Privacy
Plain language, and checkable against the code. If anything here is not true of what the network actually does, that is a bug and we want to hear about it.
No cookies on your site. Not for tracking, not for “analytics”, not for a consent banner we then ignore. The only cookie Daylight ever sets is a first-party login cookie for somebody who has explicitly logged in to their own dashboard.
No fingerprinting. No canvas hashing, no device enumeration, no cross-site graph, no profile.
Contextual only. A unit knows what kind of site it is on. It does not know who you are, and there is nowhere for it to look that up.
Nothing is joined across sites. There is no identifier that survives one page view, so two visits to two sites are two unrelated rows.
What happens to an IP address
When you click an ad, your address is hashed with a rotating daily salt and only the hash is written. The address itself is dropped inside the same request — it is never written to a file, a column or a log we keep.
The salt is deleted after two days, which means nobody — us included — can work backwards from an old hash to an address. It is not a policy about who is allowed to look; there is nothing left to look at.
The browser is recorded as a family — Chrome/macOS — parsed from the user-agent and never the string itself. The web server’s own access log is configured to zero the last part of every visitor address, so the promise holds at every layer we control rather than only in the application.
What we do keep
All of it is either a count or a row about an ad. None of it is about a person.
- Impression counts
- One row per date, site and ad — how many times a unit was drawn and how many of those were on screen.
- Click rows
- Timestamp, which ad, which site, the salted hash, the browser family, whether it was verified, and the reason if it was not. Published on the site’s own page.
- Ad content
- The title, description and image of every listing, and a re-encoded copy of the image. Nothing about visitors.
Getting out, and telling us we’re wrong
If your product is listed and you would rather it were not, or you run a board whose listings are here, ask us to take it off. The request is on file the moment you send it, a person does the removal by hand, and it stays off unless you ask us to reverse it.
Spot something on this page that is not true of the code? email hello@daylight.ad or tag @jrya7 on X. We will fix it in public rather than quietly.