Privacy

Last updated November 12, 2026

• No accounts. We never ask who you are.
• Polls are private by link. We never list or promote them.
• Photos are deleted 15 days after the poll closes.
• If you give an email address, it is deleted as soon as the result email is sent, unless the law requires us to keep it.
• No ads, no tracking cookies, and we never sell data.
• We do not collect biometric data and do not analyze faces in photos.

Who runs this site

No, You Choose! (noyouchoose.com) is run by Omar Abhari. Questions and requests: hello@noyouchoose.com.

What we keep, and for how long

• Polls. The question, option text, links, settings, vote counts, the outcome and the times. Kept for aggregate statistics (see below) unless the poll is deleted.
• Photos. Stored only to show them in the poll, and deleted 15 days after it closes. Your browser shrinks and re-saves each photo before upload, which removes location and camera details. Photos belong to you. We never show them anywhere but the poll, and never use them in statistics or trends. We do not collect biometric data and do not analyze faces in photos.
• Alt text. Turned off for now. If we turn it on, an AI model running on Cloudflare will write a short description of each new photo for screen readers. The photo would never leave Cloudflare for this. The description is designed to describe objects, not people, and would be kept with the option text after the photo is deleted. We will update this page before turning it on.
• Link previews. When you add a link, our server visits the page once to get its title and picture, and keeps its own small copy of the picture with the poll's photos (deleted at the same time). Voters' browsers never contact the linked site for the preview, so that site never sees their IP address. Page titles are cached for up to 7 days.
• Votes. Each vote is kept as an anonymous row: which option, and when. To stop double votes, your browser gets a random ID for that one poll. We store only a keyed hash of it, inside that poll, and delete it 15 days after the poll closes.
• Names. If the person who made the poll requires names, the name you enter is shown only to them, next to your pick. Names are deleted 15 days after the poll closes.
• Email address. Optional. Used once, to send you the result when the poll closes. If sending fails we try 3 times over 30 minutes. Email addresses are deleted after the result is sent, unless the law requires us to keep them, for example when content is reported to NCMEC (see Child safety below). They are never used for anything else.
• IP addresses. We never store your IP address as it is. Where we need one, we keep a keyed hash, a one-way scramble that cannot be turned back into the address:
  • on each poll, for the person who made it, so we can block someone who abuses the site. Deleted 15 days after the poll closes;
  • in rate limit counters, which expire after 2 days;
  • on a report, deleted as soon as we resolve the report;
  • on the block list, for as long as a block lasts.
• Reports. The reason, any note, and the poll's question at the time. While a report is open, nothing about the poll is deleted: not by the 15-day cleanup, and not by whoever made it. Once we resolve the report, the poll's 15 days count from when it closed or from our decision, whichever is later. Kept for 1 year after we resolve the report.
• Counters. How many times a poll's share, nudge and "Make your own poll" buttons are tapped. Numbers only, nothing about who tapped.

When a poll ends

A closed poll's result stays up for 15 days. Then the poll page retires, and its photos, names, voter IDs and owner link are deleted. What stays is anonymous: the question, option text, links, alt text, counts and outcome.

Whoever made a poll can delete it at any time with the owner link, except while a report about it is open. That removes everything about it at once, including the anonymous data. We delete or take down polls that break the acceptable use policy.

Child safety

If we find or are told about child sexual abuse material in a poll, we hide the poll at once and report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), as US federal law requires. The law also requires us to preserve it. We move the photos, and copy the records about the poll (its details, the keyed hash of its creator's IP address, the email address its creator gave for the result, if any, and the reports), into locked storage that cannot be viewed through the site. We keep them for at least 1 year, and nothing deletes them automatically, including the 15-day cleanup and the owner link.

Aggregate statistics

We use the anonymous poll data to learn things like "this restaurant wins half the polls it appears in", and we may publish trends like that on this site. Trends are never tied to a person or to a single poll, and never use photos, names or email addresses.

Cookies and storage on your device

• v: the random voter ID for one poll, so you cannot vote twice and you see your own pick. Sent only to that poll's pages. It expires when the poll retires.
• o: set when you make a poll, so the poll page can point you back to your owner view. Sent only to that poll's pages. It expires when the poll retires.
• Local storage keeps your pick for each poll you voted in, as a backup to the cookie. Session storage keeps a draft of the poll you are writing until you make it or close the tab.

There are no advertising or tracking cookies.

Services we use

The whole site runs on Cloudflare: hosting, the database, photo storage, the alt text model and sending email. Cloudflare handles that data for us under its privacy policy.

• Bot checks. Making a poll and uploading photos are checked by Cloudflare Turnstile, which looks at technical signals from your browser to tell people from bots. See Cloudflare's Turnstile Privacy Addendum.
• Visit counts. We count page visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics. It uses no cookies or local storage and does not follow you across sites.
• Email. Result emails are sent with Cloudflare Email Service.
• Safety scanning. Photos are checked by Cloudflare's CSAM Scanning Tool against known child sexual abuse material. Matches are blocked and reported as the law requires (see Child safety above).
• Ko-fi. "Buy us a coffee" takes you to Ko-fi, which has its own privacy policy. We send them nothing about you.

When you paste a poll link into a chat app, the app fetches a preview card with the question and option text (never photos) and may keep its own copy. That copy is outside our control.

Your choices

There are no accounts, so we cannot look up which polls are yours. Use your owner link to delete a poll. For any other request, email hello@noyouchoose.com with the poll link. Because we do not know who you are, we can usually only find data you can point us to.

This site is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If this policy changes, we update the date at the top. Big changes are also noted here.