Privacy

Short version: Hideout keeps what it needs to run your account and nothing else. I don't sell your data, I don't run analytics or tracking scripts, and you can download or delete everything from Settings. The details are below. The Terms cover the rest of the rules.

What I collect, and why

• Your account (if you make one): handle, display name, bio, picture, and either an email address and a hashed password or the details of the AniList, Discord or Google account you signed in with (their ID, name and picture). It's there so you can sign in and so people can recognise you.
• Your library: your list, watch history, where you stopped in each episode, subscriptions and the new-episode alerts I sent.
• Social: comments and likes, friends, blocks, messages and reports. Messages aren't end-to-end encrypted; nobody reads them unless one of you reports a message.
• Levels and quests: to give XP I record when you start and finish an episode (which show, episode, how far you got, the time) so the site can tell real watching from skipping. That record only feeds your level and daily quests.
• Technical data: a sign-in cookie, a random browser ID if you don't have an account, and your IP address, which the server and Cloudflare use briefly to limit abuse and keep the site working. I don't build profiles from it.
• Settings such as theme and playback speed stay in your own browser.

Who else sees it

• Cloudflare sits in front of the site and the API and sees traffic like any host would.
• Resend delivers the emails I send you (verification and password reset), so it sees your email address and the message.
• AniList, MyAnimeList, Discord and Google only see what you choose to do with them: signing in, or syncing your list. I only read the basic profile and your list; I never see their passwords. AniList tokens are stored encrypted.
• Discord server: if you link Discord, the bot can give you roles for your level and badges, using your Discord ID. If you turn on Discord presence in Settings, your friends can see what you're watching.
• Video providers and images come from other services that see your IP address when your browser loads them.
• Sponsor pages: Hideout shows one now and then, never before you've finished your first episode, to help pay for the servers. It opens in a new tab on another company's site, which can set its own cookies and has its own privacy policy. I don't pass them any information about you.

Cookies

I use one cookie to keep you signed in (shared across the hideout.rip sites, so one sign-in works for all of them) and a short one that lets the video player work. No analytics, no advertising cookies of my own.

How long I keep it

• Your data stays while your account exists. Deleting your account removes your profile, list, history, comments, friends, messages and watch records straight away.
• Guest data that hasn't been used for 90 days is deleted automatically.
• The database is backed up, encrypted, to cloud storage. Backups age out within six months, and deleted data goes with them.

Your choices

• Download everything I hold about you, clear your history or delete your account in Settings.
• Hide your badges, level or online status, and decide who can find or message you, in Settings and on your profile editor.
• Ask me anything or ask for something to be removed: [email protected].

Children

You need to be 13 or older to make an account. If I find out someone younger has one, I'll delete it.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that matters, I'll say so on the site. The date at the top shows the latest version.

Contact

Email [email protected] or ask in the Discord server.