Your data

What other people see

• On your posts: your username and profile picture, unless the post is anonymous.
• Nobody sees your email address.
• Nobody sees how you reviewed a post. Readers learn how often a post has been forwarded so far, but never by whom.
• Gifts are anonymous too: the author doesn’t learn who gave the token.

What “anonymous” means

An anonymous post shows no name and no picture to other people. On our side it’s still linked to your account. Anonymity protects you from other users, not from the rules.

Metadata in photos and videos

Photos and videos are re-encoded when you upload them, and hidden metadata is removed, such as the location where a photo was taken or the device model.

Downloading your data

Settings → Download my data gives you a ZIP file with a copy of everything we store about you:

• README.txt explains what’s in the archive,
• data.json contains your account and settings, your channels, your posts, your reviews, your answers to attention checks, your token balance, your trust score and the feedback you sent,
• a media folder with the photos and videos you uploaded and your profile picture.

Putting the file together can take a moment. You can download your data up to three times a day.

Deleting your account

Settings → Delete account removes your account permanently. There’s no way to restore it, and signing up again with the same email starts from scratch.

You choose what happens to the posts you’ve published:

• Just my account. Your profile, username and email are deleted. Your posts stay on Peerkola without your name, so nobody can tell they were yours.
• My account and everything I posted. Your posts, photos and videos are deleted as well. Anyone who still has one of them waiting in their feed will see Post unavailable, and nothing you wrote can be forwarded any further.

You confirm with your password. Accounts that sign in with Google don’t have one and skip that step.

Feedback you sent through the app stays on file after you delete your account, but it’s no longer linked to you.

Beta note

While Peerkola is in beta, data may occasionally be reset. Don’t use it as the only place you keep something.