Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 30, 2026. Operated by Jimmy Snow Media LLC. Contact: Contact@qnaline.com.

What we collect, and where it comes from

From Patreon, when you sign in: your Patreon user id, email address, membership status and current pledge amount for The Line's campaign. That's the whole list — we deliberately do not request or store your Patreon account name: the only name this service ever holds is the community name you choose here. Patreon does not give us your payment details, your date of birth, or your activity elsewhere, and we never see or store a password because there are no passwords here.

Created here, by you: your handle, display name, bio, avatar, comments and questions, votes, poll and forecast responses, submitted links, flags you raise on a story ("already covered", "duplicate"), reports you file (plus, if you attach one, a screen recording and basic device context like browser version and screen size), and the activity ledgers behind your reputation and LineCoin.

Created here, for you: your in-app notifications — a short record of things that happened to you, such as a reply to your comment or a story you backed making the show. They live in the app only; we do not email them to you.

Created here, as you use the feed: which stories the feed showed you and which ones you opened, with the time, kept with your account. We use it to learn which stories the room cares about, so better ones rise to the top. Staff see totals per story, not a list of what you personally looked at.

Created here, about the service: ordinary server logs (IP address, request path, timestamp) kept for security and debugging.

What we do with it

Run the Newsroom. Your community name, Patreon user id and pledge context are visible to our moderators so they can approve arrivals and review profiles, along with whether you were recently active and a running list of newsroom activity (comments posted, links submitted, stories starred or flagged) so staff can keep an eye on the room. Other patrons only ever see your chosen display name, handle, bio, avatar, badge, and what you post. Questions and comments may be read on the show. Your email is used only to match your Patreon membership — we do not currently send any email notices at all; if that ever changes it will be to the opt-in you chose, and you can withdraw it at any time.

We do not sell your data, share it with advertisers, or run third-party analytics or tracking of any kind. Every cookie we set is our own and exists to run the app: a signed, httpOnly session cookie that keeps you signed in; a short random value beside it so the app can tell one sign-in from the next; brief ones that carry an invite code or secure the Patreon sign-in handshake; one recording that you are using the iPhone app; and, for staff only, one remembering a "view the app as" preview. We also keep a little information in your browser's own storage — which stories you have already seen, and a copy of the feed so pages open quickly. None of it is advertising, none of it follows you to other sites, and signing out clears the copies we made.

Who else touches it

Patreon (sign-in and membership status — their own privacy policy applies), and our hosting provider, Railway, where the app and its database run. That's the list. No data brokers, no ad networks. Both providers operate in the United States; if you use the Newsroom from outside the US, your data is processed in the US.

Why we're allowed to hold it

For visitors in regions that ask us to name a legal basis (such as the EU/UK under the GDPR): we process your account data to perform our agreement with you (running the membership benefit you signed in for), and we keep security logs on the basis of our legitimate interest in keeping the service safe. Email notices, if we ever send them, rely on your consent (the opt-in you choose at sign-up), which you can withdraw at any time.

Security

The site is HTTPS-only (the domain's entire top-level zone enforces it at the browser level). Sessions are signed, httpOnly cookies. Access is tier-checked on every sign-in; staff surfaces require staff accounts; every moderation action is written to an audit log. Uploads are validated by content, stored under names we generate, and profile images and bios are human-reviewed before other patrons ever see them. Rate limits apply across the app. No design survives contact with zero risk, but the design goal is simple: hold as little as possible, and expose as little of that as possible.

Retention and deletion

Your content stays while your account does. Removed comments become tombstones (the text and author are gone; the thread structure stays). Issue-report recordings are deleted after review, and at most 30 days. Notifications are a rolling record and are deleted with your account. Server logs are kept up to one year. If you ask us to delete your account — Contact@qnaline.com, from the email on your Patreon account — we revoke sessions, delete your profile, bio and avatar, and remove or tombstone your content; ledgers are deleted with the account. Bans record the Patreon identity so they hold even after deletion. In the iPhone app, deletion is available from inside the app, as Apple requires; on the web it's the email request above.

You choose how final it is. A standard deletion holds your account in a recoverable state for 60 days — so an accidental or regretted deletion can be undone by signing back in within that window — and is then purged permanently and automatically. If you'd rather not wait, you can ask for immediate permanent deletion and we'll purge it right away. Either way, once the purge runs it can't be reversed.

Your rights and choices

Wherever you live, you can ask us to:

• See what we hold about you, and where it came from;
• Correct it — most of it you can change yourself on your account page;
• Delete your account and its data (see above);
• Object to or restrict a particular use, or withdraw consent for email;
• Get a copy of what you gave us, in a portable form.

To exercise any of these, email Contact@qnaline.com from the address on your Patreon account. We don't charge for it, and we won't treat you differently for asking.

We do not sell or "share" your personal information (as California's CCPA/CPRA uses those words) and never have, so there is nothing to opt out of — but the right to opt out is yours regardless, and we honor browser Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals as an opt-out. California residents also have the rights listed above and the right not to be discriminated against for using them.

Age

The Newsroom is for adults 18 and over. We don't knowingly hold data about anyone under 18; if we learn we do, we delete it.

Changes

Material changes get announced in the app before they take effect.