Privacy
Last updated: 1 November 2026
You can read every song on Padalgal without an account, and the site itself sets no cookies while you read. This page explains the little we do collect, why, who else sees it and how long we keep it.
While you read
We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are read, from which kinds of device and roughly which country. It runs in your browser and sets Google’s own cookies there. Your theme, language and typing choices are saved only in your browser’s local storage and are never sent to us.
If you create an account
We keep your email address, a display name if you set one, your password in scrambled (hashed) form, your preferred language and whether you have confirmed your email. While you are signed in, a session cookie keeps you signed in; the session record holds your network address and browser name until it ends.
What you contribute
We keep the lyrics, corrections and reports you send, any note you add, when you sent them, the version of the contributor terms you accepted and the editors’ decisions. Before an editor reads a contribution, its text is checked by an automated review service run by Anthropic. Your display name appears on a song page only if you chose that when sending it.
If you write to us
Messages sent through the contact form, with the name and email address you give, are read only by our editors. A conversation is closed 30 days after our last reply and deleted a year later. The network address a message was sent from is deleted after 30 days, and spam after 30 days.
Who else handles it
Our hosting provider stores the site and its data, an email service delivers our emails, Google provides the visit statistics and Anthropic runs the automated review. Each handles only what its job needs. We do not sell your information or use it for advertising.
Your choices
You can block Google Analytics with your browser’s privacy settings or an extension; the site works the same. You can change your display name, and delete your account at any time from your account page: anything waiting for review is withdrawn, and lyrics already published stay without your name. To get a copy of what we hold about you, or to have your contact messages deleted, write to us.
Changes
If we change how we handle information, we will update this page and the date above.