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Privacy Notice

Last updated 14 May 2026

Hackflix is a curated archive of public security-conference talks. This notice explains the cookies we set and the data we store. We keep this to the minimum needed to run the site — we do not sell data or use advertising trackers.

Cookies and local storage

  • Session cookie (hackflix-session) — a strictly-necessary, signed, HttpOnly cookie. It keeps you logged in to your account and is required for the site to function. No consent banner is shown because the site sets no non-essential cookies of its own.
  • Theme preference (st-theme) — stored in your browser's local storage to remember your light/dark choice. It never leaves your device.

Information you provide

  • Accounts — if you register, we store your email address, your chosen username, and your password (only ever kept as a bcrypt hash, never in plain text). Your email is used to send an account-verification link.
  • Video reports — if you report a video, we store the reason you give, the time, and the IP address the report was submitted from. The IP address lets us handle abuse and prevent a single source from flooding reports.
  • Site issue reports and ideas — if you use the "Submit an issue/idea" page in the footer, we store the description you submit, the time, and the IP address it came from. The IP address is kept for the same reason — to correlate or block abuse if the form is misused.

Third-party services

Some pages load content from third parties, which may set their own cookies or receive your IP address:

  • YouTube — video pages embed the YouTube player. When a video loads, YouTube (Google) may set cookies and process your data under its own privacy policy.
  • Cloudflare — we use Cloudflare Turnstile to tell humans from bots on the search, report, and account forms, and Cloudflare's email service to send verification emails.
  • Content delivery networks — styling and fonts are loaded from the Tailwind CDN and Google Fonts.

Your choices and contact

You can browse without an account. If you have one, you can log out at any time, and you can ask us to access or delete your account data by emailing [email protected]. For questions about this notice, use the same address.

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