Privacy Policy

What this policy covers

View Deleted Tweets is a browser tool that looks up publicly archived posts from X (Twitter) accounts. This page explains what is stored when you search, what is stored when you buy, and who else is involved. There is no account system, so there is no profile to maintain.

What we do not collect

• No account, password, or sign-up form.
• No access to your X account, direct messages, or followers.
• No advertising trackers, and no cross-site profile built from your browsing.
• No card details — payment fields are handled entirely by Stripe.

What is stored

The username you search. A search creates a job keyed to the handle you entered. The job holds the archived links found for that public account, their verification status, and any recovered text or media. Nothing from a private or protected account can be read.

A token in your browser. When a search is unlocked, the browser keeps a session token and a receipt id in local storage so the results stay open in that browser. Clearing site data removes them, and the search has to be reopened from the same browser to be read again.

A purchase record. If you unlock a search, we store the Stripe checkout session id, payment intent, amount, currency, status, and the email address you enter at checkout. This is what ties a payment to a search.

Operational logs. Requests write a request id, route, timing, and error messages when something fails. Logs are used to diagnose failures, not to build a profile of visitors.

Analytics

Traffic is measured with Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager. It records what pages were opened, how you arrived, and coarse device and region information. Search terms are not sent: the handle you look up stays in the job record described above, never in analytics.

This measurement exists to see which pages are used and where the flow breaks — not to identify visitors. Google Analytics can be blocked with a browser extension or by refusing its cookies; the tool works the same either way.

Payments

Card details are submitted directly to Stripe and never reach our servers. Stripe processes the payment under its own privacy policy. We receive the outcome of the charge, the amount, and the email address attached to it.

Cookies and local storage

The site sets no advertising cookies. Google Analytics may set its own first-party cookies to tell a returning visit from a new one; they are used for aggregate traffic counts only. The site also uses browser local storage for the session token, receipt id, and interface preferences such as the filters you last used. Blocking local storage does not break searching, but an unlocked search will not persist across page loads.

Where archived content comes from

Posts, images, and video shown in results come from public web archives, chiefly the Internet Archive. Media is served through our own storage so it can load without hitting the original host. If an archived page is removed at the source, it stops appearing here.

Who processes data on our behalf

• Cloudflare — hosting, database, and file storage.
• Stripe — payment processing and receipts.
• Internet Archive — the public snapshots a search reads from.
• Google — aggregate traffic measurement through Google Analytics.

We do not sell data, and we do not share search history with anyone for marketing.

How long it is kept

Search jobs and their recovered results stay available so an unlocked search keeps working. Purchase records are kept for accounting and refund handling. Operational logs are short-lived and rotate out. Write to us if you want a search or a purchase record removed.

Your choices

You can request a copy or the deletion of the purchase record tied to your email address, and you can ask which searches are associated with it. Send the request from the same address used at checkout to support@viewdeletedtweet.cc.

Children

The service is not directed at children under 13, and purchases should be made by an adult.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it. Material changes are announced here rather than by email, since we hold no mailing list.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@viewdeletedtweet.cc.