Privacy Policy

Anytown is a local-news platform operated by HappyVertical for Blindman Press and participating Anytown network publications. Blindman Press is the first reference network tenant. HappyVertical builds, hosts, and operates the Anytown dashboard, social publishing tools, and supporting infrastructure.

Individual publications and tenants remain responsible for their own editorial content, publication accounts, and instructions to publish. For privacy, data access, revocation, or deletion requests, contact Anytown at privacy@anytown.ai.

Anytown provides dashboard, tenant and site management, local-news operations, advertising tools, and social publishing workflows. Anytown helps authorized tenant administrators connect social accounts, create or approve post drafts, schedule and publish content, and review publishing status or analytics.

When people use the dashboard, we collect and process account and profile information needed to authenticate them and authorize their work in a tenant. This can include name, email address, user id, tenant memberships, roles, permissions, session metadata, login timestamps, and security events.

When an authorized user connects a social platform account, page, channel, profile, or app credential, Anytown may collect and store data needed to maintain that connection and perform the publishing actions the tenant configured.

• Connected platform name, such as Google/YouTube, Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Threads, or X.
• Platform account, page, channel, profile, business, or organization ids.
• Display name, handle, profile URL, channel URL, page URL, or similar account metadata.
• Granted scopes, permissions, token status, token expiry, readiness checks, and connection health metadata.
• OAuth access tokens, refresh tokens, page tokens, app credentials, or secret references needed to publish, upload media, retrieve status, or read analytics as authorized.

Anytown processes the content and operational records needed to create, approve, schedule, publish, troubleshoot, and report on social posts.

• Drafted, approved, scheduled, or published post text, captions, links, media URLs, thumbnails, hashtags, content references, and publication metadata.
• Platform post ids, URLs, upload ids, media ids, container ids, publishing status, review status, errors, rejection messages, retry data, and platform response metadata.
• Analytics snapshots such as views, impressions, engagement counts, watch metrics, click metrics, and related reporting fields where the connected platform provides them.

• Google and YouTube: channel and account metadata, OAuth scopes, upload authorization, video upload status, and private or public video uploads only when explicitly requested or scheduled by authorized tenant administrators.
• Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads: pages, profiles, or accounts the user can manage, page or profile ids, page access tokens, publish and schedule actions, media containers, post status, and insight data.
• X: account tokens or credentials supplied by tenant administrators, publish actions, media upload actions, post URLs and ids, and post metrics where available.

• Authenticate dashboard users and protect sessions.
• Let tenant administrators connect and manage social accounts.
• Create, review, approve, schedule, publish, and track posts on connected platforms.
• Upload media or video when authorized by a tenant administrator.
• Troubleshoot failed publishing, rejected posts, expired credentials, or platform API errors.
• Maintain tenant records, audit trails, reports, and compliance records.
• Comply with platform, security, operational, and legal requirements.

We share data with connected social platforms only as needed to perform the publishing, upload, account-management, status, and analytics actions authorized by the tenant administrator. We also share data with infrastructure, database, hosting, email, observability, and security providers used to run Anytown.

We do not sell dashboard, OAuth, or social publishing data. We do not use connected-account data for unrelated advertising, surveillance, or profiling.

Credentials and tokens are stored as encrypted secrets or secret references where supported by the platform architecture. Raw token values are not displayed after save, and access to social connections is restricted to authorized tenant, publication, and platform administrator roles.

Operational logs are designed to avoid raw token values. If a secret is exposed or suspected to be exposed, we may revoke or rotate it and require the tenant to reconnect the affected platform account.

When a social account is disconnected, deactivated, or deleted in Anytown, we delete or revoke stored platform credentials where technically possible and stop using that connection for future publishing. Tenant administrators may also revoke app access directly in the connected platform settings.

We generally retain publishing status, post records, audit history, and analytics records for up to seven years for operational, audit, reporting, accounting, and security purposes unless a tenant agreement, platform rule, or legal requirement requires a different period. Already-published public posts remain on the social platform until removed there or through available platform tools.

Users and tenants can request access, correction, revocation, or deletion by emailing privacy@anytown.ai. Data deletion instructions are available on the Data Deletion Instructions page.

Anytown's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Google and YouTube data is used only to provide or improve user-facing publishing, upload, account-management, status, and analytics features requested by authorized tenant administrators.

Depending on where you live and the tenant relationship involved, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or receive a copy of your personal data. You may also ask us to disconnect a platform account or delete stored credentials associated with your tenant.

Send requests to privacy@anytown.ai and include your name, requester email, tenant or publication name, and the social platform account, page, profile, or channel involved. We may need to verify your authority before changing tenant or platform records.

This policy is effective May 8, 2026. We may update it as the Anytown platform, connected platform APIs, or legal requirements change. Material updates will be posted on this page, and we may notify affected tenants through dashboard notices, email, or tenant administration channels.