Privacy

• Your name, email, and optional location.
• The transcript of your interview with The Interviewer.
• Photos and video you upload, plus their captions.
• Your website and social handles if you choose to share them.
• Standard server logs (IP, user agent, timestamps) for security and debugging.

• Draft and publish your story on the publication.
• Email you the finished piece before and when it goes live.
• Feature you on our social channels and newsletter.
• Operate and improve the site.

We don't sell your personal information. We don't use it for advertising. We don't share it with third parties except as needed to run the publication (see below).

We use a small set of vendors to run the site and send email. They process your data only to help us operate:

• Supabase — database and file storage (your transcript, media, and metadata live here).
• Cloudflare — hosts the website.
• Anthropic — provides the AI model that powers The Interviewer and drafts your story.
• Resend (or equivalent) — sends email notifications.

You can ask us at any time to:

• See what data we hold about you.
• Correct anything that's wrong.
• Delete your story, media, and personal data. (Published content that's already been cached, archived, or reposted elsewhere may persist outside our control.)
• Unsubscribe from any email we send.

Reach us at hello@welderunderground.org and we'll take care of it within a reasonable time.

This site is not directed to children under 16. Please don't submit if you're under 16 without a parent or guardian's consent.

We may update this page. We'll update the date at the top when we do.

Questions about your data, or anything else: hello@welderunderground.org. See also our Terms for how we handle submissions.