Privacy Policy and Data Protection

What we keep (and why)

Just enough for the place to work. If you have an account: your email or phone number, which is your key to get in (there are no passwords here), your Magikito name and handle, and whatever you add to your profile: where you're from, a bio, your social handles. And what you bring: audio, text, examples and votes. We never ask for a postal address or payment details, because nothing is sold here.

We do not sell your data or hand it to anyone for advertising. We use it for what this page says and nothing else. What we do share with a few trusted processors (email, WhatsApp, artificial intelligence) is explained below, with names.

Your voice and what you contribute

When you record and publish something (a story or a joke in the Estudio, your voice on an expression, or an improvement to a dictionary entry from the form or from the guardian Magikito's chat), it is published on Magikitos publicly, with your Magikito name and handle as visible authorship, and anyone can listen to it, read it and share it. We transcribe it to show the text next to the voice. Stories also go out on our podcast (RSS feeds that podcast apps pick up), so they can be heard outside this website too.

Before you send anything we ask your permission once, with a checkbox that says exactly this, and we remember it on your account so we don't ask again. What you record in the Estudio and don't publish stays as a private draft. If you want something already published taken down, ask from Settings or write to [email protected] and we remove it within one month at the latest, no questions asked.

All community audio is from real people, verified, never AI-generated. You can read the details in our moderation policy .

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Your account, your name and your setines

You don't need to sign up to take part: the first time you bring something we draw a Magikito name and handle for you, and your contribution is published under them. That anonymous identity lives in your browser. If you don't claim it with your email and leave nothing behind, it is recycled after seven days. If you claim it, your contributions travel with you.

Your profile is public: name, handle, where you're from if you said so, your bio and socials if you added them, what you've contributed and your setines, which measure what you've brought (they are not money and cannot be redeemed for anything). What moves most enters the public all-time ranking. If you enable push notifications, your browser gives us a technical address to deliver them, which you can revoke at any time.

If you sign in with Google, or type your full name when you save your account, that becomes your account name: it signs what you bring, shows on your profile and gives your profile its address (Antonio Gómez becomes /u/antonio_gomez). If you don't give us one, we give you a forest name. You can change both any time in Settings.

Artificial intelligence: what it does and what it doesn't

We use AI models for specific jobs: transcribing the audio the community publishes (with Groq and, if that fails, OpenAI), reviewing every dictionary contribution (a model decides whether what you propose fits the entry and drafts the guardian Magikito's reply), setting aside what can't be published from the Estudio, titling and categorising jokes and stories, translating the site into six languages, drawing illustrations and profile portraits (OpenAI), cleaning background noise from voices (ElevenLabs) and laying a music bed under stories.

What we do NOT do: we don't build profiles about you or make automated decisions about you or your account. Automated decisions are about content (whether an expression fits, whether an audio can be published). You can always appeal them from the notice itself or by writing to us, and a person reviews them. When you write to us on WhatsApp, by email or through the form, a person reads and answers you. We don't train models on your data or your audio.

The text and audio being processed travel to those providers only to do that job, as our processors. OpenAI explains its side in its privacy policy and Groq and ElevenLabs have their own.

Who we share your data with

Only with those needed to make something work, each for its own task: SendGrid delivers our emails and tells us whether they were opened or a link was clicked, Cloudflare serves the site and checks you're a person (Turnstile), Google identifies you if you choose to sign in with your Google account, Meta carries WhatsApp messages if you write to us there, and OpenAI, Groq and ElevenLabs process text and audio as described above.

Some of them are outside the European Union. With those we use the safeguards the law requires (the European Commission's standard contractual clauses) and send them only what's necessary. None of them may use your data for their own purposes.

Cookies & Tracking (the forest breadcrumbs)

We only use technical cookies: the ones needed for your session to work. None for advertising and none from third parties. That's why you won't see a cookie banner: there is nothing to accept.

We don't use Google Analytics or any third-party tracking tool. We measure on our own: which pages are visited, how much of an audio is listened to, what gets shared. That data never leaves here.

If you block cookies in your browser, your session will stop working properly. That's the only thing you lose.

How we measure

Your browser stores an anonymous identifier (a random code, not your name) so we don't count the same device twice. With it we measure visits, listens and reads, and those events are deleted after 400 days. If you're signed in, that measurement is linked to your account, which is what lets us, for example, not count your own listens in the ranking of what you brought.

The mushrooms you rate a joke, a story or the voice of an expression with are stored with that same device identifier, so each device votes once per piece and can change its vote. If you vote while signed in, the vote is also linked to your account. With every vote we also keep, for thirty days, an encrypted fingerprint of the connection it came from, which is not your address and only serves to catch cheating in the voting. After 400 days we delete the identifier and the vote remains only as a number in the average. Your browser remembers what you voted so it can mark it for you.

How long we keep things and how they get deleted

What you publish stays published as long as you want: that's what gives this place its value. Your account, your accepted contributions, your setines and the ranking are kept while the account exists. Everything else expires on its own: measurement after 400 days, notifications after 180, chats with the guardian Magikito after 90, rejected contributions after 180, email logs after 400 and the device identifier on mushroom votes after 400.

You can delete your account yourself from Settings, in one click and instantly: your personal data and everything that was only yours (your notifications, your Studio drafts, your setines) are erased. What you published on a page of its own (joke and story audio, expressions and voices) stays in the house without your name, because other people already use it. If you want it gone too, request the deletion of your content from Settings (or write to us) and we remove it within one month at the latest, as the law sets.

Your rights

You have the right to access your data, correct it, erase it, restrict how we process it, object to that processing and take it elsewhere. Whatever you cannot do yourself from Settings, ask us by writing to [email protected] and we handle it within one month of receiving it at the latest, which is what the General Data Protection Regulation sets. You can also complain to the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) if you think something is not right.

The controller of this data is Magikitos, in Taramundi (Asturias, Spain), and the email above is how to reach us about anything on this page.

This place is meant for people aged 14 and over. If you're younger, ask an adult to be with you before leaving your voice or creating an account. If we notice an account belonging to someone younger without that, we remove it.

Contact & Questions (let's chat)

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, about how we handle your data, or you simply want us to explain things in a different, clearer way, write to us. We love chatting and clearing up doubts. Honestly.

You can reach us at [email protected] or through the contact form. A person answers you, usually the same day.

Thanks for trusting the Magikitos and for taking the time to read this. We look after your data as if they were our own forest secrets. With respect, with care and with all the seriousness they deserve.

Last reviewed: October 5, 2026