Privacy Policy

• You can browse every ranking and title page without an account and without giving us any information.
• If you sign up we store your e-mail address, nickname, avatar choice, and your ratings, reviews, likes and reports.
• No analytics, no ad tracking, no third-party analytics scripts.
• We don't sell or rent your personal information.

Only when you create an account or use the community features do we store the following:

• E-mail address: for signing in and password reset. It is never shown publicly.
• Password: stored only as a hash. We can't see your password.
• Nickname and avatar: the nickname is public; the avatar is your nickname's first letter, one of the built-in gradient avatars, or your Google picture.
• Your ratings (1–10 and optional sub-scores), reviews (with the spoiler flag), the “helpful” likes you give, and the reports you file (including the text of the reported review at that moment). Reviews, nicknames and avatars are shown publicly.
• Sign-in sessions: a session cookie and a matching session record (token and expiry). The session record does not contain your IP address or browser details.
• Moderation records: the outcome of moderators' actions on reviews, such as hiding or removing.

When you sign in with Google we read only the basic profile Google gives us: name, e-mail address and profile picture address. We don't store Google's access tokens and never access anything else in your Google account.

You don't need to give a name, phone number or other personal data to browse the site. Please don't put personal information in reviews.

We use only the cookies and browser storage the site needs to work. They are not used for tracking or ads:

• Session cookie: keeps you signed in.
• lang: the interface language you chose (kept for a year).
• region: the viewing region you chose.
• aniindex-geo: when you open a title page and have not chosen a region, the CDN in front of the site tells us your country code and we store it in this cookie to show your region's platforms by default. It holds only a country code, never an IP address.
• Browser local storage (localStorage): your light / dark theme and chart view choices. They stay in your browser.

The site has no analytics tool, no ads and no social-network tracking scripts. We don't know which pages a particular visitor looked at.

Cloudflare sits in front of the site as a CDN and for security. The web server's access logs (IP address, requested URL, browser identifier) are used to debug problems and stop abuse, and are deleted automatically after about 14 days. Rate limits on sign-in, sign-up and community actions read your IP address only at request time and don't store it in the database.

We don't sell data. To run the site, these services see limited information:

• Cloudflare: as CDN and security, it handles requests to the site (including IP addresses).
• Google: only if you choose “Sign in with Google”, to verify your identity.
• Resend: sends password-reset e-mails, so it receives your e-mail address and the message. It is used only when you ask for a reset.
• Anthropic (Claude): the sentence you type in “Rank This Season For Me” may be sent to Anthropic to turn it into structured preferences, without any account information; the ranking itself always uses real titles from our own database. Please don't put personal information in that sentence.
• Cover images come from AniList, Bangumi and similar sites and are fetched and cached through our server.

Apart from what the law requires, we don't give your personal information to anyone else.

• Account data, ratings, reviews, likes and reports: kept while your account exists.
• Deleting your account: write to us from the e-mail address you signed up with and ask for deletion. After checking, usually within 30 days, we delete your account, sessions, ratings, reviews, likes and the reports you filed.
• Database backups are kept for at most 14 days, so deleted data can remain in backups for up to 14 more days and then disappears as backups rotate.
• Web server access logs: about 14 days.
• Password-reset tokens: valid for 1 hour and void once used.

Tell us about account-deletion and other data requests through the site's contact details.

You can ask to see what we store about you, have it corrected, get a copy, or have it deleted. You can change your nickname and avatar yourself at any time on your profile page. For other requests, use the contact e-mail published on this site.

The site is not meant for children under 13 and we don't knowingly collect their personal information. If you find that a child has signed up without a guardian's consent, contact us and we will delete the account.

We may update this policy. Material changes will be explained on the page, and the date of the last update is shown at the top.