Urban Legends

Data and cookies

Short and specific: what the site stores, what for, and how to get rid of it. If something here doesn't suit you, that feature can be left alone or the account deleted.

Updated: 29 August 2026

Your account

Needed only to add places, vote and send messages. The whole site reads fine without one.

  • Email and password — the password is stored only as a hash, and cannot be recovered, by us either.
  • Name and username — other people see these; that is the point of them.
  • Karma and moderation history, so the rules apply the same way to everyone.

What you publish

Legends, photos and comments are public and indexed by search engines — that is what a catalogue is for.

  • The coordinates and photographs of a place you add.
  • Uploaded images are screened automatically before they appear.

Strictly necessary cookies

Always on and exempt from consent — the site does not function without them, which the law provides for directly.

  • Your sign-in session; without it every page would log you out.
  • Your chosen language, your theme, and the record of the decision you made on this page — all kept in your browser.

Analytics

Nothing loads until you press Accept. Refusing breaks nothing — the site behaves identically.

  • Vercel Web Analytics: anonymous page-view statistics — which pages get opened and which site a visitor arrived from. No cookies, no visitor profile, no tracking across other sites.
  • You can withdraw at any time via "Cookie settings" at the foot of the page; collection stops immediately.

Your rights

What is stored about you stays under your control.

  • Delete your account, and your data goes with it.
  • Withdraw analytics consent from one link at the foot of any page.
  • Your data is not sold, and not shared with third parties for advertising.