User Agreement

Privacy Policy

What information do we collect?

Basic account information: If you register on this server, you may be asked to enter a username, an e-mail address and a password. You may also enter additional profile information such as a display name and biography, and upload a profile picture and header image. The username, display name, biography, profile picture and header image are always listed publicly.

Posts, following and other public information: The list of people you follow is listed publicly, the same is true for your followers. When you submit a message, the date and time is stored as well as the application you submitted the message from. Messages may contain media attachments, such as pictures and videos. Public and unlisted posts are available publicly. When you feature a post on your profile, that is also publicly available information. Your posts are delivered to your followers, in some cases it means they are delivered to different servers and copies are stored there. When you delete posts, this is likewise delivered to your followers. The action of re-blog or favorite another post is always public.

Direct and followers-only posts: All posts are stored and processed on the server. Followers-only posts are delivered to your followers and users who are mentioned in them, and direct posts are delivered only to mentioned users. In some cases it means they are delivered to different servers and copies are stored there. We make a good faith effort to limit the access to those posts only to authorized persons, but other servers may fail to do so. Therefore it's important to review servers your followers belong to. You may toggle an option to approve and reject new followers manually in the settings. Please keep in mind that the operators of the server and any receiving server may view such messages, and that recipients may screenshot, copy or otherwise re-share them. Do not share any dangerous information over quey.

IPs and other metadata: When you log in, we record the IP address you log in from, as well as the name of your browser application. All the logged in sessions are available for your review and revocation in the setting. The latest IP address used is stored for up to 12 months. We also may retain server logs which include the IP address of every request to our server.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in the following ways:

To provide the core functionality of quey. You can only interact with others' content and post your own content when you are logged in. For example, you may follow other people to view their combined posts in your own personalized home timeline.

To aid moderation of the community, for example comparing your IP address with other known ones to determine ban evasion or other violations.

The email address you provide may be used to send you information, notifications about other people interacting with your content or sending you messages, and to respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. Among other things, your browser session, as well as the traffic between your applications and the API, are secured with SSL, and your password is hashed using a strong one-way algorithm. You may enable two-factor authentication to further secure access to your account.

Do we use cookies?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow). These cookies enable the site to recognize your browser and, if you have a registered account, associate it with your registered account.

We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to other parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.

Your public content may be downloaded by other servers in the network. Your public and followers-only posts are delivered to the servers where your followers reside, and direct messages are delivered to the servers of the recipients, in so far as those followers or recipients reside on a different server than this.

When you authorize an application to use your account, depending on the scope of permissions you approve, it may access your public profile information, your following list, your followers, your lists, all your posts, and your favourites. Applications can never access your e-mail address or password.

Site usage by children

Our site, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 16 years old. If you are under the age of 16, do not use this site.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.

Terms of Use

Listings, images, and other materials posted on, transmitted through, or linked from toppickz.com, are the sole responsibility of the person / party from whom such contents originated. toppickz.com does not control, and is not responsible for any content made available through the service, and that by using the service, you may be exposed to content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise objectionable.

Furthermore, contents available through the service may contain links to other websites, which are completely independent. toppickz.com makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information shown on any such site. Your visit to any website is at your own risk. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any content, that you may not rely on such content, and that under no circumstance will toppickz.com be liable in any way for any content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted or otherwise made available via the service.

You acknowledge that toppickz.com does not pre-screen or approve any content, but that toppickz.com shall have the right, but not the obligation, in its sole discretion to refuse, delete or move any content that is available via the service, for violating the terms or for any reason.

You agree not to post and share:
i) excessive advertising
ii) fake and inaccurate news / sources
iii) nudity, pornography and sexually explicit content, including artistic depictions
iv) content which is extremely graphic violence, including artistic depictions

The following types of content will be removed and may result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service:
i) Racism or advocation of racism
ii) Sexism or advocation of sexism
iii) Abuse / sexually explicit content / including artistic depictions of children
iv) Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
v) Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism

Any conduct intended to stalk or harass other users, or to impede other users from utilizing the service, or to degrade the performance of the service, or to harass other users, or to incite other users to perform any of the aforementioned actions, is also disallowed, and subject to punishment up to and including revocation of access to the service.