Privacy Policy

At Minkly LLC ("Minkly," "we," or "us"), we are committed to protecting your privacy and keeping your information safe. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and keep information that can identify you when you create a Minkly account and use our website and related services, including features that let you publish content, interact with other users, and manage your account.

Our Terms of Agreement apply to this Privacy Policy. By creating an account, using the service, or submitting information through Minkly, you acknowledge that we may collect, use, and disclose your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not want your information to be used in these ways, please stop using the service.

This is important, and we encourage you to read it carefully.

"Personal Information" is any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. This may include, but is not limited to, your name, mailing address, telephone number, email address, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, age, and gender. Where applicable, we indicate whether and why you must provide us with your Personal Information, as well as the consequences of failing to do so. If you do not provide Personal Information when requested, you may not be able to benefit from our Services if that information is necessary to provide you with them or if we are legally required to collect it.

Depending on how you use Minkly, we may collect information such as:

• account information such as username, email address, and password
• profile information such as avatar, bio, external links, first name, and last name
• content you create or upload, including stories, chapters, cover images, and images inside content
• community activity such as comments, ratings, reviews, reactions, private messages, reports, and contest votes
• payment or payout-related information where subscriptions, purchases, or author payouts apply

We use this information to create and maintain your account, provide publishing and reading features, support messaging and community features, process payments or payouts where applicable, respond to support requests, review reports, enforce our rules, and keep the service reliable and safe.

Information we automatically collect from your use of our Services

The app stores some information in your browser to keep the service working correctly. This can include sign-in state, app preferences, playback state, cookie consent choices, and similar settings.

Minkly shows a cookie and browser-storage prompt before loading optional analytics, advertising, or session replay tools. If you reject non-essential tracking, the app continues to operate with essential storage only.

Essential storage may still be used for account sessions, app preferences, playback state, and your saved consent choice.

Optional services that only load after you accept include:

• third-party product analytics tool
• advertising attributions tracking
• speed and performance measurement tools
• advertisments personalization tools

Minkly does not publicly expose personal information such as your email address, password, or similar private account details to other users. Your real name is also not treated as public-facing profile information by default.

What other Minkly users can see depends mainly on what you choose to publish or display through the service. If you use public features, other users may be able to see things such as your username, avatar, stories, comments, ratings, reviews, and other content or activity you choose to make visible.

In particular, the public profile page may show profile information that you entered yourself, including your chosen username, your bio, and any external links you add to your profile.

Minkly also includes privacy controls. For example, the app includes settings to make a profile private and to allow or block private messages. If you choose more restrictive visibility settings, your account may be less visible to other users and may not appear to them in the normal public parts of the service.

We may keep information for as long as it is reasonably needed to operate the service, maintain safety, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our Terms of Agreement.

We take reasonable steps to protect information, but no method of storage or transmission is completely secure.

You can manage some information directly inside your account, including parts of your profile, profile visibility, messaging settings, and certain app preferences.

If you want to ask about access, correction, deletion, or another privacy-related request, contact us (support@minkly.io) and we may need to verify your identity before responding.

You can request account deletion by contacting us (support@minkly.io).

When an account is deleted, we may remove or disconnect profile information and content tied to that account. We may still keep limited information where reasonably necessary for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, transaction records, dispute resolution, or enforcement of our Terms of Agreement.

Minkly is not intended for children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information through the service, please contact us (support@minkly.io) so we can review it.

We do not sell your personal data.

We may share information with third-party integrations or service providers when that is needed to operate the app. For example, that can include services involved in payments, file storage, analytics, monitoring, messaging, advertising, embedded media, or similar operational functions.

Current examples include Supabase for account and backend services, Stripe for payments, Sentry for monitoring, PostHog for product analytics, Reddit Pixel and Google AdSense for advertising-related functions, Ahrefs Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights for site measurement, and video or media providers where content is embedded.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the date at the top of this page.

If you have privacy questions about Minkly, contact us (support@minkly.io).