Privacy notice

The short version

ChargeAlong keeps as little about you as it can. Reading the site needs nothing from you. Posting a review needs no account. Adding photos needs only an email address. There is no advertising and no tracking across other sites.

What we keep

• A random session. The first time you post, your browser gets a random token in a cookie. We keep a scrambled copy of it, and a random pseudonym such as Calm Wombat, so your reviews appear under the same name. We know nothing else about the session.
• What you post. Whether a site worked, your rating, your comment, the pseudonym it was posted under, and when.
• A scrambled form of your internet address. To limit how much one person can post, each post keeps a one way code made from your address with a key that changes every day. Your address itself is never stored, and the code cannot be turned back into it or matched with another day's.
• Photos, if you add them. Every photo is copied into a new, smaller image before it is kept. Everything else in the original file is removed, including the location your phone recorded and the camera details. Photos are checked before anyone else sees them.
• Your email address, if you make an account, used to send you sign in codes, and your agreement that photos you add are licensed CC BY 4.0. That is all an account holds: no real name, no profile, no password.

Cookies

• ca_reviewer holds your random session, for a year, once you post.
• chargealong_session keeps you signed in, if you make an account.
• ca_account tells this browser to show "Your account" instead of "Sign in". It holds nothing else.
• Your light or dark theme choice is kept in your browser, not sent to us.

There are no advertising or analytics cookies.

Who else is involved

• Cloudflare delivers the site and runs Turnstile, the check that a person rather than a script is posting.
• DigitalOcean hosts our servers, database and photo storage, in Sydney.
• Resend delivers the sign in code emails and messages from the contact form.

Like most websites, our servers keep short technical logs, which can include internet addresses. They are used only to keep the site running and roll over automatically. We do not sell or share what we keep.

Delete your account and what you posted

Delete your account from your account page. That removes your email address, your photos and the reviews posted from sessions linked to your account. Anything hidden or deleted by moderation is removed for good.

Contact

To ask about anything here, or about your data, use the contact form. We reply by email.

Changes

If this notice changes, the date at the top changes with it. The rules for posting are in the terms of use.