Privacy

Verdyct is operated by Igor Pakuła, a sole trader based at ul. Lubelska 24/26/1, 93-129 Łódź, Poland, trading as Verdyct. Verdyct is a trading name, not a company; the data controller is Igor Pakuła personally.

Questions, requests or complaints: verdyct@verdyct.org.

• — No advertising, no ad networks, no tracking pixels.
• — No third-party scripts run on this site. Nothing is sent to anyone else.
• — Measurement happens only if you allow it, and you can withdraw at any time.
• — We never sell your data and never share it for marketing.
• — You can delete your account, and deletion actually removes personal data.

Your email address, when you create an account, so you can sign in and so we can contact you about your account. Never shown publicly. Kept until you delete your account. Lawful basis: performance of our contract with you.

Your password, stored only as a hash. We cannot read it.

An email address you give us to be told one verdict, if you ask for that when you pick a side without an account. It is kept against that one debate, used for that one message, and never for anything else. Every such message carries a link that deletes it, and you can use that link before the message even arrives. Lawful basis: your consent, given by typing it in.

Your display name, username and bio, which you choose and which are shown publicly beside your arguments. They do not have to be your real name, and we would rather they were not.

What you write and how you react. Arguments, the side you picked, and your reactions to other people’s arguments. Arguments and sides are public by design — that is the product. Lawful basis: performance of our contract with you.

Political opinions, if you argue about politics. Taking a side in a debate in the Politics category publishes a political opinion, which is a special category of personal data. We process it because you have deliberately made it public by choosing a side on a public page. You can change a side, delete an argument, or delete the account and with it everything attached to your name.

Whether you saw or followed a sponsor. When a sponsored placement is shown or a sponsored link is followed, we record which placement and which campaign, under the same permission as the measurement below — with no identifier at all when you have not given it. A click also stores a one-way hash of the visit that is rotated every day, so it cannot be followed from one day to the next. Sponsors receive totals only: how many times something was shown, how many different people saw it, and how many followed it. They never receive anything that identifies you, and we place no tracking code of theirs on this site.

Measurement, only with your permission. If you allow it, we store a random number in your browser for up to 180 days so that repeat visits are not counted as new people, and we record which pages were opened and which actions were taken. It is not derived from anything about you, and it is never combined with your account. Lawful basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at preferences.

Your sign-in sessions. When you sign in we store the session, the IP address it was created from and the browser it was created in, for up to 30 days or until you sign out. This is so you can see where your account is signed in and end sessions you do not recognise, on your account page. It is not used for measurement, never combined with the analytics above, and goes when the session does. Separately, to slow down password guessing, sign-in attempts are counted for a few minutes against a keyed digest of the IP address; the address itself is not stored. Lawful basis: our legitimate interest in keeping accounts secure.

We do not build a profile of you, and nothing above is used to advertise to you or shared with anyone for marketing.

Necessary. Signing in and remembering your language. The site does not work without them, so they are not subject to consent.

Your measurement choice, kept for 365 days so we stop asking. Recording that you said no is itself the reason this one exists.

The measurement identifier, only if you allowed it. Declining deletes it rather than merely letting it expire.

A side you picked before signing in, kept for 7 days. It holds the choice — “for, on this debate” — and not an identifier, so there is nothing in it that could follow you between pages or be joined to anything else. It becomes a vote if you create an account, and expires if you do not.

Where you first arrived from, only if you allowed measurement, and kept for 30 days. It holds a short label — “reddit”, or the campaign on a link — so that an account can be counted against the place that brought you. It contains no identifier and is deleted with the rest if you withdraw.

All of them are first-party and none can be read by scripts in your browser.

Arguments, and the answers written under them, are sent to Google’s Gemini API so a verdict can be produced — when a debate closes, and from time to time while it is still open, so the verdict on the page stays current. That is a processor acting on our instructions. Your name, email and account are not sent — the model sees the text and nothing identifying about who wrote it.

Everything you post is screened for abuse. A moment after an argument or an answer is published, its text is sent to the same processor to check it for harassment, hate, threats, sexual or illegal content, spam and other people’s private details. Nothing identifying is sent with it. If something is found, the text stays up and is marked for a person on our team to review — the model never removes anything or decides about your account on its own. Lawful basis: our legitimate interest in keeping the site a safe place to argue.

If you ask for help with a draft — the “check my argument” or “steelman the other side” buttons in the composer — the text you have written is sent to the same processor at that moment, before you have published anything. Nothing identifying is sent with it, nothing is stored, and it only happens when you press the button.

The verdict judges the quality of the arguments submitted. It is not a statement of objective truth about the question.

You can access, correct, export or delete your data, object to processing, and complain to a supervisory authority — in Poland, the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO).

Two of those are buttons rather than requests. Your account page downloads everything we hold about you as a JSON file, and deletes the account. For anything else, write to us at the address above.

Deleting your account removes your email, name, username, bio and reactions. Your arguments stay, with your name removed from them. Other people replied to them and a verdict was reached on them; deleting them would rewrite debates that are not yours. If you need an argument itself removed, write to us.

If this policy changes in a way that affects what you consented to, you will be asked again rather than have an old answer reinterpreted as covering something new.