Privacy statement
Approved on 30 October 2026.
Quotogeny is made by Van Riel Online Services. We keep as little about you as we can. This page says what that is.
Cookies
The site sets no cookies unless you sign in. When you do, it sets the ones signing in needs, and no others: one for the few minutes you are at Google and back, which protects the sign-in from being taken over, and one that keeps you signed in for up to 30 days, or until you sign out. They tell us who is signed in and nothing about what you do on other sites.
It also keeps two things in your browser, on your device only, and never sends them to us: the last few pages you opened from the search, so it can offer them again, and, if you play the daily game, your answers, scores and streak. Clearing the site’s data in your browser removes them.
Counting visits
We count visits with Plausible, which we run ourselves at p.signalbase.app. Your browser reaches it only through quotogeny.com, which passes on your internet address and the name your browser gives itself; Plausible uses them only to tell your country, your browser and kind of device, and a code that changes every day, so a visit is counted once without knowing who made it. It sets no cookies and stores no personal data, so it runs without asking for your consent. The page’s address goes without what comes after the question mark; only campaign tags in a link (such as utm_source) are kept. Besides page views, it counts when a check, a search, a submission, a request to trace a quote or a comment is made, and what came out (for example ‘not found’), never what you typed; when a daily game is finished or shared, with its score; and when a quote is saved or shared as an image, with the image’s size, or its link is sent to a platform, with which one. The images are drawn in your browser: nothing about them is sent to us.
Checking and finding quotes
The quote you check, or what you ask a quote for, goes to our server, which compares it with the texts and sends back the answer. We do not store it. To stop one visitor from overloading the server, your internet address is held in the server’s memory for up to an hour, to count your checks; it is not written down.
Submitting a quote
When you submit a quote, or ask us to trace one the check did not find, we keep what you send: the quote, who it is credited to, where you saw it and, only if you give one, the name you want to be credited by. We do not ask for your e-mail address.
To limit how often one person can submit (ten a day), we keep a scrambled code made from your internet address (a salted hash), not the address itself.
What you send is screened for safety by an AI judge, Jev, run by TypeSafe, which receives the quote, who it is credited to, where you saw it and your credit name. Quotes that pass are published on this site with what the check found and, if you gave one, your credit name. The others wait for a person, or are not published.
We have not yet set a period after which submissions are deleted; until we do, they are kept.
Signing in
You can sign in with a Google account, to leave a comment or to check an entry. Google then knows you signed in to Quotogeny; see Google’s own privacy policy for what it keeps. From Google we receive your name and e-mail address, and keep those, with which account you used and when you signed in. Not your picture, and no access to your account: we cannot read your mail or act for you. Your name appears beside what you write; your e-mail address is never shown, and we use it only to reach you about your comments or checks if we must.
To stop abuse, the server counts sign-ins and requests per internet address for up to an hour, in memory, and keeps the address and the browser’s name with each session you are signed in, until it ends (at most 30 days).
We keep your account as long as you have comments or checks on the site or have used it in the last two years. After two years unused, we delete it; if comments or checks of yours are still on the site, we delete only your e-mail address, and your name stays with them. You can delete your account yourself at any time on the sign-in page: that deletes your comments and checks too.
Commenting
When you comment on a quote, we keep what you write, the link you add, what kind of comment it is, which account you were signed in with, and a scrambled code made from your internet address (a salted hash, not the address), to limit how much one person can post.
Your comment and its link are screened for safety by Jev, the AI judge run by TypeSafe, which also receives the quote it is about; not your name, not your e-mail address. Then a person reads it. Only comments that person publishes appear on the site, with your name and the date. When a comment is refused or removed, the reason is kept with it and shown to you.
How long: a published comment stays as long as the quote’s page exists, unless you ask us to remove it or delete your account. A refused or removed comment, with its reason, is deleted after six months. The scrambled code of your address is deleted after 30 days.
Anyone can report a published comment. We keep the report and, if you give them, your name and e-mail address, so we can tell you what we decided; the name and address are deleted after six months. Reports from several people take a comment down until it has been looked at again. See the terms of use.
Checking an entry
When you check an entry (approve it, or say you could not confirm it), we keep your verdict, your reason, the link you add, which boxes you ticked, the date, which version of the entry you checked, which account you were signed in with, and a scrambled code made from your internet address (as for comments). With your first check you choose the name shown with your checks and, if you like, a link to a page about you; we keep every name you set, so that we can see which one was shown when.
Your reason, your link and the name you chose are screened by Jev (TypeSafe), with the quote; not your e-mail address. Your first checks, and checks after you change your name, are read by a person before they appear; after that a check that passes the screen appears at once. A published check shows your chosen name, your link, your verdict, your reason and the date, on the quote’s page and on the list of approvers, which counts your checks.
How long: as for comments. A published check stays as long as the quote’s page exists, unless you ask us to remove it or delete your account (which deletes your checks and your chosen name too). A refused or withdrawn check, with its reason, is deleted after six months; the scrambled code of your address after 30 days. Reports about a check are kept as reports about a comment.
Reporting a copyright problem
When you send a copyright notice, we keep what you send: the page, the work, who holds the rights, your relation to them, your explanation, your name and your e-mail address, with the reference number and each step we take, with its date and reason. Your notice goes to no one else, and to no AI: Jev does not see it. We use your name and address only to answer you about the notice. The public register holds no personal data and does not name you.
To limit how many notices one person can send, we keep a scrambled code made from your internet address (a salted hash, not the address), and the server counts them per address for up to an hour, in memory.
How long: the scrambled code is deleted after 30 days. Six months after the last decision on a notice, your name, e-mail address and relation to the rights holder are deleted. If the notice led to nothing being withheld, the rest goes then too. If it did, the rest stays as the record of why, for as long as it is needed. A message you send us by e-mail is kept the same way.
Who processes it for us
The site and its server run on Bunny (bunny.net), which delivers the pages to your browser. The AI judge Jev is run by TypeSafe, outside the European Union. We have an agreement with each of them that binds them to use what they receive only for us; for TypeSafe it includes the safeguards the GDPR requires when data goes outside the EU.
Your rights
You may ask to see, correct or delete what we keep about you, such as a submission you sent: write to info@vanriel.eu. You may also complain to the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.