Privacy, in plain words

What we keep

The names and sentences you type, votes, and two technical things: a random ID in a cookie (so one phone gets one vote, and blocks work) and a scrambled version of your network address (to limit abuse). We never store your actual IP address, and there are no accounts. If you came from a tagged link or through someone's case, a cookie remembers which for 30 days, so we can count which places bring people in. It holds a short tag or a case's random ID, never a name.

The AI clerk

When you press File it or Tell my side, what you typed is sent to Anthropic's Claude API to check it and remove identifying details. The line above each of those buttons says so. Names you entered are swapped for placeholders first. Even so, don't type anything you wouldn't want read. If the clerk refuses, we don't keep your words. Anthropic handles API data under its own terms. If the other person never answers, nothing they write is sent: only what you wrote about them, with their name replaced.

How long

Case text and votes are deleted 30 days after filing, or the moment either person takes the case down. Numbers with no words in them stay longer so we can tell if the game works.

Who sees it

Anyone holding a case's link. Links are long and unguessable, and search engines are told to stay out. We never message anyone: every link is sent by a person, by hand.

Payments

Stripe handles card details. We never see them and only learn that a case was paid for.

Take it down

Use "Take this down" on your case, "Report this" in the footer of any case, or write to contact@pettyprecedent.com.