privacy policy

Short version: the text you paste is sent to an AI to be scored and is not kept afterwards. There are no accounts and no tracking beyond ads, which only run if you allow them.

Who runs this site

Joan Marie Arroyo Alcón (jmaa.tv), Spain, is the data controller for this site. Questions, or any request about your data: jmaa@jmaa.tv.

The text you submit

What you type into the specimen box, plus the platform you pick, is sent to this site's server and on to Anthropic, which runs the model that produces the score and the rewrites. It is used to generate that response and nothing else. This site does not store it, log it, or keep a copy after the response is returned. Anthropic handles it under its own privacy policy and API terms.

Because it leaves your device, please don't paste anything you'd be unhappy for a third party to process: no passwords, no ID numbers, no one else's private information.

Your name and face on public tickers

If you're signed in, your nickname and profile picture appear next to your scores — on the home page ticker, on the cringe battle reveal, and next to the worst post of a cringe royale round. Your drafts are never shown on the home page ticker; only the score is, with your name beside it.

This is on by default for accounts, and there's a switch in your account page to turn it off. Turn it off and your scores still appear and still count, just anonymously like everyone else's. If you're not signed in, nothing changes: your screenings were anonymous before and they stay anonymous.

What gets stored alongside a ticker entry is a copy of your nickname, your picture and whether you have Cringe+ at the moment you screened — not a link back to your account. Those entries are deleted after 12 hours like everything else in the ticker. Turning the switch off stops your name appearing on new entries; ones already on the ticker keep it until they expire.

The live counters

The home page shows how many people are in a cringe royale at that moment. That count is a number of anonymous sessions and nothing else — no identity, no location, nothing kept beyond about a minute after someone stops playing.

It also shows a running list of scores from recent screenings. When a screening finishes, three things are recorded: the number it scored, which platform the draft was headed for, and the time. The text you wrote is never sent to that store and there is no field for it. Nothing identifies you — no IP address, no session, no account — so an entry cannot be traced back to a person or joined up with any other entry. Records are deleted after 12 hours, and only the most recent 40 are kept. Legal basis: legitimate interest in showing that the site is in use.

Cringe battles

A battle is different from a solo screening in one way that matters: your draft is stored, because the other player has to be shown it when the round ends. Each round keeps the text you wrote, its score, and a timestamp, plus two random tokens that identify the seats in that match. No name, no email, no account — the invite link is the only credential. Everything belonging to a match is deleted 12 hours after it starts. Legal basis: performing the game you asked for.

Your draft is never sent to the other player before the round's clock runs out. That's enforced on the server, not in the browser.

Cringe royale

A royale works like a battle, with one difference worth knowing before you play: the cringiest post of each round is shown to everyone still in the game once that round closes. That is the game. Don't write anything in a royale you wouldn't want up to 99 strangers reading.

Each round stores what you wrote, its score and a timestamp, against a random player id. No name, no email, no account — buying an entry gives you a key, and the key is only ever seen as a one-way hash. Everything belonging to a game is deleted 12 hours after it starts. During a round nothing you write is visible to anyone else; that's enforced on the server. Legal basis: performing the game you asked for.

Sharing a result

Screenings are not stored — with one exception, and it only happens if you ask for it. If you press one of the social share buttons (X, Bluesky, Facebook), a shareable page is created at a link like amicringe.lol/r/… so the post shows your actual score instead of a generic image.

Creating that page stores the score, the diagnosis, the platform you picked, and the same short excerpt that already appears on the card — never your full draft. Anyone with the link can see it, which is the point of a shareable link. It expires after 90 days.

Downloading the card, using your phone's share sheet, or the Instagram buttons store nothing: those hand you an image and keep no copy.

Your browser keeps a delete key for every result you share, so you can take one down. Clearing your browser data loses those keys — if that happens and you want something removed, write to the address at the bottom of this page.

Reports and moderation

Anyone can report a profile for an offensive nickname or avatar. A report records which account was reported, the reason, any note written, and either the reporter's account id or a one-way hash of their IP address — the hash exists to stop one person filing the same report repeatedly, and can't be turned back into an address.

Site admins can suspend an account. A suspension records the reason, which admin set it, and when. Admins can also block an IP address for a period; those are stored as a one-way hash plus a coarse hint like 81.43.x.x, never the full address, and they expire automatically unless deliberately made permanent.

If your account is suspended you'll be told, along with the reason recorded and when it expires. To dispute it, write to the address at the bottom of this page.

Server logs

The site is hosted on Netlify, which keeps standard request logs — IP address, browser and device type, the page requested, and a timestamp — to run the service and defend against abuse. Legal basis: legitimate interest in keeping the site up and unabused. These are Netlify's logs and follow their retention schedule.

Storage on your device

This site stores a small number of things in your browser, and every one of them is there to make a feature you asked for work:

• a sign-in cookie, if you have an account — it's HttpOnly, so scripts on the page can't read it;
• your licence key, if you bought a rewrite, so you don't have to paste it again;
• which game you're in, so refreshing doesn't lose your place;
• your sound on/off choice, and an anonymous id used only to give you one free royale a week.

All of it is strictly necessary for something you chose to do, which is why there is no cookie banner on this site. Clearing your browser data removes all of it.

If you add the site to your home screen, a service worker caches the page files so it opens offline. That's a copy of the site itself, not information about you.

Advertising

There are no ads on this site, and no advertising or analytics trackers of any kind. Nothing here profiles you, follows you between sites, or is sold to anyone. The site is paid for by the optional things you can buy — rewrites, battle invites, royale entries, and Cringe+ — which is the whole reason it can work this way.

Payments

The optional rewrite is sold through Gumroad, which is the merchant of record. The payment happens entirely on Gumroad's site — this site never sees or handles your card details, your name, or your email address. Gumroad processes your data under its own privacy policy and sends you a receipt containing a licence key.

That licence key is the only thing this site ever sees. It's checked against Gumroad each time you unlock a rewrite, to confirm it's real and hasn't been refunded, and it's stored in your browser so you don't have to paste it again. The key itself is never stored on this site's servers — only a one-way hash of it, used to count how many times it has been redeemed. The key is not linked to your identity here and nothing about your purchase is stored on this site's servers. Legal basis: performing the transaction you asked for. Clearing your browser data removes the stored key; you can also remove it with the "forget my key" link next to the field.

What is not here

No accounts, no sign-up, no newsletter, no analytics product, no social media pixels, no profiles built about you, and nothing sold to anyone.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask for access to your personal data, correction, erasure, restriction, portability, or object to processing, and you can withdraw consent at any time. Email the address above. Given how little is retained here, in most cases there is simply nothing on file to hand over. You also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority — in Spain, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos.

Children

This site isn't intended for children under 16 and shouldn't be used by them.

A note on the output

Everything the site says back to you is generated by an AI model. It is a joke, not advice — about your posting, your writing, your relationships, your career, or anything else.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date below changes with it.

Last updated 9 September 2026