Privacy
The Savrok is one person's music, radio, stories and software. It has no advertising, no analytics, no tracking scripts and nothing from another company that watches what you do. This page says everything the site keeps, as plainly as we can.
The short version
- You do not need an account to listen, read, play or color anything.
- Your internet address is turned into a scrambled code before it is stored for almost every feature, and that code cannot be turned back into your address without the site's secret key.
- Most of what the site remembers about you — your progress, your colors, where you stopped a story — is kept in your own browser, not on our server, and you can clear it yourself.
- We never sell, rent or share what we keep. Nobody else's code runs on these pages.
What the server keeps, and for how long
| When you… | We keep | For |
|---|---|---|
| visit any page | the server's log line: your address, the page, the time and your browser's name | 90 days, then deleted |
| do almost anything (to stop floods and abuse) | a scrambled code of your address, the kind of action and the time | 2 days |
| sign the guestbook | the name you give, your note, a scrambled code of your address, your browser's name, the time | until the note is removed |
| join the mailing list | your email address, when and where you joined, a scrambled code of your address | until you unsubscribe; after that the address is kept marked "do not mail", so it is never mailed again |
| like a song or a page, or request a song on the radio | the song or page, a scrambled code of your address, the time | kept with the song's numbers |
| listen to the radio | a random code your browser makes up, held in memory to count listeners | 90 seconds after you stop; never written down |
| carve a line on the Gate (the Scratchings) | your line and your actual address | until the line is removed; the address is kept so abuse can be banned |
| enter the Gate's hall of the few, or a high score | the initials you choose, the score or count, and for the hall your actual address | until removed |
| type at the Gate | words nobody has typed before, with how often, and nothing about who typed them | until the list is cleared |
| are an artist on the station | your name, your password (stored only as a one-way hash), your authenticator's secret, your songs and their words, the terms version you accepted, and when you last signed in | until your account is removed |
The database is copied every night and the copies are kept for 14 days; uploaded songs and pictures are copied weekly and kept for 28 days. So something deleted from the site is gone from the backups within a month.
Cookies
The site sets a cookie only when you do something that needs one, and every cookie is the site's own, is unreadable by scripts, and is sent only over a secure connection.
| Cookie | What it is for | Lasts |
|---|---|---|
savrok_gate | you were given a key to come in early; it remembers that you used it | 180 days |
savrok_artist | you are signed in as an artist | 12 hours, or until you sign out |
savrok_session | the site's owner is signed in | 12 hours, or until sign-out |
All three are strictly necessary for the thing you asked to do, which is why the site does not show a cookie banner. If that ever changes, the banner comes first.
What your browser keeps
These live in your browser's storage, on your device, and are never sent to us. Clearing your browser's site data for https://thesavrok.com removes all of them.
savrok.tallyandradio_liked:…— Your Record: what you have found, heard and liked, so your progress is yours and needs no account.savrok.gate.mem— the Gate's memory of your visits, trophies and settings.theme,volume,savrok.decorations— your light or dark choice, the player's volume and whether you turned the seasonal decorations off.savrok.listener— the random code the radio counts listeners by.savrok.book.…,savrok.candy.…,savrok.album.…— where you stopped a story, the picture you are coloring, the carnival's ticket and trail, and similar.
Other companies
- Hosting. The site runs on a server we rent from Hetzner, in Finland. They hold the machine, not our data's meaning; their own privacy terms cover the machine.
- Videos. A page with a video embeds it from YouTube's no-cookie address. YouTube sees your visit only if you press play.
- Links out. Discord, Etsy and Amazon are links, nothing more. Nothing of theirs loads until you follow one.
- Mail. When we send to the mailing list, it will go through an email service, which will hold the list to send it. This page will name the service when there is one.
Children
Some pages are made for families, like the coloring book's carnival. Those pages ask nothing of anybody and set no cookie. The site does not knowingly collect anything from children under 13; if you believe a child has signed the guestbook or joined the list, write to us and it will be removed.
Your choices
You can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be removed — your guestbook note, your place on the mailing list, your marks on the Gate, your artist account. Write to admin-privacy@thesavrok.com. We answer within 30 days, and removal reaches the backups within a month as above. Because most of what we keep is a scrambled code rather than your address, tell us roughly when and from where, and we will find what we can.
Wherever you live — the EU and UK, California or anywhere else — the same rights apply here, because it is simpler to give everybody the strongest version.
Security
The site uses encrypted connections only, stores passwords as one-way hashes, and asks for a second code to sign in. If you find a problem with the site's security, please write to admin-privacy@thesavrok.com; our security.txt says the same.
Changes
When what the site keeps changes, this page changes with it, and the date below moves.
Last changed 14 October 2026.