Privacy Policy

TLDR: there are no visitor accounts, no ad trackers, and nothing to sell. The only personal information we hold is what someone put into the get-listed form, and nearly all of it is meant to be published.

What you give us

If you fill in the get-listed form, we collect what you put in it:

• Your business or brand name.
• What you do, in your own words.
• Your Instagram and TikTok handles, and a Spotify link or website if you add one.
• Which payment methods you take.
• The photos you upload.
• Anything you write in the last box.

We do not ask for your email, your phone number, your address, or your student ID. We have no way to take a payment and never ask for card details.

What we do with it

Most of it becomes your public page: your name, your description, your handles, your payment methods, and the city you work in. That is the point of the directory.

What you write in the last box is not published as written. It is stored with the rest of your answers and sent to the person running Agora, who reads it and adds anything that belongs on your page. All of it is kept whether or not the listing is approved, so we have a record of what was submitted.

Photos

The form takes a main photo and up to six more of your work. They are stored with our host and published on your listing. You can send them over Instagram instead if you would rather, in which case Instagram holds that conversation under its own policy.

What we collect automatically

We use Vercel Web Analytics to count page views. It sets no cookies and does not follow you between sites. We see which pages are busy, not who you are. Our host also keeps ordinary server logs, which include IP addresses, for a short window.

Separately, we keep a count of get-listed submissions, photo uploads and admin login attempts against the IP address they came from, in our own database, so that neither can be flooded. It is a counter and nothing more. It is not attached to your submission, and we do not use it to work out who you are.

Cookies

We set no cookies on you, and there is no banner to dismiss. The one thing kept on your device is how you like the directory laid out: grid or list, and how tight. Your browser remembers it so the page opens the way you left it. It never leaves your device and tells us nothing about you.

Who else touches it

We do not sell or share your information. A few services handle it because they run the site:

• Vercel, which hosts the site and stores uploaded images.
• Neon, which runs the database submissions are saved to.
• Resend, which delivers the notification email when a submission comes in.

Links off the site

Every listing links to Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, or its own website. Once you click through, you are on their site under their privacy policy, not ours.

Getting your information changed or removed

Message @agorabsu and tell us what you want changed or taken down. We will do it, and we will delete the submission behind it if you ask. Search engines may hold a cached copy of a page for a while after it comes down, which is out of our hands.

Age

Agora is for Ball State students. It is not aimed at children, and we do not knowingly collect anything from anyone under 13. If that has happened, message us and we will delete it.

Changes

We may update this policy. The date at the top is when it last changed.

Contact

Message @agorabsu on Instagram. That is the only contact route we run.