Privacy

Last updated 20 October 2026

This page describes how Is My Idea Stupid? currently works. We keep it short because the product collects very little.

The ideas you submit

• When you click “Judge my idea”, the text you typed is sent to our server and forwarded to our AI provider, TypeSafe, which evaluates it and returns structured answers. Their own terms and privacy policy apply to that processing.
• Our application does not store submitted ideas (except a verdict you choose to share, see Sharing below), and does not write them to our logs or analytics.
• Please do not submit confidential information or personal data about anyone.

Analytics

We record a few anonymous events to understand whether the tool is used and shared: a tool page was opened, a verdict was completed, a share button was clicked, a share was completed, a shared verdict page was opened, or “Try another idea” was clicked. Each event contains only:

• the language of the page (English, Spanish or Portuguese),
• the verdict band and a rounded score bucket (for example “70–79% stupid”),
• for shares, which share option and method was used,
• if you arrived through a link with campaign tags (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_content), those tags.

Events never contain your idea, the verdict text or any account identifier. They are kept as log entries in our hosting provider's logging system for a limited time. We also keep daily totals of four of them (tool page opened, verdict completed, share completed, shared verdict page opened), counted by date, site, page language and campaign tags except utm_content, for 90 days. These totals are only numbers: they contain no identifier and cannot be linked to a person or a visit. The same events, without the campaign tags, also go to Google Analytics (next section), except “tool page opened”.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4, a service from Google, to understand how many people visit, which pages they view and where visits come from. When a page loads, it fetches Google's tag script from googletagmanager.com, and your browser sends usage data to Google Analytics, such as the page address (including any campaign tags in it), the referring page, your browser and device type, an approximate location that Google derives from your IP address, and the anonymous events described above (with the same band, score bucket and share fields). Google Analytics does not log or store IP addresses.

• We never send the idea you type, the verdict or the roast to Google.
• Advertising features are switched off: Google signals and ad personalization are disabled, and all advertising consent signals are set to “denied”.
• If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, analytics cookies are off by default: Google Analytics then receives only cookieless signals without a cookie identifier. Elsewhere, Google Analytics sets its first-party cookies (see below).
• Google processes this data under its own terms. You can read how Google uses information from sites that use its services, and you can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on or by blocking googletagmanager.com and google-analytics.com in your browser.

Hosting and request data

The site runs on Cloudflare. Like any website host, Cloudflare processes normal request metadata (such as IP address, browser type and time of request) to deliver and protect the site, and may retain it according to its own policies and our log settings. Your IP address is also used briefly to limit how many requests can be made in a short time.

Cookies and browser storage

• We set no cookies of our own, and there are no advertising cookies.
• Outside the EEA, UK and Switzerland, Google Analytics sets the first-party cookies _ga and _ga_ZCZMCS6H6J, which hold a random identifier and session information, last up to 2 years and are read only by Google Analytics on this site and its subdomains such as social.realcheckme.com.
• If you arrive through a tagged link, the campaign tags are kept in your browser's session storage so they stay attached while you move between pages. Session storage is cleared when you close the tab.
• The only third-party script is Google's tag for Google Analytics, loaded from googletagmanager.com. No third-party fonts.

Discord, Telegram, Bluesky and Threads

• If you use our Discord app or Telegram bot, the text you type after a command is sent to our server and our AI provider to produce the verdict, exactly like on this site, and is not stored or logged. Discord and Telegram also process your messages under their own privacy policies. We keep only counters (which check was used, the verdict band) and a one-way hashed account identifier for rate limits.
• If you mention our Bluesky account with a command (for example "idea: …"), or reply to one of our Bluesky or Threads posts that way, we read that public post and may answer it with a verdict and a link. We only look at replies and mentions addressed to us, never search other conversations. We never quote your text back, never store it, and keep only a one-way hash of the post and account so we never answer twice or too often. Red flag requests are never answered publicly.
• If you mention @RealCheckMeBot in a Telegram chat (guest mode), Telegram sends us that message and, if you replied to a message, the message you replied to. We use them only to make one verdict reply, never store or log them, and never see the rest of the chat. Red flag checks are never answered in a group; the bot offers a private chat instead.
• If you use our stream overlay, the text you type into the control page is sent to our judge only to make the verdict and is never stored or logged. The overlay keeps only the latest verdict card (not your text) for up to 30 minutes so it can show it.
• We may use anonymous counts of which checks people ask for to decide what kinds of example content to create. Nothing anyone wrote is ever republished.

Sharing

Nothing you type is stored unless you press “Share my verdict”. Pressing it creates a public page at a short link (realcheckme.com/r/…) that shows your idea, the verdict, the score, the roast and the reasons, so anyone with the link can read them. Before saving, we mask anything that looks like an email address or a phone number. The page stores only that snapshot and the time it was made: no IP address, no account, nothing else. It is not listed in search engines, and it is deleted automatically after 180 days. To have one removed sooner, email us the link.

What we don't do

• No user accounts or profiles.
• No history of your ideas.
• No sale of user data.

Changes

If the product changes, for example if advertising is added, this page will be updated before or at the same time, and the date above will change.

Contact

Questions about privacy or this page: contact@realcheckme.com.