Trust, security & privacy

Q15 is a public technology news site. Articles, news pulses, cover images, and polls are intended to be readable by anyone without signing in. There are no user accounts for readers.

Reading the site requires no account. Editor access (publishing articles, managing pulses, site settings) is gated by an admin-only role stored in a dedicated roles table and enforced on the backend for every write.

Admin sign-in uses email and password authentication provided by our backend platform.

From visitors: nothing beyond standard request logs needed to serve the site. Polls and reactions are recorded anonymously (poll votes use a non-identifying voter hash to prevent duplicates).

From newsletter subscribers: only the email address you submit. Subscriber emails are readable only by site admins.

Article cover images, generated pulse images, and article audio are stored in public buckets because they are part of the published content. Uploads, updates, and deletions in those buckets are restricted to admins.

Q15 uses a managed backend platform for database, authentication, and storage; an AI gateway for headline summarisation; and ElevenLabs for optional article audio. We do not sell your data to third parties.

Q15 does not set advertising or cross-site tracking cookies on the public site. The editor area uses a session cookie for sign-in.

Older news pulses are pruned automatically to keep the dataset small. Subscribers can request removal of their email at any time via the contact below.

To report a security issue or request data removal, contact the site owner through the editor address on q15.dev. We aim to acknowledge security reports promptly.