INTERNETCEMETERY ← Cemetery

YOUR GHOST LEAVES SMALL FOOTPRINTS

Privacy Policy

What the cemetery remembers, why it remembers it, and how to ask it to forget.

Last updated: September 1, 2026

1. Who controls your data

Kevin Zana, an individual established in France, is the data controller for InternetCemetery. Privacy requests: [email protected].

2. Data we handle

  • Anonymous visitor ID: a random cemetery_cid stored in a first-party cookie and localStorage.
  • Preferences: locale and optional public username stored locally in your browser.
  • Activity: graves visited, offerings left, and your private pilgrimage history.
  • Grave content: submitted name, dates, cause, epitaph, district, monument, and author username.
  • Technical data: IP address, browser information, request logs, and security events when the site is served from a backend.
  • Purchase data: order reference, product, payment status, country, and contact details returned by Lemon Squeezy when paid checkout is enabled. We do not receive full card details.

3. Why and on what basis

  • Provide the cemetery, remember preferences, and fulfil purchases: performance of a contract or steps you request before a contract.
  • Publish graves and social previews: performance of the service and the licence granted in our Terms.
  • Moderate abuse, secure the service, and understand basic reliability: our legitimate interests.
  • Keep invoices and transaction records: legal obligations.
  • Optional analytics or marketing, if introduced: consent where required.

4. Local storage and cookies

The current site uses first-party storage only: cemetery_cid identifies your ghost, cemetery_pseudo remembers the optional username, and localStorage keeps the locale, offerings, pilgrimages, and locally created graves.

These are used for functionality, not cross-site advertising. Clearing site data resets the local ghost and its private history. If non-essential analytics are added later, this policy and any required consent controls will be updated first.

5. Public content

Published grave content, its address, author username, and aggregate offering counts are public and may be indexed or shared. Do not put private information in an epitaph. Your visitor ID and private pilgrimage history are not displayed publicly.

6. Processors and transfers

We may use hosting, database, email, security, and image-generation providers to operate the service. When checkout is enabled, Lemon Squeezy processes transactions as merchant of record under its own privacy notice and returns limited order information to us.

Some providers may process data outside the European Economic Area. Where required, transfers rely on an adequacy decision, Standard Contractual Clauses, or another lawful safeguard. The final provider list and hosting details will be published before the paid service launches.

7. Retention and security

Published graves are kept while the service operates or until they are lawfully removed. Pending or rejected submissions are deleted or anonymised after a reasonable moderation period. Purchase and accounting records are retained for the periods required by law. Technical logs are kept only as long as needed for security and reliability.

We use reasonable technical and organisational safeguards. No online graveyard, however tastefully pixelated, can promise absolute security.

8. Your rights

Depending on applicable law, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, or objection, and withdraw consent where processing relies on it. You may also request moderation or removal of personal data appearing in a grave.

Email [email protected]. We may need information that reasonably proves which grave or order is yours. You may lodge a complaint with the CNIL in France or your local data-protection authority.

9. Changes

We may update this policy as the backend, payments, or providers become real. The date above will change, and material changes will be highlighted where appropriate.