Privacy
Your privacy at FavQs
Start with the plain-language explanation, or read the full policy.
What happens to your information
FavQs keeps what it needs to run, never sells anything about you, and lets you delete your account at any time.
What we keep
Your email address and login, the quotes you add, favorite, hide and tag, and what you search for on the site. If you subscribe to Pro, Stripe handles your card; we keep only your subscription's details.
What's public
Quotes you make public, your login and profile, your public favorites and tags, and who you follow. Private quotes aren't public.
Who else handles it
A few services we use to run FavQs: Amazon Web Services for hosting and email, Stripe for payments, Cloudflare to keep bots off our forms, and Elastic for search. They can use it only to run FavQs, except that Stripe also uses it to stop fraud and Cloudflare to get better at spotting bots. We don't sell your information, and we don't show ads.
Cookies
Cookies keep you signed in and tie your searches to you. We use a cookie for site analytics. There are no advertising cookies.
The apps and AI agents
The FavQs apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV send favqs.com what they need to work: your sign-in, and what you favorite, hide and search for. AI agents can read public quotes, but never private ones or who added them.
How long we keep things
Your account, until you delete it. Page views with your IP address and location, 13 to 14 months. API request logs, 12 months. Anything you delete leaves our backups within 120 days.
Deleting your account
Delete it from your Account page at any time. That deletes your email address, your favorites, your private quotes, your votes, your searches and your history, and signs you out of the apps. Public quotes you added stay, without your name.
Questions
Email support@favqs.com. The full policy has the details, and it's the one that counts.
Privacy Policy
Last Revised: October 31, 2026
This policy explains what FavQs collects, why, who else handles it and what you can do about it. It covers the website at favqs.com, the FavQs apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV, the FavQs API and the FavQs MCP endpoint (together, the "Service"). Faceted Thought, LLC, an Illinois limited liability company ("FavQs", "we" or "us"), runs the Service and is responsible for your information. You can reach us at Faceted Thought, LLC, 535 Duane St, Suite 100, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137, or at support@favqs.com.
Changes to this policy
When we change this policy, we post the new version here with a new date. Changes take effect four weeks after we post them. If a change is significant, we also tell you the next time you visit favqs.com while signed in.
What we collect
What you give us
- Your account: your login, email address and password (we store only a hash of it), plus your profile and settings, such as your time zone.
- Your quotes and lists: quotes you add, public or private, and your favorites, votes, personal tags and the quotes you hide.
- Searches: what you search for on the site, kept with your account, or with your browser if you're not signed in.
- Messages: what you send through the contact form, with your email address.
- Payments: if you subscribe to FavQs Pro on favqs.com, Stripe handles your card. We keep your Stripe customer and subscription IDs, your subscription's dates and your receipts. If you subscribe in an app, Apple or Google handles your payment. We receive the purchase's ID, product, dates and status, matched to your FavQs account by an ID the app gives the store, never your payment details.
What we collect automatically
- Request logs: the time, your IP address, the page or API path, your browser or app, and the page you came from.
- Approximate location: we estimate your country, region or city from your IP address.
- Cookies: see "Cookies" below.
The FavQs apps
The FavQs apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV show no ads and don't track you across other companies' apps or websites. They get quotes from favqs.com, which logs each request with the time and your network's IP address, and estimates its approximate location.
- Signing in: the app sends your username or email and your password to favqs.com, and keeps you signed in on that device. favqs.com then ties your requests to your account, along with the quotes you favorite and hide.
- Searching: the app sends what you search for to favqs.com to find matching quotes.
- Reporting a quote: the app opens an email to support@favqs.com with the quote's link and text, which you can change before you send it. On Apple TV, a QR code opens that email on your phone, with the link only.
- Widgets, notifications and the menu bar: the Daily Quote widget, the daily quote notification and the Mac menu bar app get their quotes from favqs.com: the daily quote, or your favorites when you're signed in. Notifications are scheduled on your device, and the app doesn't tell favqs.com about them.
The apps don't use cookies.
AI agents and the MCP endpoint
AI agents can read public quotes through the FavQs MCP endpoint without an account. It serves public quotes only, never private quotes or anything about the people who added them. We log its requests like any other, with the time and IP address, but our application logs don't record what agents search for.
How we use it
- To run the Service: your account, your quotes and lists, search, the daily quote, and Pro.
- To keep it secure and working: to sign you in, stop abuse and spam, and fix problems.
- To email you about your account: sign-up, password resets and account deletion. These notices aren't optional while you have an account. Stripe, Apple or Google may email you Pro receipts. We'd send anything else only if you choose to get it, and each such email would have a way to stop.
- To understand use in aggregate, such as how many people visit.
- To follow the law.
We don't sell your personal information, share it for targeted advertising, or show ads.
