Privacy

When you complete onboarding, your browser saves the following in localStorage — Yorenji's storage that only your browser can read:

• Your name (as you typed it)
• Whether you're in Türkiye or planning to come
• Your nationality
• Your study level
• Your city (or intended city)
• Your top concern topic
• The date you completed onboarding

We also remember small UI state — whether you dismissed the welcome card, whether the 5-minute contribution prompt has been shown — so we don't pester you twice.

All of this is stored only in your browser. You can clear it any time via Your profile → Reset.

• Your email or phone number (we never ask)
• Your IP address (we don't have a server logging requests)
• Your browsing history within Yorenji
• Tracking cookies, analytics scripts, or fingerprinting
• Anything you type in the search box (the search runs on a tiny JSON file in your browser — your query never leaves your device)

The site is hosted on Hostinger. Their servers log standard web-server access information (timestamps, requested URLs, anonymised IP fragments) for reliability and security — this is industry-standard server logging and we do not access or read those logs to identify individual users.

We use a small number of fonts loaded from Google Fonts (Public Sans). Google may log font-request metadata per their own policy. We are evaluating self-hosting the fonts to remove this dependency.

The Stories feature is the single Yorenji surface that stores user-submitted data on a server. When you submit a story, we store:

• Your name (public — shown next to your story)
• Your email (private — never displayed; used only if we need to ask a clarifying question)
• Your story body
• Optional fields you chose to fill (nationality, city, university tag)
• The date you submitted

We store this on Supabase, in the Frankfurt (EU-Central) region. KVKK Art. 5 explicit consent is collected via the checkbox on the submission form.

Your story is private until we approve it. Every submission starts as status: pending and only becomes publicly readable once an editor (currently the founder) approves it. We may make minor edits for readability — never to change your meaning.

Deletion: email baozar.zakariyyah12@gmail.com from the email address you submitted with, and we will delete your story and profile within 7 days.

If you tap a phone number on any Fact, Update, or University page, your device's dialler opens with the number pre-filled. We don't initiate the call. We don't see that you tapped it. The number is delivered to your phone's dialler by your browser, not by us.

Email and WhatsApp links work the same way — your device's mail app or WhatsApp opens with a pre-filled subject. Whatever you send from there is sent by you, not by Yorenji.

When you tap “Tell us what's missing” on a search empty state or in the footer, your device opens its mail app with a subject line pre-filled (e.g., Yorenji — tell us what's missing). If you choose to send it, you're writing to the founder's personal email. We use those messages to decide what to add to the corpus — and only for that.

KVKK(Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kanunu, Law No. 6698) is Türkiye's data protection law. It regulates how organisations collect, store, process, and share personal data of people in Türkiye.

Because Yorenji has no server-side database, we do not process personal data in the legal sense under KVKK Art. 3. There is no data controller activity happening on our side because there is no data on our side.

If at some future point we add features that require us to store anything server-side (for example, the Stories contribution feature we've scoped), we will:

• Ask for explicit consent before storing anything (KVKK Art. 5)
• Tell you exactly what is stored, where, and for how long
• Give you a one-tap way to delete it
• Update this page to reflect the new posture

We will not change the rules quietly. If this page changes materially, every active visitor will be re-prompted to read it.

Yorenji is intended for university-aged students (18+). If you are a minor, please speak with a parent or guardian before using the site.

For any privacy question — or just to tell us something we should improve here — email baozar.zakariyyah12@gmail.com.

Last updated: 2026-06-04.