Who we are
Detour (“we,” “us”) runs the website at detour.quest. You can reach us at info@detour.quest.
Information we collect
If you don’t sign in, we don’t ask for any personal information. Your saved sites and chosen topics are stored only in your own browser, using its local storage.
If you create an account, we collect:
- Your email address, used to send sign-in links and to identify your account. If you sign in with Google, we receive your email address and basic profile details from Google.
- The sites you save, your thumbs-up and thumbs-down votes, and any sites you submit, along with when you did so.
- The display name you choose and any comments you post. Your display name and comments are public: anyone visiting Detour can see them. Your email address is never shown.
- Reports you make about other people’s comments.
Automatically, like nearly every website, our hosting and service providers process technical information such as your IP address, browser type, and the pages you request. This is used to deliver the site, keep it secure, and understand overall traffic.
How we use it
- To run your account: signing you in, syncing your saved sites, and recording your votes and submissions.
- To review and publish submitted sites, and to moderate comments, including automatically filtering profanity and links.
- To keep Detour secure and prevent spam and abuse.
- To understand how the site is used, in aggregate, so we can improve it.
- To reply when you email us.
We don’t send marketing emails, and we don’t sell or rent your personal information to anyone.
Services we rely on
We use trusted providers to run Detour. They process information on our behalf and only as needed to provide their service:
- Cloudflare hosts the website and handles its network traffic.
- Supabase stores account information, saved sites, votes, and submissions.
- Resend delivers sign-in emails.
- ScreenshotOne takes the preview screenshots of websites listed on Detour. It receives only the addresses of those websites, never information about you.
- Google Fonts and jsDelivr deliver the site’s fonts and code, which means your browser connects to them when a page loads.
Advertising and cookies
Detour may show ads to help cover its costs, including ads served by Google. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this and other sites on the internet.
You can opt out of personalized advertising from Google by visiting Google Ads Settings, and from many other vendors at aboutads.info. Where required by law, we’ll ask for your consent before personalized ads are shown.
Apart from advertising, Detour uses your browser’s local storage only for things that make the site work, like keeping you signed in and remembering your saved sites and topics.
Links to other websites
Detour is a guide to other websites. When you visit a site through Detour, you leave Detour, and that site’s own privacy practices apply. Please review the policies of the sites you visit.
How long we keep information
We keep your account information for as long as your account exists. When you ask us to delete your account, we delete your email address, display name, comments, saved sites, and votes. You can also delete any of your comments yourself at any time. Sites you submitted that were approved and published may stay on Detour without being linked to you.
Your choices and rights
You can ask us to access, correct, export, or delete your personal information by emailing info@detour.quest from the address on your account. Depending on where you live, including Connecticut, other U.S. states, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, you may have additional rights under local law, and we’ll honor requests as those laws require. You can also clear the information stored in your browser at any time through your browser settings.
Children
Detour isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, contact us and we’ll delete it.
Security
We use reputable providers, encrypted connections, and access controls that keep each person’s account data private to them. No online service can promise perfect security, but we work to protect your information.
Changes to this policy
If we update this policy, we’ll change the date at the top of this page. For significant changes, we’ll post a notice on the site.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email info@detour.quest.