Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

How akasammythepuppy.me handles information about visitors, and the information it receives from the social platforms connected to Sammy’s own accounts.

Effective . Questions go to contact@akasammythepuppy.me.

Summary

Visiting the site

Hosting and security

The site is hosted on Cloudflare. To deliver pages and protect the site from abuse, Cloudflare processes the technical details every web request carries: your IP address, your browser’s user agent, the page you asked for and the page that linked to it. A sample of these requests is logged for troubleshooting and kept under Cloudflare’s standard retention.

Analytics and measurement

Two services help Sammy understand how the site is used:

Neither loads until your first click, key press or tap on a page. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, neither loads at all, and the site’s server refuses to forward any event to Meta.

Embedded and live content

Those services receive the standard details of each request, such as your IP address and browser user agent, and nothing else from this site.

Cookies

The site itself sets no cookies for visitors. Meta and Microsoft may set their own cookies when their analytics load, as described above. The owner-only admin area uses cookies that are strictly necessary for signing in.

Connected platforms

To keep its creator pages current, the site connects to Sammy’s own accounts through each platform’s official API, with Sammy’s authorization. These connections are not used to sign visitors in, and they never request access to anyone else’s account. The information is used only to display Sammy’s public content and dated account totals on the home, work and media kit pages. It is not sold, not used to target advertising and not combined with visitor analytics.

TikTok
Through Login Kit and the Display API, with the user.info.basic, user.info.profile, user.info.stats and video.list scopes: the account’s identifier and username, used to confirm the connected account is @akasammythepuppy; the follower, following, like and public video totals; and recent public videos with their description, cover image, link and view, like and comment counts.
Instagram
Through the Instagram API with Instagram Login, with the instagram_business_basic and instagram_business_manage_insights permissions: the account’s username and follower, following and post counts; recent public posts with their caption, image, link and like and comment counts; and audience demographics by age range, gender and country, shown only as aggregate percentages. No information about individual followers is collected.
YouTube
Through YouTube API Services and the channel’s public video feed: subscriber, video and view totals, and recent public videos. YouTube statistics are short-lived and are kept for no more than 30 days. This site uses YouTube API Services: see the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy. Any access granted to the site can be revoked from Google’s security settings.
Twitch
Through the Twitch API: whether Sammy is live, with the stream’s title, category, start time and preview image; the current viewer count; and the channel’s follower total, read with Sammy’s authorization (moderator:read:followers).
Kick
Through the Kick API: live viewer counts for Sammy’s channel, with Sammy’s authorization (user:read and channel:read) where connected.
Discord
Sammy’s own presence (online status, current activity and music) through Lanyard, and the Mello Zone server’s public online count through Discord’s widget.
Bluesky, GitHub and X
Public profile totals and recent public posts through each platform’s public API. X is read only when its paid API access is enabled.
Mello Zone
Recent public articles from the blog feed at mellozone.site, a separate website with its own policies.

Security

Platform authorizations are stored encrypted with AES-GCM in Cloudflare’s key-value storage, or as encrypted secrets and an encrypted state file in the site’s private source repository. Long-lived refresh credentials never leave the server, and the admin area that manages connections is restricted to the site owner’s GitHub account.

Retention

Data deletion

To ask for any information this site holds about you to be deleted, email contact@akasammythepuppy.me with the subject “Data deletion request”.

Visitors

The site keeps very little about visitors, and its request logs expire on their own. Information collected by Meta or Microsoft can also be managed under the Meta Privacy Policy and the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Connected platform accounts

Disconnecting a platform in the site’s admin area deletes its stored authorization immediately. Access can also be revoked at any time from each platform’s connected apps or app permissions settings. Public content already shown on the site is removed at the next refresh, or straight away on request.

People shown in Sammy’s posts

If a cached copy of one of Sammy’s posts shows you and you want it removed from this site, email the address above and it will be taken down.

Children

This site is not directed to children under 13, and it does not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Your choices

Changes to this policy

When this policy changes, its effective date is updated and the change is recorded in the changelog. The Terms of Service cover the rest of your use of the site.

Contact

Privacy questions and requests: contact@akasammythepuppy.me.

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