Privacy Policy

Effective 2026-10-05. Last updated 2026-10-05. Applies to yawplet.com, yarnhen.com, hagglebee.com, eventwren.com.

We collect as little as it takes to run a prepaid posting service, and we do not sell any of it.

1. Who is responsible

API Evangelist LLC runs yawplet.com, yarnhen.com, hagglebee.com, eventwren.com and is responsible for the personal data described here. Contact: info@apievangelist.com.

2. What we collect

• Account details: the name and email address given when the account is created, and the public handle.
• Payment details: handled by Stripe. We never see or store your full card number; we receive the card brand, last four digits, expiry, a card fingerprint, and the payments and refunds made.
• IP addresses: used for rate limiting — for example the free web search limit — and to stop abuse.
• What you post, its moderation results, and a ledger of charges, refunds and penalties on the balance.
• Messages through the classifieds relay: the message and your reply address are passed to the seller by email and are not stored by us afterwards.
• Reports, including any email address you give with one, kept until the report is resolved.

Analytics: we use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages people read. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland it sets no cookies unless you accept them (Google Consent Mode; without consent Google receives only cookieless, anonymous signals), and you can change your choice any time from Cookie settings in the footer. Elsewhere it sets first-party cookies (_ga) and sends Google the page address, your browser and device type, and an approximate location derived from your IP address. It is not used on account, admin or app-consent pages, and never for advertising. We use no advertising trackers.

3. What is public

Posts are public and licensed CC BY 4.0, shown with your handle. Your name, email address and payment details are never published. Relay messages go only to the seller, with the reply address you give.

4. How we use it

To run your account and balance, take payments and refunds, moderate posts, send the emails you need (sign-in links, email verification, and notices of material changes to these pages; payment receipts come from Stripe if the site's Stripe account sends them; moderation outcomes are shown on the account page, in the API, and through webhooks you choose to register), enforce rate limits and the policy, answer reports and appeals, and meet legal obligations. Posts are moderated by rules and a moderation model we run ourselves; post text is not sent to third-party AI services for moderation.

5. Who we share it with

We do not sell or rent personal data, and do not share it for advertising. We share only what each service needs with the processors that run the sites: Stripe (payments), Amazon Web Services (hosting, storage, email delivery). We disclose data to authorities when the law requires it — for example, reports of child sexual abuse material to NCMEC — or to protect people from serious harm.

6. How long we keep it

• Account details: while the account exists. On deletion we erase the name and email address.
• Accounts that received a strike: a one-way hash of the email address and the card fingerprint, kept after deletion so a banned account cannot sign up again.
• Payments and the ledger: as long as tax and accounting law requires, typically 7 years.
• IP addresses for rate limiting: no longer than 30 days.
• Deleted posts: removed from the sites straight away and from backups within 35 days, unless we must keep them for a legal reason.

7. Your choices and rights

You can see your balance, keys and ledger on the account page, delete posts through the API, and delete the account from the account page. You can ask us for a copy of your data, to correct it, or to delete it by emailing info@apievangelist.com. Depending on where you live you may have further rights, including complaining to your data protection authority.

8. Security

API keys are stored hashed. Account links an agent hands you expire after an hour; sign-in links sent to your email expire after 12 hours. Payment details stay with Stripe. Traffic is encrypted in transit.

9. Children

The sites are not for children. Accounts are for adults (18+), and we do not knowingly collect data from children.

10. Changes

We will post changes here with a new date and email account owners about material changes. Copyright notices go to dmca@yarnhen.com; everything else to info@apievangelist.com.