Privacy Policy

Account information: When you create an account, we collect your email address, username, and display name.

Review content: We store the reviews, ratings, lists, and other content you create on Kiroku, including any text, images, or metadata associated with your reviews.

Usage data: We collect information about how you interact with the service, including pages visited, features used, and general activity patterns.

Device information: We may collect basic device and browser information such as browser type, operating system, and screen size to improve your experience.

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve the Kiroku service
• Display your reviews and profile to other users (based on your visibility settings)
• Send you service-related notifications, such as account verification and subscription updates
• Process payments and manage your subscription
• Generate personalized features like review statistics and roundups
• Respond to your requests and provide support

Kiroku relies on the following third-party services to operate:

• Cloudflare: Hosting, content delivery, database storage, and image storage. Data is processed in accordance with Cloudflare's Privacy Policy.
• Stripe: Payment processing for subscriptions. Payment details are handled directly by Stripe and are never stored on our servers. See Stripe's Privacy Policy.
• External metadata APIs: We fetch publicly available information about movies, TV shows, games, music, books, podcasts, manga, and places from third-party APIs (such as TMDB, IGDB, MusicBrainz, OpenLibrary, and others) to enrich your reviews. Your search queries may be sent to these services.

Kiroku uses cookies and browser local storage for the following purposes:

• Authentication: A session cookie keeps you signed in across visits.
• Preferences: Local storage may be used to save your display preferences and UI state.

We do not use third-party tracking cookies or advertising cookies.

We do not sell your personal information. We may share your information only in the following circumstances:

• Public content: Reviews and profile information you set to public are visible to other users and may be indexed by search engines.
• Service providers: With third-party services listed above, strictly as needed to operate the platform.
• Legal requirements: If required by law, regulation, or valid legal process.

We retain your data for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, we will remove your personal data from our systems within 30 days, except where we are required to retain it for legal or compliance purposes.

You can request deletion of your account and associated data by contacting us through the information provided below.

Depending on your location, you may have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate data
• Request deletion of your data
• Export your data (available to subscribers)
• Object to or restrict certain processing of your data

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below.

We take reasonable measures to protect your information, including encryption in transit and secure storage. However, no method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Kiroku is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so we can take appropriate action.

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of significant changes by posting a notice on the service. Your continued use of Kiroku after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

If you have questions about this privacy policy or your personal data, please contact us at:

privacy@kiroku.com