Project Chíp Chíp

Updated September 28, 2026

What we collect

When you comment: the name you enter, an optional email and your comment. The name and comment are shown publicly under the article. The email is never shown publicly; only the editors can see it.
When you write through the Contact page or the "Report a mistake" button: your name, an optional email, your message, the page language and, for a mistake report, the article you were reading. Only the editors can read it.
Your IP address is not stored. To stop spam, it is run through a one-way hash with a secret value, producing a code that cannot be reversed and is used only to count how often someone sends.
Readers need no account. The site uses no advertising cookies and no third-party tracking or analytics tools.

One cookie, NEXT_LOCALE, remembers the language you chose.
Your browser remembers a few display choices, such as a collapsed topic column. That stays on your device and is never sent to the server.
YouTube and TikTok videos load only when you press play (YouTube in its youtube-nocookie mode). YouTube preview images load from YouTube's servers. Once a video plays, that platform's own policy applies.
The sign-in cookie exists only for editors who log in; it keeps them signed in across the site and marks their comment replies as the author's. Readers never receive it.

Showing comments, reading and answering messages, fixing mistakes in articles, and blocking spam.
Never for advertising, marketing email or building reader profiles.

The hashed IP codes used by the spam counter are deleted about a day later, whenever the next rate check runs.
Comments and messages are kept until you ask for them to be deleted, or until the editors remove them.

We do not sell, rent or trade your data.
Data is stored with Supabase, the database service the project uses. The hosting provider that serves the website (Vercel) also keeps standard request logs, which may include IP addresses.
When the author drafts a translation of an article, that article's text is sent to DeepSeek to be translated. Comments, messages and reader details are never sent.

You can ask to see, correct or delete your comments and messages. Write through the Contact page, giving the name you used and the article you commented on so we can find them.