Privacy Policy
Last updated 24 August 2026
VoteOut collects as little as the mechanism allows. There are no accounts, and voting requires no sign-up.
Voting: what is stored in your browser
When you vote, we store two things to stop the same person voting twice on one listing:
- A random token in your browser's
localStorage. It is not an identifier we can connect to you as a person, and it never leaves this site. - A device fingerprint (an identifier derived from your browser and device configuration, produced by the open-source FingerprintJS library in your own browser). We store only the resulting identifier alongside your vote.
These are tracking technologies under the GDPR and comparable laws, used solely for anti-abuse — not for advertising, profiling, or sale. Clearing site data removes the token; we do not object if you do, and we accept that this makes the vote count approximate.
IP addresses
We do not store IP addresses. To rate-limit automated voting we compute a salted one-way hash of the address and store only that hash with the vote. It cannot be reversed into an address.
Listings and payments
For a listing we store the URL you submitted, its normalized form and domain, the description you wrote, vote counts, timestamps, and a record of your purchase — including which confirmations you ticked and the exact wording shown to you at the time. That consent record exists to resolve payment disputes and is retained while it may be needed for that purpose.
Card details never reach us. Payments are handled by our payment provider acting as merchant of record; it collects what it needs for payment processing and tax compliance under its own privacy policy.
Public information
Listed URLs, descriptions, vote tallies, waitlist bid amounts, and Honor Roll entries are public by design. Honor Roll entries and their frozen tallies are permanent.
Your rights
Depending on where you live you may have the right to access, correct, or delete personal data we hold, or to object to its processing. Write to hello@voteout.xyz. Note that removing a listing does not remove the ban on a domain that was voted out, and does not restore fees.
Analytics and cookies
We set no advertising cookies and run no cross-site trackers. The storage described above is strictly functional.