categories of information:

• account information, such as your email address and account-related profile information, if you create or use an account;
• authentication-related data processed in connection with sign-in, sign-up, and account access;
• content interaction data, such as article view and click activity used to operate site engagement features;
• browser-side storage data, including local storage entries used to reduce repeated engagement tracking over short periods of time;
• technical information that may be processed automatically by infrastructure and service providers, such as IP address, browser type, device information, request metadata, timestamps, and related diagnostic or security information;
• communications or information you choose to provide directly, if you contact the Website or use future interactive features.

We may use information for the following purposes:

• to operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Website;
• to create, authenticate, manage, and support user accounts;
• to display and administer account-related features;
• to measure article engagement and reduce repeated self-inflation of engagement metrics;
• to detect, prevent, or investigate abuse, fraud, misuse, technical issues, or security incidents;
• to communicate with users where necessary in connection with account or service functionality;
• to comply with legal obligations or respond to lawful requests where applicable.

If you register for an account or sign in to the Website, account and authentication functions may process your email address and related account data for the purpose of creating and maintaining access to account features.

Account information may also be used to identify your profile, distinguish reader and administrative access where applicable, and support account management functions available through the Website.

The Website currently uses browser local storage in a limited functional way. In particular, local storage may be used to store short-lived engagement cooldown markers associated with article views or clicks so that repeated actions from the same browser are not counted immediately again.

At the time of this policy, this functionality is used for operational and measurement-related purposes within the Website itself. It is not described here as an advertising or behavioral profiling system.

If the Website later adopts additional cookie banners, consent tools, advertising technologies, analytics tools, or third-party identifiers, this Privacy Policy may be revised accordingly.

The Website may record article-related engagement signals, including view and click counts, in order to support editorial ranking, content management, and site operation.

These counts are used to help manage article presentation and internal site behavior. They are not represented in this policy as a comprehensive advertising analytics program at the current stage of the Website.

The Website relies on third-party service providers to help operate parts of its infrastructure and functionality. These providers may process information on our behalf to the extent necessary to provide their services.

Based on the current Website setup, this may include providers involved in hosting, database services, authentication, storage, content delivery, and technical infrastructure.

For example, account, database, and storage functionality may involve Supabase or related infrastructure used to support the Website's current features.

We do not describe the Website as selling personal information through this policy as currently drafted for the present-stage site.

We may share or disclose information in limited circumstances such as the following:

• with service providers acting on our behalf to operate the Website;
• where disclosure is necessary to enforce site rules, protect rights, address fraud or security issues, or respond to misuse;
• where disclosure is required by law, legal process, court order, or competent authority;
• in connection with a transfer, restructuring, sale, or reorganization of the Website or its operations, if such an event occurs in the future.

We may retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate the Website, maintain accounts, support security and integrity, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our policies.

Because different categories of information may serve different operational purposes, retention periods may vary depending on the type of data involved and the reason it is processed.

We take reasonable steps to support the security of the Website and related data processing, including the use of service providers and infrastructure intended to help protect account and operational data.

However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure, and we do not guarantee absolute security.

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have certain rights regarding personal information, which may include rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, or portability, as well as the right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.

If you have an account, you may also be able to review or update certain account details through account features made available on the Website.

If you wish to make a privacy-related request, you should contact Immortal Veracity through the Contact page or another public contact method provided by the Website.

The Website may contain links to third-party websites, sources, platforms, or embedded materials. Those third parties operate under their own terms and privacy practices, and we are not responsible for their policies or data handling.

The Website is not described as being directed specifically to children. If you believe personal information has been provided inappropriately in connection with the Website, please contact Immortal Veracity so the matter can be reviewed.

The Website may later adopt additional advertising, sponsorship, analytics, measurement, or consent-management tools. If that occurs, data practices may change and this Privacy Policy may be revised to describe those additional systems and disclosures.

You should review this page periodically if you want to stay informed about material changes to the Website's privacy practices.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When updates are made, the 'Last Updated' date at the top of this page may be revised.

Your continued use of the Website after changes take effect means you acknowledge the updated policy to the extent permitted by applicable law.