Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

EchoSaid ("we", "us" or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data in accordance with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).

2. Data We Collect

We collect the following categories of personal data:

• Email address (upon registration)
• IP address at login (for security purposes)
• Your reactions and votes on quotes
• Edit proposals and moderator requests
• Anonymized traffic data after cookie consent (pageviews, referrer, country, user-agent heuristics)

3. Purpose of Processing

We process your data to provide platform services, ensure account security, communicate about your submissions status, and improve our services.

If you consent to cookies, we measure anonymous traffic to understand site usage, detect technical problems, and plan content. We do not use this data for user profiling.

4. Your Rights

Under GDPR, you have the following rights:

• Right to access your data (Article 15)
• Right to rectification (Article 16)
• Right to erasure / delete account (Article 17)
• Right to data portability (Article 20)

5. Data Retention

We retain your data for the duration of your account existence. After account deletion, all your personal data will be removed within 30 days.

Anonymous analytics events are retained in aggregatable form for up to 25 months, then deleted or further anonymized.

7. Cookies and Anonymous Analytics

Essential cookies are used for login and preferences. Optional analytics activates only after your consent and records limited technical visit data, not form contents or full user identities.

6. Contact

If you have questions about your data protection, contact us at: [email protected]