Your data
What the site keeps about you, what is public, and how to take it all back.
Updated on 29 October 2026
What the site keeps
- Your accountThe email and the account id Google or Discord sends when you sign in. Never shown to anyone.
- Your profileThe name you choose, the hero you wear, and the picture you upload if you have one.
- What you postYour comments, posts, pictures and likes. They are public, under your name.
- Your sessionsA sign-in lasts 30 days and is renewed, 90 days at most. We keep the name of the browser it was opened in.
- Your toolsWhat the site's tools save on your account, to find it again on another device.
- Your messages to the teamTheir words and the page they came from. A fingerprint of your address helps stop duplicates and is erased after 48 hours.
- Against abuseA visitor's address counts their attempts for two hours at most, then the counter is gone.
What is public
- Your name, your hero, your join date, your posts and comments, on your public profile.
- Never your email, never whether you are a moderator or a supporter.
- A hidden or deleted post is no longer shown anywhere.
Your rights
- Download everythingOne file with all the site keeps about you, from your account page.
- Delete your accountYour account, your posts, your comments and your pictures are deleted for good.
- Change your nameAt any time, from your account page.
Audience measurement
- What we countWhich pages are read, and roughly from which country, with Google Analytics.
- One cookie_ga, so that one reader opening three pages counts once. It holds no name and no email.
- In EuropeIn the EU, the EEA, Switzerland and the UK, it stays off until you say yes in the banner.
- ElsewhereIt is on, and you can say no. Saying no changes nothing on the site.
- Do Not TrackA browser that sends it is never counted.
- Changing your mindAt any time: « Cookie settings », at the foot of every page.
Cookies
- A session cookie keeps you signed in. Without it there is no account.
- Two or three cookies hold a sign-in for ten minutes while Google or Discord answers, then expire.
- Your browser keeps the tickets of your messages to the team, so their answers can reach you.
- The audience cookie, _ga, only as the section above says.
- No advertising cookie.
Who handles it
- Cloudflarehosts the site, its database and the pictures.
- Google, Discordconfirm who you are when you sign in.
- Discordour server receives the community's public posts and the moderators' alerts.
- Google Analyticscounts the pages read for us, as our processor, only as far as you allow it.
A question
- We never sell your data. We are the data controller.
- For any question about your data, write to support@holst.network
Or ask us on the site's Discord server. Join the Discord