Privacy

Short version: bigpaper keeps the words on the page, not who wrote them. There are no accounts, no cookies and no ads.

What's public

Everything you type on bigpaper is public. Anyone who visits can read it, and it may stay on the page for a long time. Please don't write anything personal: no real names, addresses, phone numbers or anything you wouldn't put on a public noticeboard.

What we store

• The page itself: the text, its formatting, and when each bit was written.
• While your tab is open you get a random animal name and colour so others can see your cursor. They aren't saved and are gone when you close the tab.

Limits and your IP address

To stop one person wiping everyone else's work, the server rate-limits writing and erasing. It does this with a one-way hash of your IP address, mixed with a secret that changes every day, so it can't be turned back into your address and can't link your visits across days. The hash is only held in the server's memory while the page is busy and is never written to disk. Your IP address itself isn't stored.

Moderation

Links and a list of slurs and threats are blocked automatically. We can remove text from the page or roll it back if it gets vandalised.

Analytics and third parties

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page visits. It doesn't use cookies or track you across sites. bigpaper runs on Cloudflare, which processes requests to serve it. Nothing is sold or shared with anyone else.