Privacy Policy
Leopard protects your privacy.
We don't want your private information. No, really. We only store what is absolutely necessary. Anything else is a safety risk for you and a liability for us.
We provide complete transparency. The policy below describes exactly what we gather and why, and our code is open source so you can see 100% of what we do.
We fund Leopard through donations. Leopard isn't in the business of selling your personal information. We bring in money when people trust us and want to support our work, so our incentives are aligned with yours.
Questions or concerns? If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy, you can email us.
This privacy policy for Leopard ("we", "us", "our") describes how and why we collect, store, and/or share ("gather", "use", "collect", "process") your information when you use our services ("Leopard"), such as when you visit our website at leopardjs.com.
If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use Leopard.
What information does Leopard gather?
To protect your privacy, Leopard avoids gathering unnecessary information about you. We only collect personal information that you provide to us directly, and we only collect what we absolutely need to make the website function.
Public information
This information will appear publicly on Leopard. Only submit things that can be seen by everyone.
- Your username: Everyone can see this. It is used to identify you.
- Projects you create: Projects you create and share are visible to the whole world. We do our best to ensure that your private projects are visible only to you, but we do rely on external providers to host your content.
- Comments and messages you send: Your comments and messages on Leopard are public to the whole world.
- Public interactions: When you interact with users or content on Leopard, other people may see those interactions.
Private information
This information will never be shared. However, it may be used by the Leopard core team for the purposes of making Leopard work or responding to your requests.
- Email addresses: Used to verify your identity (which helps prevent spam) and contact you
- Password: Securely hashed so that nobody has access to your password, including us.
- Birthday month & year: Used to provide age-appropriate safety features.
Why is Leopard allowed to use my information?
Using information is only legal if it done for legitimate reasons. Leopard's legal basis for most information processing is called "legitimate interest", which means that we are using your information responsibly, in ways that you would reasonably expect based on the service we perform.
Leopard also reserves the right to use your information if you explicitly opt-in or if we are required to by law.
Does Leopard share my information?
No. Some of your information appears publicly on the website, as described above, but we do not share any of your private information with anyone outside of our core team (as described in the "private information" section above).
Like the vast majority of online services, we do use third party providers to store your information. We store almost all of your information on servers provided by Amazon Web Services, and our web traffic is routed through Vercel.
What are my rights? How can I have my information deleted?
If you wish, you can contact us to request a copy of your information or to request that your information be deleted.
Anything you permanently delete on Leopard is immediately removed from our database. However, we may retain backups of our database for up to 30 days for the purposes of disaster recovery.
Updates to this policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by the "last updated" date at the top of the policy.
If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we will notify you either by prominantly displaying a notice on the Leopard website or by contacting you directly via email.