01.Information We Collect
When you create an account, we collect your email address, your chosen username, and a salted cryptographic hash of the password you select. We do not store your password in plaintext. We do not have the means to recover it for you. Please write it down. We are sorry. We have considered implementing a password-recovery flow; we have not, as of this writing, considered it strongly enough.
When you use the Service, we additionally collect basic operational data: the fact that you logged in, the fact that you visited a particular stream, the approximate geographic region from which you connected, and the timestamps of these events. We use this data to operate the Service, to detect abuse, and to generate aggregate statistics that we occasionally cite in our marketing copy. The statistics are always aggregate. We do not look at individual users. We barely look at aggregate users.
02.What We Do Not Collect
We do not collect your browsing history outside of vrdl.net. We do not collect your contacts. We do not collect your location with precision greater than the country level, and even that is approximate. We do not collect biometric data. We do not collect your personal conversations, your private messages on other platforms, or the contents of your clipboard. We are not Facebook. We do not have the storage budget to be Facebook. We have a single database and a single backup, and we are fond of both.
03.Cookies and Local Storage
We use a small number of browser-stored items to keep you signed in, to remember your preferences, and to enable core features such as chat. We do not use advertising cookies. We do not use third-party tracking cookies. The cookies we use are functional and are, in our professional opinion, the smallest reasonable set of cookies needed to operate a streaming platform. We have not yet integrated chocolate chips. We are open to suggestions on that front.
04.Third-Party Services
We use a small number of third-party services to operate the Service: a content delivery network to deliver video efficiently, a payment processor to handle subscriptions, and an authentication provider to keep your account secure. Each of these services has its own privacy practices, which are governed by their own policies. They receive from us only the data they need to perform their function. They do not, to our knowledge, do anything untoward with it. We have a written agreement with each of them. The agreement is short.
05.How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to operate the Service, to authenticate you, to deliver the content you request, to send you occasional service-related emails (such as password reset links and security alerts), and to detect and prevent abuse. We do not use your information for advertising. We do not sell your information to third parties. We do not trade it. We do not share it with our accountants, who do not want it, or with our lawyers, who have plenty already.
06.Data Retention
We retain your account information for as long as your account is active. When you delete your account, we delete your account information, your profile data, and your content within thirty (30) days. Some information may persist in our backups for an additional period, after which it is overwritten in the normal course of operations. We do not retain information indefinitely. We have better things to store, like cat photos. Our database is, at the time of writing, primarily cat photos.
07.Your Rights
You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you. You have the right to correct inaccurate information. You have the right to request deletion of your information. You have the right to object to processing of your information. You have the right to data portability, in a commonly-used, machine-readable format. You can exercise any of these rights by contacting us at the email address listed on our home page. We will respond within thirty (30) days. We will respond sooner if we can. The response will be friendly. The response will be brief.
08.Children
The Service is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected such information, we will delete it as soon as practicable. If you believe we have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us. We will be prompt, apologetic, and effective.
09.Security
We employ reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include encryption in transit, encryption at rest, access controls, and the strong recommendation that our employees do not write their passwords on sticky notes. The sticky-note recommendation has, on at least one occasion, been ignored. We are working on it.
10.Modifications
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of material changes via the Service and, where practicable, by email. The date of the most recent revision will always be indicated at the top of this page. Your continued use of the Service following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of the changes. We will not make changes with retroactive effect. We are not in the retroactive business.
11.Contact
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or about our data practices generally, please contact us at the email address listed on our home page. We read every message. We respond to most of them. The ones we respond to are usually handled within a few business days. We try to be useful, but our definition of useful is occasionally idiosyncratic. Thank you for reading this far.