What Takemark knows about you

Short version: if you never sign in, nothing. If you sign in, your name, your email address and your Google picture, so the site can show you your own record.

Reading costs you nothing

The feed, the record and every published mark are open pages. No account, no cookie, no tracking pixel, no analytics script, no advertising network. Nothing on this site follows you to another one.

Signing in with Google

When you sign in, Google tells Takemark three things: your name, your email address and the picture on your Google account. Nothing else. Takemark never sees your Google password, and it cannot read your mail, your files or your contacts.

Your email address is how the site knows one returning person from another.
Your name and picture appear only to you, in the corner of the screen, so you can tell you are signed in.
The session lives in one cookie that lasts a week. It is signed so it cannot be forged, and marked HttpOnly so no page script can read it. It holds no password and no token.

Signing out deletes that cookie immediately.

Where it is kept

In a Supabase database in Tokyo, in a table only the server can reach. The table holds the three things above, when you first signed in, and when you were last seen. That last field exists so an abandoned account can be found and removed, not to build a picture of your habits.

What is never done with it

It is never sold, rented or shared with anyone.
It is never used to email you. There is no mailing list.
It is never joined up with anything else about you.
No profile of a reader is built, because none is wanted.

What is public, and permanently so

A mark is a dated public record: the claim, the day it was made, the arguments each way, and what would settle it. That is the entire point of the product, and it is the one thing here designed not to be quietly deleted. Wording can be corrected three times and every correction stays visible.

Your profile is the opposite. It carries positions that were never published, so it sits behind sign-in and is marked so search engines leave it alone.

Evidence search. When an author asks Takemark to find evidence, the claim they typed is sent to Anthropic's Claude to be searched for on the open web. The claim goes; nothing about you goes with it. Results come back as links the author ticks by hand.

Getting rid of it

Write to Waqas Shota Ali and your account row is deleted, with the marks you published either removed or left standing under your name, whichever you ask for. There is no form to fill in and no waiting period.

Children

Takemark is not built for anyone under 16 and asks nobody for an age. If a child's account turns up it is deleted.

When this changes

This page is part of the code, not a document filed somewhere else. It changes in the same commit as the behaviour it describes, and the site is in beta, so it will change.

Last changed 9 September 2026 · Takemark is in beta