The shortest privacy notice we could write.

• A first-party anonymous ID stored in a cookie (lt_anon). It identifies your browser to us — not you. We use it to stop the same browser from upvoting the same hack a hundred times.
• A salted hash of your IP and user-agent, used the same way. The raw IP is never stored.
• Anything you submit: life hacks, comments, reports, the byline you choose. These are public.
• Standard server logs (browser, page, status code, timestamp). Used for debugging and abuse prevention only.

• We don’t use third-party analytics, ad networks, or social tracking pixels.
• We don’t sell, rent, or share visitor data with anyone.
• We don’t require accounts and we don’t store email addresses for normal readers.
• We don’t fingerprint browsers beyond the basic user-agent hash described above.

We set a single first-party cookie, lt_anon. It’s an opaque random ID, scoped to this site, with no third-party access. Admins also get an lt_admin cookie after signing into the dashboard — it’s httpOnly and signed.

Life hacks and comments you submit publish immediately and are public from that moment on. To request removal of one you’ve posted, use the in-page Report control on the hack or comment itself — every published item carries one.

Sponsor click-throughs go through /api/sponsor/click, which records an aggregate click count and redirects you to the sponsor’s site. We don’t pass any identifying information about you to the sponsor — just the click event itself. The sponsor’s site has its own privacy policy from the moment you arrive.