We are a group of volunteers who decided to build a website dedicated to sharing life stories.
We wanted a website that allows for anonymous sharing and discussions, and we decided that our best option was to build our own.
We firmly believe in transparency, and we advocate for it.
Anyone has the right to speak freely and express how they feel, without getting banned or tracked across the web.
We trust most users are genuine, and their intentions are anything but malicious, therefore, a platform that is not as restrictive, can be very useful.
We believe that a self moderating platform with minimal intervention is a better alternative to a micro-managed platform.
To offer an unbiased platform for users share and discuss
To limit intervention and moderation
To offer value add through enrichment and synergy
To respect the privacy of our users, and the information/data they entrust us with.
We do not track your browsing habits
We do not log your IP Address (albeit, we log a hashed (scrambled) version of it, to prevent duplicates, and potential abuse to the system)
We do not share any information about you, with third party tracking services or otherwise.
We do not use any external embedded contents
We do not save tracking information (cookies) in your computer.
We are transparent. If you are unclear about something, get in touch with us, and we will be more than happy to clarify.
We take privacy very seriously, therefore, the data collected on this site is very minimal.
This website is designed to be minimally invasive to our users privacy.
Here is the data we collect and how we use it:
IP Address: hashed only. Meaning, we do not collect your IP address, but a scrambled version of it, think of it as a one way encryption, we can generate that same hash from your IP address but we can not get your IP address from the hash. This hash is used to prevent duplicate voting and flagging, etc.
Cookies: none - We went the extra length here to do away with cookies. We love cookies so much, we don't want to share them with anyone else :|
AJAX: used internally (within LifeStories.cc only), and currenly only for CAPTCHA verification requests.
IFRAMES: none
Embedded scripts: internal only, none external.
Embedded fonts: internal only, none external.
Trackers: none
Third party trackers: none
Visitors Logs: Our system is configured to log visitors IP addresses, this is to guard against unauthorized access, brute force, and denial of service attacks, also to help with web analytics. These logs are independant from the website, and may in no way be linked or cross referenced to users interactions (posts/comments) on the website.
Software: We only use well established, top quality, highly reputable, open source software, so that we can have better control of our data, and ensure that our users' privacy is not compromised, through backdoors, or otherwise.
LifeStories.cc is one of the few websites where you can browse and interact, with some of the highest regards to privacy.
We value our privacy, and we understand why you would feel the same about yours :)
P.S:
Please be advised that more extreme measures can be taken in the future, should there be an abuse to the system.
We trust that the majority of our users will keep conversations civil and within the scope and original intent of this website.
While we are proponents of freedom of speech and inclusion, we reserve the right to remove posts/comments which fall under (but not limited to) any of the followings:
Hate
Racism
Violence
Libeling
Bullying / Name Calling
Harrassment
Confidential and personal information
Offending posts/comments with low ratings and/or high number of flags, will be automatically hidden then ultimately removed, however, under certain circumstances, we may have to manually remove them before the system does!
Verified official requests for take downs will be honored, granted the offending posts do violate our terms of use.
VPN: VPN Use is not prohibited, but we see no good reason for using VPN on our website, as we do not block, nor track our users.
Note: If the use of VPN will faciliate the abuse of the service, we may have to start blocking VPNs.