Privacy.

Two different things live under this word here: what we hold about you, and what the chain holds because you published it. They could not be more different, so this page keeps them apart.

What we hold about you

Today: nothing. There are no visitor accounts here, no tracking, no advertising pixels and no cookies. Pages are read from Hive’s public nodes and rendered; nothing about your visit is recorded by us.

That will change as the product grows. Paid plans mean payment records, and if we offer analytics they will mean measuring visits. When either arrives, this page changes first, consent is asked where European law (the GDPR, in the Netherlands the AVG) requires it, and nothing is collected quietly in the meantime.

What the chain holds because you published it

A page you publish through this site is a signed operation on the Hive blockchain: public, worldwide and permanent. We do not run the chain and cannot edit it. We can decline to show something in our reader; we cannot remove it from the chain, and other readers may still show it. Publish what you are content to have stand.

Pictures sit just outside that, and it is worth knowing which way. Your page carries the address of a picture rather than the picture itself, and a picture uploaded here goes to Hive’s own image service rather than into a block. It is public from the moment it is uploaded, and that service gives us no way to remove it. Changing the address on your page stops this reader showing it; the file stays where it was put.

Who sees your requests

Reading a page asks Hive’s public nodes, sometimes directly from your browser. The operators of those nodes see the requests, the way any site’s host sees its traffic. We send them nothing about you beyond the request itself.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you may ask what we hold about you, have it corrected, or have it deleted. Today the honest answer to the first question is: nothing, unless you have written to us. For what you signed onto the chain, deletion is not ours to give; the section above is the truthful version of that sentence. Questions reach us through OpenAttribute.