Privacy Policy

Anti Toxic People exists to help people who have been targeted by workplace toxicity. Some of you will share details of what happened to you. We take that seriously, and this page explains exactly what happens to your information.

What we collect

• Name: whatever you'd like us to call you. It does not need to be your legal name.
• Email address: used only to send you letters from Anti Toxic People.
• Your story (optional): anything you choose to share about what brought you here.
• Google sign-in (optional): if you choose to sign in with Google, your Google account's unique ID, your email address, and the name on your Google account. Nothing else from Google, and no password: Google handles that.

The quiz stays on your device

Name the Pattern, and every other checklist and tool on this site, runs entirely inside your browser. The behaviors you tick, the patterns you are shown, and the plan built around your answers are all worked out on your own device. Nothing you select is sent to us or to anyone else, nothing is written to a server, and nothing is saved between visits. You do not need an account or an email address to use any of it. We never see your answers, so there is nothing for us to store, share, or hand over, and nothing that could be linked to your name or email if you later choose to join. The one exception is In Your Words, described next.

Who sees it

Your name, email, and story are stored securely and are visible only to the small team running Anti Toxic People. We do not sell, rent, or share your information with third parties, advertisers, or data brokers. Your story is never published, quoted, or referenced (even anonymously) without your explicit, separate consent.

What we send you

Occasional letters: short, useful, and never noisy. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email, or by writing to us directly.

How long we keep it

We retain your information for as long as you remain subscribed. If you unsubscribe, we delete your story and personal details within 30 days, retaining only the minimum record needed to honor your opt-out. Saved conversations and accounts follow the periods in "Signing in and saved conversations".

Security

Submissions are protected against automated abuse (Cloudflare Turnstile) and stored in an access-controlled database. One tool on this site, In Your Words, sends what you type to OpenAI to be read; the section below explains exactly what that means. Nothing else on this site is processed by third-party AI tools.

Hosting and cookies

By default, this site sets only one cookie: the one that remembers your cookie choice. If you sign in, one more cookie, atp_session, keeps you signed in for 30 days. It is set only when you sign in, contains only a random session id, and is removed when you sign out. One more cookie,atp_signed_in, holds only the value 1, so the page header can show your name without asking our server on every page, and is removed at the same time as the session cookie. If you say yes to analytics (you'll be asked, and can change your answer anytime from "Cookie settings" in the footer), we use Google Analytics, which sets its own cookies (named _ga and _ga_*) and sends pseudonymous usage data to Google for processing, to see which guides are actually helping. This is never your name or email, only happens with your consent, and you're always free to withdraw it. This site carries no advertising and never will, so there is no ad cookie to consent to. Our hosting and content-delivery provider, Cloudflare, automatically processes standard technical information (like your IP address and request logs) to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse, the same way any web host does. This is not stored by us directly and is not used to track you across visits or sites.

In Your Words and OpenAI

In Your Words is the tool where you describe a situation in your own words and get back the Field Guide names for it. What is sent: the text you type, any follow-up questions you ask, and, with each follow-up, the earlier turns of that same conversation, so the reading has the context it needs. Nothing else. No name, no email, no IP address, no cookies, and no record of what page you came from.

Who it is sent to, and why: OpenAI, as a processor under their API terms, solely to match your words against the Field Guide and answer the questions you ask about it.

What we keep: nothing you type, unless you have signed in and chosen to save your conversations, which the next section describes. Whether or not you sign in, we keep daily counts: which Field Guide entries were matched, what kind of question was asked, how many turns a conversation ran, and the language it was in. These counts cannot be linked to you or to anything you wrote.

What OpenAI keeps: we ask OpenAI not to store the conversation. Their API terms allow abuse-monitoring logs to be kept for up to 30 days, and state that API data is not used to train their models. Signing in changes nothing about this. We do not send OpenAI your name, your email, your account, or any identifier, so a conversation from a signed-in reader looks, to OpenAI, exactly like one from an anonymous reader.

What never happens: nothing you type here is used to train any model, ours or anyone else's. If you are not signed in, nothing is stored between visits; leave the page, and the conversation is gone.

One piece of advice: leave real names out of what you write. You don't need them for the reading to work.

Signing in and saved conversations

You never need an account for anything on this site. Signing in with Google does one thing: it lets you save your In Your Words conversations and open them again later, from the list on the left of the reading screen.

What is saved. When you are signed in and saving is on, each conversation is saved to your account: what you wrote, the reading you were given, the Field Guide entries it matched, and your follow-up questions and their answers. A conversation you started before signing in is saved only if you say yes when asked.

What it is for, and what it is not for. Saved conversations exist so that you can read them again. That is the only purpose. We do not read them, analyze them, summarize them, count them, group them, or use them to improve this site, the Field Guide, or any model, and we do not share them with anyone. The daily counts described above are the only thing that informs how we improve the site, and they are collected the same way whether or not you are signed in. The only times we would ever access a saved conversation are to fulfil a request from you about your own data, or if the law requires it.

How they are protected. Saved conversations are encrypted before they are written to our database, with a key that only the running website holds. They cannot be read from the database itself, by us or by anyone who might obtain a copy of it.

What we hold about you. Your Google account's unique ID, your email address, the name on your Google account, when you agreed to saving, and your saved conversations. No password (Google handles sign-in), no profile picture, no IP address, and nothing about which pages you visit.

Your control. From the reading screen you can delete any conversation. From your account page you can turn saving off, download every saved conversation as a file, or delete your account and everything in it. Deletion is immediate. Our database provider keeps a point-in-time recovery copy for up to 30 days, after which deleted data is gone from there too.

How long. A saved conversation is deleted twelve months after you last added to it. An account with no sign-in for eighteen months is deleted, with everything in it.

Sensitive details. What people write here often includes things about their health or their private life. By turning saving on you are giving your explicit consent for us to store that, for the purpose above only. You can withdraw it at any time by turning saving off or deleting your conversations.

Google's role. Google confirms who you are and gives us the three details listed above. Google does not receive your conversations. How Google handles your sign-in is described in Google's own privacy policy.

Your rights

You may request a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it entirely, at any time, for any reason. If you have an account, you can download or delete everything yourself from your account page. For anything else, write to us; we answer within one month.

Contact

For any privacy question, reach out to onder@ondermutluer.com.