Privacy, in plain English

Last reviewed: 3 June 2026. General information, not medical advice.

Short version: we don’t want your personal information and we’ve built the site so we mostly don’t get any. Here’s the honest detail, including the one third-party tool we do use.

What we don’t do

• No accounts. No logins. No newsletter. The only form anywhere is the optional story submission — covered in detail below.
• No database of users. There’s nowhere for your personal info to be stored, because we don’t have one.
• No ads, and so none of the tracking that comes with ad networks.

The self-reflection tool stores and sends nothing

The self-reflection runs entirely on your own device. Your answers are held in your browser’s memory just long enough to show you the page — they are never saved, never sent anywhere, and they’re gone the moment you refresh or close the tab. To make that promise real, we also switch our analytics off completely on that page, so it makes no third-party calls at all. Nothing you tap there leaves your device.

Analytics on the rest of the site

On the other pages we use Google Analytics 4 to see basic, aggregate things like how many people visit and which pages are useful. It helps us decide what to write next. Being straight with you, that means:

• It sets cookies in your browser and sends usage data (pages viewed, rough location, device/browser, referrer) to Google.
• We’ve turned on IP anonymisation. We don’t collect your name, email, or anything that identifies you personally, and we don’t try to.
• Google processes this data under their own terms. See Google’s privacy policy and how Google uses data from sites that use its services.

How to opt out

• Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
• Or use your browser’s “block cookies / tracking” settings, or a private window.
• Either way, the site works exactly the same — analytics is for us, not for you.

If you submit a story

The Stories section is the one place we deliberately collect something — and only if you choose to send it. It runs on a separate system (a Cloudflare Worker at stories.notnpd.com), not on this static site. Here’s the deal, plainly:

• What we collect: the story you write, an optional display name (a first name or “Anonymous” — no surnames), and optionally your state. We don’t ask for your email or any account.
• Anti-spam: we use Cloudflare Turnstile and store a one-way hash of your IP address to stop abuse — never your actual IP.
• How it’s handled: submissions are screened by an AI (Anthropic’s Claude) to flag spam, identifying details and crisis content, then a human reads every one before anything is published. Nothing goes public automatically.
• If published: only an anonymised version appears, and only after review. Please don’t include real names or details that identify you or anyone else — we’ll skip submissions that do.
• Retention: submissions that aren’t published are automatically deleted after 90 days. Published stories stay until you ask us to remove one.
• Not a way to get help: that box isn’t monitored in real time. If you’re struggling, use get help — that’s what it’s there for.

Your hosting footprint

Like any website, our web server keeps standard request logs (your IP address, the page requested, time, and browser type) for security and to keep the site running. These are ordinary server logs, not a profile of you.

Contact

If you’ve got a privacy question, get in touch via the details on the about page. This page was last reviewed 3 June 2026.