Privacy notice
This notice tells you what personal data PinasDex collects, why we collect it, and what you can do about it. It follows the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10173, or RA 10173). Last updated 13 November 2026.
Who is responsible
PinasDex is the controller of your personal data. Write to us on the contact page.
What we collect
- Your account: your username, your email address and your password. We keep the password only as a one-way hash, so nobody at PinasDex can read it. If you add a profile photo or an "about" line, we keep those too.
- Google sign-in: if you sign in with Google, Google sends us your email address and an account ID. We never see your Google password.
- What you post: topics, replies, listings, reviews, photos, trip plans, messages to other members, and job applications with the resume you attach.
- Games: your coin balance, your game results and your place on the leaderboard.
- The contact form: your name, your email address and your message.
- Chapter alerts: if you ask us to tell you when a komiks chapter is out, your email address and that chapter.
- Google Analytics: the pages you open, how long you stay, your type of device and browser, and your approximate location (country or city). Google collects this with cookies. We do not see who you are.
- Server data: your IP address, which we use for a short time to stop spam and too many requests.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file that your browser keeps for a site. We use these:
- Sign-in and security: a session cookie keeps you signed in, and a CSRF cookie protects the forms.
- Invites: when you open a member's invite link, a cookie remembers who invited you for 30 days.
- Games: cookies keep a guest player's coins and the state of today's Trivia and Crossword.
- Small choices: the last tab you picked on Movies and Series. Your light or dark choice stays in your browser only.
- Google Analytics: cookies that count visits.
You can block or delete cookies in your browser. If you block the sign-in cookie, you cannot sign in.
Why we use it
- To run your account, show what you post, and keep your coins and game results.
- To send the emails you ask for, such as a password reset or a reply to your message.
- To send a weekly email about the places you follow, only in a week with something new. Unfollow the places to stop it.
- To stop spam, fake accounts and abuse, and to act on reports.
- To learn which pages people use, so we can make the site better.
We use your data because you gave it to us to use the site, because you agreed (for example, when you sign in with Google), or because we must keep the site safe. We do not sell your personal data.
Who else gets it
- Google: for Google sign-in and Google Analytics.
- Resend: the service that sends our emails.
- DigitalOcean: the company that hosts our server, in Singapore.
- Other members: they see your username, your profile and what you post. They do not see your email address.
We give data to the police or a court only when the law tells us to.
How long we keep it
- We keep your account data while your account is open.
- You can delete your account in Settings. Your account data, coins and game results go with it. Your topics and replies in Talk stay, but without your name, so the conversations still make sense.
- We keep contact form messages in our mailbox as long as we need them to answer you.
- We keep a chapter alert until we send it, then we delete it.
- Google keeps Analytics data for the time set in our Analytics account, at most 14 months.
Your rights
Under RA 10173, you have the right to:
- know what data we have about you and how we use it,
- get a copy of your data,
- correct data that is wrong,
- object to how we use it, or ask us to stop,
- ask us to delete or block your data,
- get your data in a format that another service can use, and
- claim damages if wrong use of your data harmed you.
To use a right, write to us on the contact page or at [email protected]. If you think we did not respect your rights, you can complain to the National Privacy Commission.
How we protect it
The site uses HTTPS. Passwords are hashed. Resumes are private files that only the applicant, the employer and our staff can open. Only our staff can see the admin pages.