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- The documents do not say whether your data trains AI.
- Your data is used for personalized ads, including by third-party ad companies.
- Data is shared with partners and affiliates; you can opt out.
- The documents do not say who can read your content.
They collect account, device, and ad-tracking data, share it for ads, and default your posts to public domain.
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Collected
Account details, surveys, payments, device IDs, IP, location, and data from other companies.
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Privacy policy
“We may collect information about you that falls into the following categories: Directly from you (i.e., when you create an account, contact us, complete a survey or petition, or when you make a purchase), From third parties such as social media networks,”
Training
They run the site, email you, analyze use, and deliver targeted ads.
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Privacy policy
“To deliver targeted advertising to you To support our internal business functions, such as finance, accounting, and audit To perform analyses to develop, maintain, measure, improve, or report on the Services”
Sharing
Service providers, affiliates, advertisers, and other companies that may market to you.
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Privacy policy
“With third parties (e.g., other companies, retailers, distributors, social media networks, research organizations, publishers, and non-profit organizations) for their own purposes, including marketing products or services to you”
Kept
They keep it as long as needed for those purposes; backups and data can last longer.
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Privacy policy
“We retain the information we collect about you for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which we collected the information and to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.”
Controls
Email unsubscribe, ad cookie opt-outs, and email them to access or delete your data.
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Privacy policy
“If you would like to access, review, revise or delete personal data we have collected from you, please contact us at: help@dailykos.com.”
Fine print
They can change rules, ban you at will, posts default public, and they cap what they owe you.
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Terms of service
“We also have a right to ban and block your from the site at our discretion, and will do so if your actions and/or behavior negatively impact the site or its community.”
Expand “Read the exact line” to see the source alongside the explanation.
What you can turn off
The controls and opt-outs their own documents describe, and where they say to find them.
Ask to access or delete your data
Email help@dailykos.com
Opt out of sale (California)
Email privacy@dailykos.com
Unsubscribe from email or SMS
Click unsubscribe in emails, user preferences, or text STOP to 62340
Opt out of targeted ads
Google Ads Preference Manager, NAI opt-out, youradchoices.com, Playwire privacy policy
If a switch is not where they say, the deletion request above still applies.
Line by line
The lines that matter most, worst first.
They can give your information to other companies so those companies can market to you.
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Privacy policy
“With third parties (e.g., other companies, retailers, distributors, social media networks, research organizations, publishers, and non-profit organizations) for their own purposes, including marketing products or services to you”
For example, another group could get your contact details and send you their own fundraising emails.
They use what they know about you to show ads aimed at people like you.
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Privacy policy
“To deliver targeted advertising to you”
For example, advertisers can ask to reach people in your age group based on data collected on the site.
Unless you change it, other people can reuse what you post as if it were public domain.
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Terms of service
“Currently, that copyright defaults to an open content (public domain) license. Authors are free to change that license at their own discretion.”
For example, someone could copy your diary and republish it elsewhere without asking you first.
They can shut your account whenever they decide your behavior is a problem.
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Terms of service
“We also have a right to ban and block your from the site at our discretion, and will do so if your actions and/or behavior negatively impact the site or its community.”
For example, they could ban a paid subscriber without a warning if they think you hurt the community.
If you break the rules and they get sued or lose money, they say that is on you.
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Terms of service
“You Will Be Responsible for Any Harm We Suffer as a Result of Your Violation of These Terms and Conditions”
For example, if a post you write causes a legal fight, they may expect you to cover the cost.
The site is as-is, and they will not pay extra damages if it breaks or causes losses.
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Terms of service
“DailyKos and its affiliates, and their respective members, directors, officers, managers, employees, shareholders, agents and licensors are not for incidental, indirect, consequential, special, punitive, or exemplary damages of any kind”
For example, if the site is down and you miss a campaign deadline, they say they do not owe you money.
Even after they no longer need the live copy, backups can stick around longer.
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Privacy policy
“We may make backups of certain data, which we may retain for longer than the original data.”
For example, a comment you asked them to delete might still sit in a backup for a while.
If you live in California, you can ask what they have, ask them to delete it, and opt out of sale.
