A considered approach
to your privacy.
Your reading list
When you save a story, its identifier is stored in this browser on your device. It is not sent to MASSO Edition. Remove a bookmark to remove it from your list, or clear this site’s browser data to remove all saved stories.
Community votes
Fragrance voting uses a first-party cookie to remember this browser for up to one year. We store your choices with a random, pseudonymous identifier in our Supabase database. We do not ask for a name or email. Public results show totals only. You can change a choice or use “Remove my votes” on the fragrance page. Clearing cookies does not remove previously submitted votes and resets your ability to edit them.
To limit repeated automated submissions, our server derives a daily keyed hash from the connection’s IP address. The voting database stores only that hash in short-lived rate-limit counters, not the original IP address. Expired counters are removed on subsequent voting activity. Votes remain until you remove them; the hosting provider may separately retain standard request logs.
Perfume Shelf
If you create an account, Supabase stores your email address, sign-in credentials, display name and your private shelf entries. If you sign in with Google, Google authenticates you and may provide Supabase with your Google account identifier, email address, name and profile picture. We use your account identifier and email to recognise your account, and your name for your profile; MASSO Edition does not receive your Google password.
When you add a photograph, background removal and label recognition run in your browser; only the processed image and the fragrance details are saved to your private collection. You can remove items from your shelf. The models and software are downloaded from Hugging Face and jsDelivr; your original photo is not sent to those services.
Site visits
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the journal. The Google tag may set analytics cookies and send information such as page visits, device and browser details, and an IP address to Google for measurement. Fonts and editorial images are served with the website. Our hosting provider may also process standard request logs.
External links
Retailer, affiliate and Pinterest links take you to another service. Those services have their own privacy policies and may use cookies or other tracking technologies. MASSO Edition does not control how those services process data.
Updates
We will update this notice when changes affect how the journal handles personal information.