Privacy Policy
Effective and last updated: September 30, 2026
Information We Collect
We collect your email address if you join the mailing list or submit a seed on the site. It is stored on our server and used to send you updates and to follow up on submissions. It is not sent to Google Analytics. Anti-abuse rate limiting may use your IP address. Your browser may also store vote choices locally (browser local storage) on your own device.
Cookies And Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC) to understand how visitors find and use the site. It sets first-party cookies (such as _ga) and collects pages viewed, approximate location from IP address, browser/device type, referring site, and interactions such as scrolling and outbound clicks. Google Analytics does not store full IP addresses in reports. Page addresses are sent without query strings. Google Signals and ad personalization are disabled. Event-level data is kept for up to 14 months and used in aggregate. No advertising cookies or pixels are used on this site.
See Google's Privacy Policy. You can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on or by blocking cookies or trackers in your browser.
Third-Party Services
- Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC): site analytics, described below.
- Google Fonts (Google LLC): fonts are loaded from Google servers when a page loads.
- Google Sign-In (Google LLC): the Google Identity Services script is loaded on the home page to support optional sign-in for voting; Google may set its own cookies when you use it.
Changes
We may update this policy; the date above shows when it last changed.