What Made You Smile Today?
Privacy
Last updated October 4, 2026
What Made You Smile Today? is a small site run by one person, Ranjith Kumar Kakkarayil. This page explains what it stores, why, and how to delete it. Questions go to ranjithkumarkakkarayil.apps@gmail.com.
What is public
Posts are public. Anyone can see your username, your profile photo, what you post, the photos you add, and how many hearts a post has, with or without an account. Who left a heart is not shown.
If you add a post to a Smile Wall, the Smile Wall's name shows on the post, and the post also appears on that Smile Wall, which is public too.
If someone tags you with your @username, the tag is part of their public post.
Following
If you follow someone, we store that you follow them so their smiles can show in your Following tab. Only you can see who you follow. The person is never told, and no follower counts are kept or shown.
What your account stores
Your email, a password, your date of birth, your country, and your username. The password is stored by our sign-in provider in a form that cannot be read back. Your email, date of birth, and country are never shown on the site.
Date of birth and country are asked only to check the minimum age, which depends on your country. Your email is used to sign in and, rarely, to reach you about your account. There is no newsletter and no marketing email.
Each post also records whether it was shared from the website, the iPhone app, or the Android app. This is never shown on the site and is only used to count how many smiles come from each.
Phone app notifications
If you use the phone app and allow notifications, we store your phone's notification token, whether it is an iPhone or Android phone, and the usernames you have blocked in the app. We use them only to tell you when someone tags you in a smile, and never for a tag from someone you blocked. Notifications are delivered through Apple or Google. Logging out of the app or turning notifications off removes the token.
Photos
A photo is made smaller in your browser before it is uploaded. That also removes its hidden details, such as where it was taken and which camera took it.
Smile Walls
If you create a Smile Wall, we store that you created it. A Smile Wall shows only the details given for it, such as its name, description, website, city, country, logo, and cover image. It never shows anyone's email or exact location, and it does not show who created or manages it.
If you ask for a Smile Wall you created to be verified, we store when you asked. When a moderator decides, you get a message on the site.
Reports and moderation
If you report a post, we store that you reported it so you cannot report it twice. The person who posted it is not told who reported it. If a moderator sends you a message about a post, the message and a short quote of the post are kept so you can read it at your next visit.
Cookies and visit counts
The only cookies are the ones that keep you signed in. Logging out clears them. There are no advertising or tracking cookies.
We count visits by where they came from, such as a newsletter link or another website. Each count is only a day, a source, and a number: no cookie, no IP address, nothing that identifies you. If you create an account, it also records where that first visit came from.
To stop spam and abuse, the site briefly remembers your IP address or account to limit how often something can be done, such as signing in or posting. These limits expire on their own, usually within minutes.
Services that handle your data
Accounts and posts are stored with Supabase. Photos, Smile Wall logos, and cover images are stored with Cloudflare. The site is hosted by Netlify, which keeps short-lived server logs, including IP addresses, to run and protect the site. Short-lived copies of pages and the abuse limits above are kept with Upstash. Phone notifications are delivered by Apple and Google. The font is loaded from Google Fonts, which sees your IP address when it sends the font. These services may store data outside your country. We do not sell your data or share it with anyone else, unless the law requires it.
Deleting your account
Open your profile and choose Delete my account. That immediately deletes your account, every post, every photo, your profile photo, your hearts, your reports, who you follow and who follows you, and your phone notification settings. Smile Walls you created stay on the site, with no link to you, including any logo, cover image, and details you added to them, because those belong to the group's Smile Wall. After that, only moderators can edit it. You can also delete a single post at any time. Backups kept by our providers are cleared on their normal schedule. If you cannot sign in, email us and we will delete it for you.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, by emailing the address above. We will answer within 30 days.
Children
You need to be at least 13 to create an account, or older where your country's law requires it, up to 16. If we learn an account belongs to someone younger, we delete it.
Changes
If this page changes in a way that matters, the date at the top will change, and a big change will be announced on the site.