Privacy — last updated 2026-05-06
How Storgy handles your data
Storgy doesn’t have user accounts, doesn’t collect email addresses, and doesn’t run advertising. The only personal data the site touches is what Google Analytics records on every page and what gets stored when you submit a poem to the analyzer. The sections below cover both, in plain terms.
Analytics — Google Analytics 4
Storgy runs Google Analytics 4 (GA4). GA4 sets cookies, records the pages you view, and reports an IP-derived approximate location to us in aggregate. Google also processes your IP address as a transit-only signal — they truncate it before it reaches our reports. We use this only to see which pages people read and where readers come from; we don’t sell or share this data.
You can opt out by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, by blocking analytics cookies in your browser, or by using any standard tracker-blocking extension. Storgy works fine without GA4.
The Poem Analyzer — what we store
When you submit a poem to the Poem Analyzer, we store four things in our database:
- The poem text you pasted (plus the title and author you optionally provided), so the analysis lives at a permanent shareable URL.
- The Claude-generated analysis, so we don’t pay to regenerate it every time the URL is opened.
- A salted SHA-256 hash of your IP address, kept only for rate-limiting. We never store your raw IP, and the salt means the hash can’t be reversed against a precomputed table.
- A short ID (the part in the URL after
/tools/poem-analyzer/) so the result is reachable.
We don’t store names, emails, or any account-style identifier. Submissions are public — anyone with the URL can see them — so don’t paste anything into the analyzer that you wouldn’t want public.
Rate limits
The Poem Analyzer enforces three limits, all keyed off the salted IP hash described above: a per-IP daily cap of two analyses, a burst limit of two per five minutes, and a global daily cap to protect the site from runaway costs. The IP hash is held in our cache for the rate-limit window only.
Third parties that see your data
Two external services receive the poem text you submit:
- Anthropic — runs Claude, the model that produces the analysis. Their privacy policy applies. Anthropic’s API terms state they don’t train on inputs from API customers by default.
- OpenAI — runs the second-pass model that rewrites stiff AI phrasing. Their privacy policy applies. OpenAI’s API terms state the same — no training on API inputs by default.
Both services receive only the analysis payload (or the original poem) — never your IP, your hash, or any other metadata.
Cookies
The only cookies Storgy sets are the ones GA4 uses (typically
_ga, _ga_*). No marketing or advertising cookies. No tracking pixels from social networks. No login session cookies, because there are no accounts.Retention and deletion
Submissions to the analyzer are kept indefinitely so the permalinks keep working. If you want a specific submission deleted, email nikola@gulevski.com with the URL — we’ll remove it. GA4 data is retained per Google’s defaults; you can request its deletion at the same address.
Contact
For any privacy or data-protection question — including GDPR access requests from EU readers — email nikola@gulevski.com. The site is operated by Nikola Gulevski.