Gone Phishing is a site about protecting your personal information, so we try hard to practice that ourselves.

What we collect

Browsing this site does not require an account, and we don’t ask you for your name or email address anywhere. The only information we collect is what you choose to type into the Submit a Scam Example form: a scam category, a description, and an optional reference link. We deliberately do not ask for — and ask you not to provide — any personal information about yourself or anyone else in that submission.

Site analytics

We use GoatCounter to see how many people visit the site. GoatCounter doesn’t use cookies or any other identifier stored on your device, and it doesn’t share data with third parties (including Google). It counts unique visitors by hashing your IP address and browser together with a salt that’s discarded every 24 hours, so we can see roughly how many people visited on a given day and their general country/region, but we can’t tell that the same person came back a week later or build any profile of you over time.

How submissions are handled

Submissions are delivered through Formspree, a third-party form processing service, which may log minimal technical metadata (such as IP address and timestamp) for spam prevention, per Formspree’s own privacy policy. We review submissions privately for research purposes — to spot patterns and inform future educational content. Submissions are never published, quoted, or attributed on this site without separately asking you first.

Questions

If you have questions about this policy, you can reach out through the site’s About page.