privacy policy
knoxville.plus has and intends to keep a strict operating budget. there may be times the service is inaccessible, due to quirks in magic, internet routers, holding your mouth that way, or just too many requests to cheap servers.
we don't have much of a budget, so we run a tight ship. one of the nice consequences of keeping our bill small is that we don't need to sell your personal preferences or usage history under the table to eat.
/search: we see your search long enough to answer it, but we don't save the search text or build a history of what you search for.
we do want to know, broadly, what Knoxville is looking for. before a search disappears, it contributes a deliberately randomized data point to a predefined list of topics. one data point isn't a reliable description of one search, but enough of them together can tell us things like “people are looking for breakfast more often lately.” you can see the complete list of topics we look for and how it works without comprimising your privacy.
/sports is a different animal. it stores an identifier in a cookie so you can keep a score streak and be recognized by your handle when making submissions. on the server, that identifier is attached only to your voting choices, event submissions, first and most recent dates active, current and previous handles, and when those changes were submitted. it is not attached to your searches or other knoxville.plus activity.