Privacy Policy

At sKeskin, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring transparency about how we handle your personal information. This policy describes our data practices for our personal website and blog.

Automatically Collected Information

When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing behavior, including:

• Log Data: IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and pages visited. IP addresses may be used for rate limiting and abuse prevention
• Language Preferences: We detect and store your preferred language using browser settings and user selections
• Session Data: We use Flask sessions to maintain your language preferences, authentication state, and site functionality. Sessions may last up to 30 days if you select the "Remember me" option at login
• Device Information: Screen resolution, device type, and browser capabilities

Account Information

When you create an account, we collect:

• Registration Data: Username, email address, and a securely hashed password. Your email domain may be checked against a blocklist of disposable email providers
• Profile Information: Display name and biography that you choose to provide
• Avatar Images: Profile pictures you upload, which are stored on our server
• Authentication Data: Session tokens and optional TOTP two-factor authentication secrets
• Verification Status: Whether your account has been verified by an administrator
• Activity Data: Timestamps of account creation, logins, and content submissions

User-Generated Content

When you submit content, we collect:

• Peer Reviews: Review text, AI analysis results (sentiment, categories, spam/troll classification), and association with your account
• Blog Posts: Post content submitted by authorized users
• Search Queries: Search terms you enter when using the blog search feature are processed in real time to return results; they are not stored or logged

Other Information You Provide

We may also collect information when you:

• Contact us via email ([email protected])
• Interact with our blog posts
• Share content from our website

We use the collected information for the following purposes:

• Website Functionality: To provide and maintain our website services, including language preferences, user accounts, and session management
• Content Personalization: To display content in your preferred language, maintain your user profile, and provide relevant blog recommendations
• Content Moderation: To analyze user-submitted content (text and images) using AI systems to prevent spam, trolling, hate speech, pornographic material, and restricted topic violations. As part of moderation, the visibility of an account's content may be restricted (i.e. content remains visible to the author but is not distributed to other users)
• Public Profiles: To display your public profile information (display name, bio, avatar, review statistics) to other visitors
• Abuse Prevention: IP addresses are used to enforce rate limits on authentication attempts and content submissions to prevent abuse and brute-force attacks
• Communication: To respond to your inquiries and provide support when you contact us
• Analytics: To understand website usage patterns and improve our content and user experience
• Security: To protect our website from abuse, harassment, and illegal content, and to ensure secure operation through measures such as CSRF protection, session management, and security headers

We implement appropriate security measures to protect your personal information:

• Cloudflare Protection: Our website is protected by Cloudflare's security services, including DDoS protection, SSL/TLS encryption, and Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Session Security: We use secure session management with cryptographically secure secret keys
• Password Security: Passwords are hashed using bcrypt and are never stored in plaintext
• Two-Factor Authentication: Optional TOTP-based 2FA is available for enhanced account security
• Data Minimization: We only collect and retain data that is necessary for website functionality
• Access Control: Administrative functions are restricted to localhost and authorized personnel
• HTTPS Encryption: All data transmission is secured with HTTPS encryption provided by Cloudflare
• Content Moderation: All user-submitted content passes through AI moderation before publication; our systems operate on a fail-closed basis, meaning content is blocked if moderation is unavailable

Please note that no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to enhance your browsing experience:

• Session Cookies: Essential cookies that maintain your session state and language preferences
• Functional Cookies: Cookies that remember your settings and preferences
• Third-Party Services: We may use third-party services for analytics that may set their own cookies

You can control cookie settings through your browser preferences. However, disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality.

Our website integrates with and may include links to third-party services:

• Cloudflare: We use Cloudflare as our Content Delivery Network (CDN) and security provider. Cloudflare may collect certain information as described in their privacy policy
• OpenRouter / AI Services: User-submitted text content (peer reviews, profile names, bios, blog post titles/intros) and uploaded images (avatars) are sent to third-party AI models via OpenRouter for content moderation. This data is transmitted securely and is used solely for real-time moderation; we do not control how the AI provider retains or processes this data beyond the moderation request
• Social Media: Links to our LinkedIn and GitHub profiles
• External Content: Embedded videos or content from platforms like YouTube or Vimeo
• Analytics Services: Third-party analytics tools to understand website usage

These third-party services have their own privacy policies, and we encourage you to review them:

• Cloudflare Privacy Policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
• OpenRouter Privacy Policy: https://openrouter.ai/privacy
• GitHub Privacy Statement: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-privacy-statement
• LinkedIn Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these external services.

You have certain rights regarding your personal information:

• Access: You can request information about the data we collect about you
• Correction: You can request corrections to any inaccurate personal information
• Deletion (Right to Be Forgotten): You can delete your account at any time from your profile settings. This immediately and permanently removes your personal data (username, email, password hash, profile information, avatar, TOTP secrets, and active sessions). Peer reviews you have submitted are anonymised — they remain on the platform with the author shown as "Deleted User" to preserve the integrity of public discussion. You may also request deletion by contacting us at the email below
• Profile Management: You can edit your display name, biography, and avatar at any time through your profile settings
• Language Preferences: You can change your language settings at any time
• Contact Restrictions: You can opt out of communications by contacting us

To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected].

Our website is accessible worldwide and supports multiple languages (English and Turkish). We use Cloudflare's global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to serve our website:

• Global Infrastructure: Cloudflare operates data centers worldwide, so your requests may be processed at the nearest Cloudflare edge location for optimal performance
• Data Processing: Your information may be transferred to and processed in Turkey, the United States, or other countries where Cloudflare operates
• Data Protection: We will protect your information in accordance with this privacy policy regardless of where it is processed
• Legal Compliance: Different countries may have different privacy laws and regulations, including GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable data protection laws

We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. When we make significant changes:

• We will update the "last modified" date at the top of this policy
• We may notify users through our website or email
• Continued use of our website after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy

We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information.

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this privacy policy or our data practices, please contact us:

• Email: [email protected]
• Website: skeskin.com
• Response Time: We aim to respond to all privacy-related inquiries within 30 days

This privacy policy was last updated on March 11, 2026.