Privacy.

Who is responsible

Slice of Media, Inc., trading as Ribbyn, decides what personal data Ribbyn collects and what is done with it, and is responsible for it. Write to hello@ribbyn.co with any question about this notice.

What we collect

Your email address and display name when you create an account. What you follow. Claims, corrections and disputes you file. Bids and the billing details of a sponsor organization you manage.

When you vote, your email address is used once to confirm the vote and stored only as a keyed hash so the same address cannot vote twice.

Nominations

A nomination is the one place Ribbyn keeps an email address for someone with no account, and it is deliberate: the publisher has to be able to write back. When you nominate someone, the publishers of that program see your name, your address, what you wrote, and how you said you know the nominee. Nobody else does, and none of it appears on any public page.

Nothing is stored when you press send. The whole submission travels in an encrypted link to the address you gave, and is only written once you open it. Say how you know the nominee honestly: publishers weigh a submission from an agency differently from one from a colleague, which is the point of asking.

What we never do

We do not sell personal data. We do not show sponsors who voted, who follows what, or who visited a page. Vote totals are published; voters are not. We never publish who nominated whom, or how many nominations anyone received.

Abuse protection

To keep votes honest, Ribbyn records a keyed hash of the network address and browser of each vote attempt, and may use Cloudflare Turnstile to tell people from scripts. These hashes are reviewed only when a vote looks coordinated, and are not linked to a public identity.

Payments

Card and payout details are held by Stripe, our payment provider. Ribbyn stores a reference to the saved method and the last four digits, never the number.

Email

Transactional email (sign-in links, vote confirmations, bids, reviews) is sent through Resend and cannot be switched off while the account exists. Reminders and digests can be switched off in your account.

Asking to be emailed when results are out creates a Ribbyn account with that address and follows the program for you. It is the same one-click link as signing in, and Ribbyn keeps no separate reminder list.

Analytics and errors

Ribbyn uses Vercel Web Analytics and PostHog for product analytics, and Sentry for error reports. Vercel receives pages and short event details such as a plan or a list type, not your email, your name, or a profile address. PostHog and Sentry receive an account identifier and role, not your email or name. Analytics can be blocked with your browser's tracking settings.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of your data, correct it, or delete your account by writing to hello@ribbyn.co. Recognition records on a profile are public editorial content and remain published; personal account data is removed.

Where data lives

Ribbyn runs on Vercel and Supabase in the United States. If you are outside the United States, your data is processed there.