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These pages explain how Paranoid Review works, what readers agree to when they use it, and what information the site uses to provide accounts, reviews, comments, likes, and saved entries.
Last updated: August 29, 2026The short version
Paranoid Review is a personal index for films, games, and albums. You may read, share, comment, like, and save entries through the features provided. Do not use the service to harass people, spam, impersonate others, or submit content that you do not have the right to share.
01 — Use of the service
02 — Community standards
Do not submit spam, threats, hateful harassment, impersonation, malicious code, or content intended to disrupt the service. The site owner may remove content or restrict an account when necessary to protect the service or its readers.
03 — Your content
You keep ownership of your reviews, comments, profile text, and other material you submit. By posting, you give Paranoid Review permission to display that material as part of the service, including publicly on the relevant review or profile. Do not submit another person’s private information or copyrighted material without permission.
04 — Changes
The site owner may update these Terms or the Privacy Policy when the service or its data practices change. The updated date will be shown above. Continuing to use the service after an update means you have had an opportunity to review it.
The short version
Paranoid Review uses account details and the content or actions you choose to submit so the service can provide login, profiles, reviews, comments, likes, and saved entries. It does not currently add analytics, advertising, tracking pixels, or a newsletter to the frontend.
01 — What the service uses
| Data | Why it is used | Visibility |
|---|---|---|
| Username and authentication password | To create an account and let you sign in through the existing authentication service. Passwords are not displayed publicly. | Username may be public; password is not. |
| Profile information you provide | To show your account profile, such as the username, avatar, or biography fields enabled by the site. | Shown according to the profile feature. |
| Reviews and comments | To publish and display the writing and discussions you choose to submit. | Public on the relevant index, review, or discussion. |
| Likes and saved entries | To remember your reactions and personal saved list. | Your saved list is account-specific; like counts may be public. |
| hCaptcha verification token | To check that login and registration submissions are made by a human before the existing auth request runs. | Used for verification; not intended as profile content. |
02 — Browser storage
The current frontends store session information in the browser so a signed-in session can be restored and ended when you log out. Paranoid Review stores its authentication token in local browser storage. Paranoid Yaps stores its local session identifier and uses Firebase Authentication. These values are used for session continuity, not for advertising or cross-site tracking.
03 — Services involved
Paranoid Yaps uses Firebase Authentication and Firebase Realtime Database for account and content data. Paranoid Review uses its existing authentication and review API. Both frontends use hCaptcha during the submit-triggered human-verification step. These providers may process requests under their own privacy terms; this page describes what the Paranoid frontends send for their features, not the providers’ separate policies.
04 — What is not currently added
The current frontend repositories do not add a newsletter, advertising scripts, analytics dashboard, tracking pixels, or fingerprinting code. Normal hosting, browser, API, Firebase, and hCaptcha operations can still involve technical request data needed to deliver and protect the services.
05 — Your requests
You may ask the site owner what account or submitted content is associated with you, request correction, or ask for deletion where appropriate. Use the contact method provided by the site owner. Requests may need enough information to identify the relevant account or content, but do not send your password.
06 — Updates
If the information used by the service changes materially, this page will be updated and the date above will change. Review this page periodically if you continue using Paranoid Review.