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Privacy policy
“California residents have the right to: Request disclosure of collected or shared personal information of your personal information Opt out of the “sale” of personal data”
For example, you can email privacy@dailykos.com and ask them to stop selling your data.
They say kids under 13 should not give them personal information, and they will delete it if they find it.
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Privacy policy
“We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, including children under the age of 13 to the extent that the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act applies”
For example, if a 12-year-old signs up, they say they will remove that account data when they learn of it.
They claim they use basic security, but they also say no system is perfect.
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Privacy policy
“We use administrative, technical, and physical measures to protect the information that we collect through the Services.”
For example, they do not promise your account data can never be accessed without permission.
Words to know
Legal words from the lines above, in plain English.
- third parties
- Any company or person other than you and the app, such as advertisers, partners or analytics firms. For example, an analytics company that receives a record of every screen you tap is a third party.
- targeted advertising
- Ads chosen for you based on what you have done across other apps and websites, not just this one. For example, you look at shoes in one app and see shoe ads in a totally different app the next day.
- retention
- How long a company keeps your data before deleting it. For example, a policy might keep your messages for 30 days after you delete them, or for as long as it likes.
- personal data
- Any information that is about you or can be linked to you, from your name to your phone's ID. For example, your email, your IP address and the list of apps on your phone are all personal data.
- affiliates
- Other companies owned by or connected to the same parent company. For example, if you use one app, its sister apps under the same owner may also get your data.
- limitation of liability
- A cap on what the company will ever pay you if something goes wrong, often only what you paid in the last year. For example, if a leak of your data costs you thousands, the most you may get back is a month's subscription fee.
- right to erasure
- Your right to have a company delete the personal data it holds about you, with some exceptions. For example, you can ask a social app to wipe your old posts and profile and it must, unless a law says otherwise.
- opt out
- Something is on by default and stays on until you find the setting and turn it off. For example, your chats may be used for training unless you go into settings and switch it off.
- sell or share
- Under California law, selling means passing your data to others for money or other value; sharing means passing it on for targeted ads. For example, letting an ad network use your browsing history in return for ad space counts as a sale.
How we got here · grade D · score 35/100 · 15 of 15 policy answers backed by a verified quote · 5 not stated
What does the app collect beyond what it needs to work?
They collect account and payment info plus device IDs, IP, pages you visit, email opens, and location from IP or a mobile device, and data from third parties.
Does it record your voice, face or body, and what happens to that?
Not stated in the documents.
Are your chats and uploads used to train AI models, and is that off by default?
Not stated in the documents.
Can employees or contractors read your conversations, and when?
Not stated in the documents.
Are you profiled or tracked for advertising?
They run targeted ads and work with Google, Playwire, and other ad networks that use cookies to track activity.
Do they sell or share your data, and can you opt out?
They share with service providers and with other companies for those companies’ own marketing, and California residents can opt out of sale.
What rights do they take over what you type and what the AI makes?
Community posts belong to authors but default to an open public-domain license, and posting lets them publish and redistribute the content.
How long do they keep your data after you delete it, and can you delete it in the app?
You delete by emailing them. They keep data as long as needed and may keep backups longer.
Does it build a lasting memory or profile of you, and can you see, edit or turn it off?
Not stated in the documents.
Do they commit to basic security, and have they leaked data?
They say they use administrative, technical, and physical measures but cannot guarantee perfect security.
Is there a real age gate, and are teens protected?
They say they do not knowingly collect from children under 13 (or 16 under GDPR) but do not describe a real age check.
Will they tell you when the rules change, and is the policy specific?
The privacy policy is dated and they post a new date when it changes. They do not promise advance notice of material changes.
Can they close your account without warning, and can you get your data out first?
They can change or remove features and ban or block you at their discretion, including subscribers.
If something goes wrong, who pays?
The site is as-is, damages are limited to what you paid, and they say you are responsible for harm from your violations.
Do subscriptions renew on their own, and can you get a refund?
Not stated in the documents.
The privacy policy is 2,764 words at a college level (Flesch reading ease 44.1); the terms are 1,931 words at a fairly hard level.
