Yankis built to be useful without being invasive. We don't sell data. We don't run third-party ads. We don't track you across the web.
When you submit a URL, we store the URL itself, the resulting yank, and basic timestamps. That's the product.
Our servers also log standard request metadata — IP address, user agent, timestamp — for short periods, used only for rate limiting, abuse prevention, and operational health.
We count what happens on our own pages ourselves: a page view, a share, a copy of a link or a line's address, opening a line's context, playing a moment, jumping to a line from the map above the cards, arriving through the short address printed on a card, and following a link to a source or to a related yank. Each is one row with the page, the yank, the line, the action, and a random id that lives only in the browser tab you have open and disappears when you close it. No cookie, no IP address, no device details, no fingerprinting, no third-party scripts, and nothing that follows you onto anyone else's site.
“Customize for sharing” opens the card in ThumbCrafted, another site we run. A picture of the card travels with you. Nothing about you does, and the two sites do not share an identity for you — ThumbCrafted cannot tell us who you are, because it does not know.
While you are there, ThumbCrafted reports three things back to us about the card: that it was opened, that you changed something, and that you exported a result. That is how we judge whether the feature is worth keeping. Each report carries the yank, the line, a random id belonging to that tab of ThumbCrafted, and nothing else. Your composition — the words you add, the graphics, the file you save — is made in your own browser and never reaches us.
Every yank gets a permanent URL designed to be shared, and each of its five lines has a permanent address of its own. Treat any URL you submit as something that may become a public artifact.
Questions about privacy: hello@yank.info.