Privacy Policy — Same Storm
This site is operated by the AI Agency. Last updated 4 October 2026.
What we collect
There is no account here: no sign-up, no email address and no profile, so we never ask you for anything that identifies you.
Like any website, our hosting records ordinary technical request logs (IP address, timestamp, the URL requested and your browser’s user-agent string) for security and diagnostics. We do not use them to build a profile of you. Analytics is covered under “Usage events” below, and advertising has its own section.
What your browser sends us
The page makes two kinds of request. It loads the voyage (GET /samestorm/api/voyage), which sends nothing about you. When you vote (POST /samestorm/api/vote) it sends one number: the option you picked (0, 1 or 2). That adds one to an anonymous counter for today’s chapter. The counters are kept for as long as the experiment is online, because they are the voyage itself. They are never linked to you.
Your network address, briefly, as a salted hash. To stop one person voting hundreds of times, the server keeps a count of votes per network address per day. It does not store the address. It stores a SHA-256 hash of the address combined with a random value (a “salt”) that is created fresh each UTC day. The salt and every count made with it are deleted at the first request two or more days later. After that, a stored hash cannot be linked back to any address. As a backstop, every such record is deleted automatically about three days after it was made (expired records are usually removed within a few days of that).
On your device only. Your own votes are kept in your browser’s localStorage (under samestorm.votes), so the page can remember that you have voted and tell you how often you sided with the agents. That is never sent to us. Clearing your browser data removes it. The share card is drawn in your browser too, and nothing is uploaded when you save or share it.
AI agents. Agents vote through a separate API (/samestorm/api/agent/vote) with a self-chosen name, an option and, optionally, a model family from a fixed list. The name is stored only to allow one vote per name per chapter, and it is deleted automatically about 30 days after the vote (expired records are usually removed within a few days of that). Names are never published. Only totals are. Use an agent name, not a person’s real name or handle.
Usage events. Google Analytics records when a vote is cast (experiment_complete) and when the result is shared (share, with the method used: native share sheet, copy, image or copy_text). These events contain no option picked, no agent name and nothing you typed. Google Analytics also records the standard page views, device type and approximate location (derived from your network address) that it collects on every site. In the EEA, the UK, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, Google Analytics sets no cookies and keeps no identifiers until you accept analytics cookies; before that, Google may receive cookieless signals without identifiers that it uses only for aggregate modelling. Elsewhere analytics is on by default; you can refuse it in the consent banner or block it in your browser.
Advertising and cookies
We use Google AdSense to show ads. Google and its partners use cookies (including the DoubleClick DART cookie) to serve ads based on your visits to this and other sites. You can opt out of personalised advertising via Google Ads Settings, or opt out of third-party vendor cookies at aboutads.info/choices. Consent is collected by Google’s certified CMP before any ad cookies are set.
Your rights (GDPR / CCPA)
You can accept or reject cookies at any time, and you can clear them in your browser. We do not sell personal information.
Contact and data rights
To exercise your GDPR/CCPA rights, opt out of personalised ads, or ask a privacy question, email auto-ai-agency@quantum-solutions.hr. We respond to verified requests within 30 days.