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Privacy

What Curtn collects, what it doesn't, and how we handle the data you give us. Written in plain language — not as a legal contract.

The short version

  • We collect a phone number to sign you in. That's it for PII.
  • We don't ask for your email, name, or address.
  • We don't run ads today and don't sell your data. If we ever do run ads, they'll be on-topic (e.g. artists promoting their work) and won't rely on third-party behavioral tracking.
  • Things you post (reviews, lists, edits) are public by design — that's the whole point of an archive.
  • You can delete your account whenever you want.

What we collect

Account data. Your phone number (used only for sign-in), the username you choose, your display name, and anything else you choose to add to your profile (bio, photo, location).

Content you create. Reviews, ratings, lists, performances you mark as seen, edits to community pages, claim submissions, and the like.

Basic activity. Enough information to make the product work — sign-in events, which page you last visited from your dashboard, whether a claim of yours has had recent activity. We don't build behavioral profiles.

Standard request data. When your browser loads a page, it sends your IP address and user-agent to our hosting provider. That's true of every website.

What's public vs. private

Public by default: reviews, ratings, lists, your seen-history, your edits to community pages, your username and display name, and anything you put on your profile.

Always private: your phone number, your sign-in events, your blocked-user list, and any private notes attached to claims or removal requests.

Who else touches your data

Curtn is built with a small number of standard service providers:

  • Firebase Authentication (Google) — handles sign-in. Your phone number is verified through Firebase.
  • MongoDB Atlas — the database where your account and content live.
  • Vercel — hosts the website and serves it to your browser.

These are service providers, not partners. They process your data on our behalf to run Curtn. We don't sell or share data with advertisers or data brokers.

Ads, tracking & analytics

Curtn doesn't run ads today. We don't use third-party ad networks, retargeting pixels, or behavioral tracking, and we don't share your activity with anyone for marketing.

We may run ads in the future — most likely letting artists, companies, and venues promote their own work to relevant audiences on Curtn itself. If we do:

  • Ads will be clearly labeled as such.
  • Targeting will use on-Curtn signals only (e.g. the kind of work you've logged or followed). We won't sell your activity to outside advertisers or load third-party ad SDKs that track you across the web.
  • We'll update this page with details before flipping anything on.

We may also add lightweight, aggregate analytics over time to understand which features get used. If we do, we'll name the provider here.

Retention & deletion

We keep your account and content for as long as your account is active. When you delete your account:

  • Your reviews, lists, and seen-history are removed from public view.
  • Edits you made to community-maintained pages remain in the public edit history (an archive isn't useful if it can be retroactively erased), but are no longer attributed to you by name.
  • Your phone number is dissociated from the account.
  • Backups may retain residual copies for a short rolling window before they roll over.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (notably the EU/UK and California), you may have specific rights over your data — access, correction, deletion, portability. Curtn intends to honor those rights for all users regardless of jurisdiction:

  • Access: ask us for a copy of what we hold about you.
  • Correction: fix anything inaccurate — most of it you can edit yourself from your profile.
  • Deletion: delete your account (see above).
  • Portability: request an export of your reviews, lists, and seens in a machine-readable format.

Some of these are fully self-serve; others currently go through a manual request. Reach out and we'll handle it.

Contact

Privacy questions, data requests, or anything else covered here: reach out and a human will answer. Curtn is a small project — we don't have a privacy desk, but we do read every message.

Changes to this policy

We'll update this page as the product changes. Material changes — new categories of data, new third-party services, anything that meaningfully affects what's public — will be flagged at the top of this page for a reasonable window.

This page is intended to describe Curtn's practices in plain language. It's not a contract, and it doesn't grant or remove rights beyond those you have under the laws of your jurisdiction.

Something missing or unclear? Curtn is small and actively built — let us know and we'll update this page.