Less is more, especially with addresses

Privacy

Location

If you share a location or type a town or postal code when you list a sock, we do not store the exact point or a street address. We round it to about a kilometre and add a little random jitter. The public profile only shows a neighbourhood-style label, such as “near Halifax,” and other visitors see a rounded distance (“about 4 km away”). Searching the site uses your location in memory for that request; we do not keep a browse history of where you stood.

Photos and EXIF

Every uploaded photo is re-encoded on the server. That step drops hidden metadata, including GPS coordinates that cameras sometimes embed. The original file is not kept. Files are stored outside the web root with unguessable names and are only served for listings a visitor is allowed to see.

Email and winks

An email address on a listing is optional, is never shown on the public site, and is only used to queue a notice about winks or the owner link. Sending those emails is designed but currently switched off, pending approval. Winks themselves are stored on the site and read through a private owner link, which you should treat like a password.

Deletion

You can request that a listing, its photos, and related winks be taken down. Use the owner link if you still have it, or the form below. Please include the sock’s name and anything else that helps us find it.