dekud is a social platform where content disputes are decided by randomly drawn juries of real users — not by moderators. this policy describes exactly what we collect, why, and the one thing that makes dekud different from every platform you have used: jury ballots become a permanent public record after a case closes.
what we collect
account data — your email address and a username. your password is stored only as a cryptographic hash (via better-auth); we never see or store it in readable form.
two-factor authentication — if you enable 2fa (required for jury service), we store your totp secret to verify your codes.
content you create — posts, comments, votes, and community memberships.
jury activity — summons sent to you, your response, your oath record, and your ballots. we also track jury-eligibility signals: days active, last activity date, and how many cases you served on per month.
reports and cases — when you report content, the case record (charge, timestamps, outcome) is stored.
session data — login session tokens that keep you signed in.
notifications — in-app notifications such as jury summons and verdict notices.
the permanent public jury record — read this before serving
while a case is deliberating, all ballots are sealed — nobody can see how anyone voted. the moment the case closes, every ballot is unsealed forever: your username, your vote (keep/remove), and your reasoning become part of the public court record, visible to anyone, permanently.
this is not a side effect — it is the core design of dekud. delayed transparency is what makes jury verdicts trustworthy. if you are not comfortable standing publicly behind a verdict, decline the summons. declining has no penalty.
what we never do
we never sell your data to anyone.
we run no advertising and no ad trackers.
we run no third-party analytics inside the app.
we never use your content to train ai models.
jurors are drawn by a verifiable random lottery — no human picks who judges your case.
how we use data
to operate the platform (accounts, posts, votes, notifications).
to run the court: determining jury eligibility, drawing jurors, enforcing the 5-cases-per-month limit, and publishing closed-case records.
to keep the platform safe: a safety pipeline screens content for illegal categories before anything reaches a jury.
where data lives
our servers are hosted by hetzner (germany) and our database by neon (managed postgresql). we use cloudflare to protect and deliver the site. this website loads fonts from google fonts, which may see your ip address when you visit.
retention and deletion
you may delete your account at any time; your profile, posts, and comments stop being publicly visible.
exception — the court record: ballots you cast on closed cases remain part of the permanent public jury record under your username, as described above. this record is the platform's archive of justice and is not erased.
session tokens expire automatically; notification records may be cleaned up over time.
your rights
you may request a copy of your data or ask questions about this policy at any time via hello@dekud.com. if you are in the eu/uk, you have the usual gdpr rights of access, correction, and erasure — subject to the court-record exception above, which we will explain in any response.
contact — one honest rule
contact us for technical problems only (bugs, crashes, account access). jury verdicts are final and cannot be changed by our team — that is the founding principle of dekud, and no email will override it.
changes
if we change this policy, we will update the date above and, for significant changes, send you an in-app notification. continued use after a change means you accept the updated policy.