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Privacy

eko is a gallery. Part of what it holds is meant to be seen, and the rest is private. This page says which is which.

Last updated 15 August 2026

Who is responsible

eko is run by Futoky. For anything on this page, including a request to see, correct or delete what is held about you, write to hello@ekogalerie.com.

What is public, and what is not

This matters more than anything else here, so it comes first. Once you publish a piece, these are visible to anyone on the internet, signed in or not:

• your pen name, your @handle, your picture and your bio;
• the pieces you publish: their title, description, the excerpt you chose to show, the documents you attached, and the cover;
• how many people follow you, and how many liked a piece.

These are not:

• your email address. It is never shown to anyone;
• which pieces you liked, and who you follow. The counts are public. The names behind them are visible only to the people directly concerned, and the database enforces that, not the interface;
• anything you started and did not publish. An unfinished piece stays in your own browser and is erased when you sign out.

What eko collects

Your email address, because it is how you get back in. If you sign in with Google, eko also receives the display name and profile picture you have set there, and uses them as your starting pen name and picture. You can change both. Nothing is ever taken from the address itself.

What you publish, and the files you attach to it. Images and documents you upload are stored so eko can serve them. A document attached to a published piece is public, like the piece.

Your likes, your follows, and the last time you looked at your Following wall. That is the minimum those features need in order to mean anything.

That is the whole list. There is no analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixel and no third-party script of any kind. eko does not measure what you read, how long you stayed, or where you came from. You can check this yourself: the site loads no code from anyone else's server.

Why

To run the thing you asked for: an account you can return to, and a gallery that remembers whose work is whose. Nothing here is collected to be sold, profiled or traded, and eko has no commercial arrangement in which your data is the payment.

Who else touches it

Running eko needs a few outside services. They act only on eko's instructions and are bound by contract to do nothing else with what they hold:

• a company that serves the pages;
• a company that holds the database and the uploaded files;
• a company that delivers the sign-in codes. It sees the address a code is going to, and nothing else.

If you would like to know exactly which companies these are, ask at hello@ekogalerie.com and you will be told.

If you choose to sign in with Google, then Google knows you signed in to eko, under their own policy.

Where it lives

The database, the files and the mail server are all in Ireland (European Union). Your data stays in the European Union.

How long

For as long as you have an account. You can delete it yourself, from the bottom of your own page, without asking anyone: it takes the account, the profile, the pieces and the files you uploaded. If you would rather we did it, write to hello@ekogalerie.com.

One honest caveat. Something published publicly may have been copied, quoted or archived elsewhere while it was up. Deleting it here removes it from here, and nobody can promise more than that.

Cookies

eko sets one kind of cookie: the one that keeps you signed in. It is strictly necessary, since without it you would be signed out on every click, and that is why there is no consent banner to click through. There are no advertising or measurement cookies, so there is nothing to refuse.

eko also keeps one thing in your browser rather than on a server: a piece you are still working on. Signing out clears it.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask to see what is held about you, to correct it, to delete it, to receive a copy in a portable form, or to object to a use of it. Write to hello@ekogalerie.com and you will get an answer within a month. If the answer does not satisfy you, you can complain to the CNIL, the French data protection authority, at cnil.fr.

Children

eko is not for people under 15.

Changes

If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. Anything that meaningfully affects you will be announced in the application rather than slipped in quietly.

This page describes eko as it actually works today. It was written by the people who built it rather than by a law firm. If something in it is wrong or unclear, say so at hello@ekogalerie.com and it gets fixed.