No account, no profile. Here is exactly what the service stores.
VoteMeter sets an anonymous browser identifier so the same browser can be recognised for vote limits. It contains no name, email, or profile.
Anti-abuse identifiers are salted hashes derived from that ID plus basic request metadata such as IP address and user agent.
Signing in is only needed to start new votes. VoteMeter asks Google to confirm you have an account and stores nothing else.
We never store your name, email address, photo, or any other Google profile data. The only thing saved is a salted one-way hash of the account's opaque technical identifier, used to link your sessions and apply creation limits.
Signing out deletes the session on the server. Votes are never linked to your Google account in a recoverable way.
We record lightweight events — page views, votes, rejected votes, shares, sign-ins, and topic creations — tied to anonymous identifiers only.
Repeat votes inside the cooldown window or unusually high volume from one identity or network are rejected temporarily. That keeps the board resistant to spam.