Seal of the society

Privacy Policy

What We Know About You, Which Is Less Than You Fear

Last updated: November 12, 2026

Who we are. Vibe Coders Anonymous ("the Society," "we," "the hooded figures") runs vibecodersanonymous.com. Contact: hello@vibecodersanonymous.com.

What we collect. This is the whole list. Really.

  • When you join: your name, your email, a password, and your first confession. Your password goes straight to our sign in provider, which stores it scrambled. We could not read it if we tried, and we did not try.
  • Your member record: your member number, the date you were initiated, and who vouched for you.
  • Confessions and "Been there" taps. Post anonymously and other members see "Member No. [redacted]." The people who run the Society can still see who wrote what, so we can remove anything that breaks the rules. Anonymous to the room, not to the bouncer. Confessions marked shareable may be reworded and posted outside the Society with no name attached; uncheck the box to keep that one inside.
  • Invites: when you vouch for someone, you give us their first name and email. We use it only for that one invitation, which expires after 30 days.
  • Pleas: we keep your name, email, link and line so the Society can review your case, and delete them on request. The bouncer is not a data collector.
  • The boring stuff: our hosting provider keeps basic technical logs and page visit counts (time, page, browser type), like basically every website on Earth.

Visitor analytics. The honest version. Our host, Lovable, counts visits for us: which pages, button and link clicks, where you came from, your country, browser, operating system, device type, time on page, load speed and errors. It does this without cookies and without keeping your IP address, so it knows a visitor clicked "Knock," not that it was you. Detailed data is kept for 90 days, daily totals for a year. Lovable's own privacy policy covers how it handles this.

Fonts. Our fancy letters come from Google Fonts, so your browser asks Google for the font files, and Google sees your IP address and basic browser info when it does. That is all Google gets from us.

What we do not do. We do not sell your data. We do not run ads. We have no tracking pixels, no data broker, and no guy named Kevin who "just wants the emails."

Who helps us. Lovable and its cloud database host the site and store your data. Resend delivers our emails. Cloudflare runs our domain and forwards mail sent to us. Google Fonts serves our typefaces. They handle your data only to do those jobs.

Cookies. Your browser keeps a sign in token so you stay signed in, a door key to count failed knocks, and a short lived invitation proof when you follow an email link. We keep only a hash of your IP and door key for the lock, not the address itself. No advertising cookies. No chocolate chips either. We checked.

Emails. If a member vouches for you, you may get one invitation email from invites@vibecodersanonymous.com. Every email has a way out. Want nothing from us, ever? Email hello@vibecodersanonymous.com and it is done.

Keeping and deleting. We keep your data while you are a member. Want out? Email hello@vibecodersanonymous.com and we will delete your account, your confessions and your member record within 30 days. Your member number is never reissued. It is retired, like a jersey.

Your rights. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to see, correct, export or delete your data. Ask at hello@vibecodersanonymous.com and we will answer within 30 days.

Age. Members must be 18 or older. If you are not, close this tab and go outside.

Security. Data is locked so members only see what they are allowed to see: other members' emails stay hidden, anonymous authors stay hidden, and only the people running the Society see backstage. No system is perfect. We vibe coded this, after all. But we also tested it, which is the twist. Found a hole? See "Found a bug?" in the Terms.

Changes. If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too.