This Privacy Policy explains what we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and what choices you have when you use lurk.me.
We try to keep this simple and readable.
1. What We Collect
We may collect:
- Account information such as your email address, username, password hash, and basic profile details.
- Content you create such as text, links, profile details, page content, messages you send to us, and media uploads.
- Technical information such as IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, referring pages, and basic logs.
- Usage information such as how you use the service, pages you visit, actions you take, and crash or error data.
- Safety and abuse information such as reports, moderation records, blocked accounts, and information used to investigate abuse or security issues.
2. How We Use Information
We use information to:
- create and manage your account,
- host and display your pages and content,
- operate, maintain, and improve lurk.me,
- keep the service secure and prevent spam, fraud, and abuse,
- investigate reports and enforce our rules,
- respond to support requests,
- comply with legal obligations,
- protect users, rights holders, and the platform.
We do not sell your personal data.
3. Legal Reasons We Process Data
Depending on where you live, we may process your information because:
- it is necessary to provide the service you asked for,
- it is necessary for our legitimate interests in running, securing, and improving lurk.me,
- it is necessary to comply with legal obligations,
- or you gave consent where consent is required.
4. How Long We Keep Information
We keep information only as long as we reasonably need it for the purposes described here, including to:
- provide the service,
- maintain backups,
- investigate abuse and security incidents,
- comply with legal obligations,
- resolve disputes,
- enforce our terms and policies.
Different types of data may be kept for different lengths of time. For example, active account data may be kept while your account exists, while logs, backups, and safety records may remain for a limited period after deletion where needed.
5. Sharing
We share information only when needed, including:
- with service providers that help us run lurk.me, such as hosting, storage, security, analytics, communications, and infrastructure providers,
- with law enforcement, regulators, courts, or other parties when required by law or legal process,
- when needed to detect, prevent, or address fraud, abuse, security, or safety issues,
- in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets,
- with rights holders or claimants where needed to process copyright complaints, counter-notices, or legal disputes.
We do not share personal information with advertisers for the purpose of selling your data.
6. Public Content
Some parts of lurk.me are meant to be public or shared by you. If you publish content publicly, other people may be able to view, copy, save, or share it.
Please only post what you are comfortable making available to others.
7. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We may use cookies or similar technologies to:
- keep you signed in,
- remember preferences,
- understand performance and reliability,
- improve security,
- measure basic usage and detect abuse.
If we use optional analytics or similar tools in the future, we may update this page to explain them in more detail.
8. Your Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to:
- access the personal data we hold about you,
- correct inaccurate information,
- request deletion of your account or data,
- object to certain processing,
- request a copy of certain data,
- withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
To request deletion or ask about your data, contact us at legal@inicial.co or support@inicial.co.
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests, and we may keep limited information where the law allows or requires us to do so.
9. International Processing
lurk.me may be operated using providers and systems in more than one country. By using the service, you understand that your information may be processed and stored in countries other than your own, subject to appropriate safeguards where required by law.
10. Children
lurk.me is not intended for children under 13. If we learn that we collected personal information from a child under 13 in a way that is not allowed, we will take steps to delete it.
11. Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to help protect information. No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Please use a strong password and keep your login details private.
12. Account Deletion
You can request account deletion by emailing support@inicial.co.
Deletion requests may remove your account and active content, but some information may remain for a limited time in backups, logs, abuse-prevention systems, or where we need to keep it for legal, security, or legitimate business reasons.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will post the latest version here and update the "Last updated" date.
14. Contact
For privacy questions or requests: legal@inicial.co For general support: support@inicial.co