Why we're allowed to
Where laws such as the GDPR ask for a legal basis:
- Running your account and the Service you asked for: to provide it under our Terms of Service.
- Our legitimate interests: keeping FavQs secure, stopping abuse, keeping logs, and counting visits in aggregate. We weigh these against your rights, and you can object.
- Your consent: any optional email. You can withdraw it at any time.
- The law: keeping payment records and answering lawful requests.
What's public
Anyone can see, on the site and through the API, quotes you make public, your login and profile, your public favorites, the tags you add to public quotes, who you follow and who follows you, and your public activity. The MCP endpoint serves public quotes without saying who added them.
Private quotes aren't public. The people who run FavQs can see them when they need to, for example to answer a report or a support request.
Who else handles it
We use these service providers to run FavQs. Each gets only what it needs, may use it only to provide its service to FavQs, except as noted below, and protects it under terms at least as protective as this policy:
- Amazon Web Services: hosts FavQs and its database in the United States, stores images and backups, and sends our email.
- Stripe: handles Pro payments on favqs.com. Stripe also uses payment information to prevent fraud and to meet its own legal duties, under its own privacy policy.
- Apple and Google: sell FavQs Pro in the apps through the App Store and Google Play, and tell us when a subscription is bought, renewed, canceled, refunded or ends. They handle your payment under their own privacy policies.
- Cloudflare Turnstile: checks that sign-up, password-reset and contact forms come from people. Cloudflare also uses what Turnstile sees to improve its bot detection, under its own privacy policy.
- Elastic: runs our search, and receives the text of each search to find matching quotes. Its search index holds public quotes only. For searches by meaning, Elastic's inference service turns the search into numbers; Elastic lists that service as keeping no data. Elastic also holds our operational logs.
We'll update this list when our providers change.
We may also share information if the law requires it, to protect people or FavQs from harm or fraud, or as part of a merger or sale of FavQs, in which case this policy keeps applying to it.
How long we keep it
- Your account, quotes and lists: until you delete them or your account.
- Searches: until you delete your account, or sooner if you ask us.
- Account history, such as sign-ins and password resets: until you delete your account.
- Emails you send us: in our support mailbox, until you ask us to delete them.
- Page views with your IP address and approximate location: 13 to 14 months. The lookups we make of your network's name are kept until at most 13 months after your last visit.
- Other request logs and diagnostic traces: about 30 days, at most about two months.
- API request logs: up to 12 months.
- Payment records: as long as the law requires, even after you delete your account.
- Backups: we keep database backups for 90 days, and a deleted backup can be recovered for 30 days more, so anything you delete leaves our backups within 120 days.
- Test copies: we keep a copy of the database on a private test system, with email addresses replaced, and replace that copy at least once a month. When you delete your account, you leave the test copy within a month.
Deleting your account
To delete your account, sign in at favqs.com and choose "Delete your account" on your Account page; the apps link there from their account settings. Deleting your account signs you out everywhere, including the apps, and deletes your account, your email address, your favorites, your private quotes, the quotes you hid, your votes, your searches and your account history. Public quotes you added stay on FavQs without your name, as the Terms of Service explain. We keep payment and purchase records as the law requires. Deleting your account doesn't cancel a subscription bought through the App Store or Google Play; cancel it there too.
Your choices and rights
- See and export your data: your Account page shows your details, and you can export your favorites and private quotes there.
- Correct it: change your details and your private quotes at any time; email us to correct a public quote you added.
- Delete it: delete your private quotes or your whole account, or ask us to delete your searches or your messages. Public quotes stay, without your name.
- Ask us: email us to get a copy of your data, to ask what we hold, to object to or restrict how we use it, or to withdraw consent. We'll answer within 30 days.
Depending on where you live, you may have more rights under laws such as the GDPR in Europe and the UK or privacy laws in California and other U.S. states. We honor these requests for everyone, wherever you live. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
Cookies
favqs.com sets cookies to keep you signed in, for up to two years or until you sign out; to keep a short session while you use the site; and to tie your searches to your browser or account, for up to two years.
We use a cookie for site analytics.
We don't use advertising cookies or third-party tracking cookies. You can block or delete cookies in your browser, but you'd have to sign in each time.
Security
We protect your information with HTTPS, hashed passwords, and access limited to the people who run FavQs. No service is perfectly secure, so please use a strong password that you don't use anywhere else.
Children
FavQs isn't for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information. If we learn an account belongs to a child under 13, we delete it.
Where your data is
FavQs is run from the United States, and your information is stored and processed there. If you're outside the U.S., we transfer it there to provide the Service you asked for. Our providers' data protection terms include the EU's standard contractual clauses, with their UK and Swiss versions.
Contact
Faceted Thought, LLC, 535 Duane St, Suite 100, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137, operator of FavQs: support@favqs.com.