Privacy Policy

Account Optional

Moniker works without an account for basic features. Optional Lotlsoft accounts unlock additional features like subscriptions, saved data, and personalized reports.

What We Store

When you use Moniker, we store:

• Account - Email address, user identifier, and email-verification state. Held by Lotl Auth, not Moniker. Used to sign you in and attach your work to an identity.Stored on our server. Kept until you delete it. Legal basis: contract (needed to run the service). Shared with: email provider.
• Project - Boards, candidate names, board notes, polls, segment invites, votes, vote comments, and feasibility lookups.Stored on our server. Kept until you delete it. Legal basis: contract (needed to run the service).
• Poll Responses - Anonymous pairwise votes and optional free-text comments tied to an invite token. Not linked to any account unless the voter signs in.Stored on our server. Kept until you delete it. Legal basis: consent (you opted in). You choose whether to provide this.
• Credits Ledger - Credit balance and transaction history for paid AI features. Retained for 7 years for payment record-keeping.Stored on our server. Kept: 7 years. Legal basis: contract (needed to run the service). Not individually deletable. Shared with: payment processor and AI provider.

Local Storage

Some data is stored locally in your browser and never sent to our servers:

• lotl_access_token - Short-lived access token issued by Lotl Auth after sign-in.
• moniker_theme - Remembered light/dark/system preference so the app does not flash the wrong palette on reload.

You can clear this data anytime through your browser settings.

Cookies

We do not use cookies for tracking. We use localStorage to save preferences and sessionStorage during the sign-in process.

Analytics

We use our own privacy-focused analytics (Lotl Observe) to collect minimal anonymous usage data:

• Page views - Which pages are visited (no personal data)
• Anonymous identifiers - A random visitor ID to count unique visitors (not linked to your identity)
• Error reports - Technical errors for debugging (no personal data)

We do not use third-party analytics services like Google Analytics.

Third Parties

We do not sell or share your data. The only external services we use are:

• Datamuse (linguistic lookups, seed word only)
• RDAP via rdap.org (domain availability, slug + TLD only)
• GitHub, npm, Bluesky, Reddit, iTunes Search (handle availability, candidate slug only)
• lotl-ai, our shared AI service (AI name generation and poll theme extraction, when you spend credits; prompts are not used for training)
• Stripe via lotl-pay (credit-pack payment processing; we never touch your card details)

Your Rights

You can:

• Access your data (view within the app or export from account settings)
• Correct your data (update profile in account settings)
• Delete your data (from within the app)
• Withdraw consent (sign out and stop using the service)

Contact

Questions about privacy? Visit the Lotlsoft Privacy Policy to send us a message.

Last updated: April 2026

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