Privacy

Three, all first-party, and none of them for advertising.

• lv_v — a random id with no name attached. It is how a view or a click is counted once rather than every time you reload, and how a rate limit knows one browser from another.
• lv_session — set only if you sign in, and only so the site knows it is still you. Signing out removes it.
• lv_gate — set only while the site is closed to the public, if you have the password.

Stored on your device and never sent anywhere: lv_prefs, your sound and display preferences, and lv:hearts:*, which entries you have hearted so the site can show them back to you. Clearing your browser data clears both.

Signing in is with Google, and only to post in the chat. What is kept is the account id Google gives, your email address, your display name and the URL of your profile picture — the name and picture so other people in the chat can see who is talking, the email so the account can be recognised again and contacted if something goes wrong. Nothing is passed on to anyone. Ask and it is deleted.

Subscribing stores your email address and whether you have confirmed it. It is a double opt-in: nothing is sent until you click the link in the confirmation email, and an address that is never confirmed is deleted within a week. The email itself is delivered by Resend. To come off the list, reply to any email from lvly or write to [email protected], and the address is removed.

None are stored. An IP address is read from the request while it is being handled — to stop one machine subscribing a thousand times — and is gone when the request ends. It is never written to the database, never logged and never sent anywhere.

lvly uses Peeko, which is cookieless: it records that a page was viewed, not who viewed it, and builds no profile of you across sites. Alongside the page views it counts six things people do here — hearting an entry, subscribing, confirming a subscription, clicking through to a source, opening the chat and posting in it — as bare counts, with no identity attached.

It also notes when a search engine or an AI crawler fetches a page, which sends that crawler’s name and the path it asked for. Crawlers are not people and this never applies to a browser.

The screenshots and recordings here are captured from other people’s websites, and clips of posts are downloaded from X. They are shown as references, with a link back to the original in every case. If something of yours is here and you would rather it were not, see Takedown.

Anything at all, including deleting whatever is held about you: [email protected].