Effective Date: August 29, 2026
Welcome to Popcorn & Plotlines & Free Tools Hub (accessible via http://mastdn.ca). Your privacy is critically important to us. This policy details how we handle information collected from your visits, tool usage, and community interactions.
Who We Are
Our website address is: http://mastdn.ca. We run a dual-purpose platform bringing you deep-dive cinematic analysis alongside high-utility digital workflows, including our public Instagram media extraction utilities.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site (such as on movie analyses or tool guides), we collect the data shown in the comments form. We also collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in automated spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available externally. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media & Tool Submissions
- Image Uploads: If you upload images anywhere on the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images hosted on the website.
- Instagram Profile Tool Usage: Our site features a free tool that processes public Instagram usernames or profile URLs. When you perform a search, the page extracts the public profile picture preview. To make downloads reliable, requests pass through a same-site backend proxy. We do not store, catalog, or harvest these looked-up usernames or downloaded avatar images on our databases.
Cookies
- Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.
- Session & Login Cookies: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we establish several cookies to save your login credentials and screen layout choices. Login cookies last for two days; screen options cookies last for a year. Selecting “Remember Me” keeps your login active for two weeks. Logouts clear these cookies.
- Author Cookies: If you edit or publish an article or technical guide, an additional cookie is saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data, simply tracks the post ID of the article edited, and expires after 24 hours.
Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., streaming video trailers, social media posts, images, or external tool modules). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the source website directly.
These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, especially if you possess an account and are logged into that specific website.
Who We Share Your Data With
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. Data sharing is limited to functional infrastructure needs:
- Security: If you request a password reset, your current IP address will be included in the reset email.
- Spam Prevention: Visitor comments are checked continuously through an automated spam detection service.
How Long We Retain Your Data
- Community Interactions: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
- User Accounts: For users who register on our website (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (usernames cannot be changed). Website administrators can also see and edit that profile information.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you hold an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have explicitly provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any administrative, legal, or security data we are strictly obliged to keep.