The Greyhound

Here’s what we keep about you, and what we don’t.

No accounts

You don’t sign up and you don’t log in. We never ask for your email, your name or your number.

Your name stays off it

When you write something, the name box already says “Anonymous”. Leave it, and that’s what gets printed. Readers never see who wrote it.

Articles: we keep your IP address

Every device on the internet has an address, called an IP address. When you send in an article, we save the address it came from.

• Only the editor can see it. It is never shown on the site.
• It’s there to stop abuse: spam, threats, or pieces that break the rules.
• It’s deleted when the article is deleted.

An IP address usually points to a house or a Wi-Fi network, not a person. But on a shared network, like the school Wi-Fi, it can narrow things down. Keep that in mind.

Comments, votes and tips: we don’t

For everything else, your IP address isn’t saved. We scramble it into a code that changes every day, and only use that code to stop spam and double voting. Nobody, including the editor, can turn it back into your address or work out who sent what.

Photos are cleaned

Photos from a phone can secretly carry where and when they were taken. We remove all of that before saving any picture.

No tracking

No Google Analytics, no ads, nothing watching what you read. Reading the site doesn’t set any cookies.

If the editor changes your article

The editor may fix, shorten or cut parts of an article before it goes up. If the headline or the words are changed, a note at the bottom says so.

What we can’t protect you from

If you write about something only a few people saw, they may guess it was you. Think about the details you put in, not just the name you leave out.

Read next: the rules.