What we keep, and what we never see.
m3ek is a desktop workbench. Your research, your drafts and the threads you open live on the computer you installed it on. This page says exactly what that means, including where it stops being true.
The only thing that reaches us
A paid product has to know who paid, so there is one connection back to m3ek.com and it carries one kind of thing.
- Your email address, and a name if you gave one.
- Which plan you are on and when it renews.
- Sign-in codes, which expire.
- Whether you agreed to optional analytics.
- Reddit threads, comments or usernames you looked at.
- The communities you researched.
- Your drafts, except the one thread you send for a Pro draft.
- Your model API keys, if you bring your own.
The Pro plan is not built yet. When it is, the one thread you selected will pass through us so the model call can be made and metered, used as context for that draft and nothing else. We will run it under a model-provider configuration that contractually forbids training on it, and we will say so here before it goes live rather than after.
What happens when you use it
- You describe what you sellA link or a sentence. It is stored in a file on your machine, and every other part of the app reads from it.
- It reads the community rulesEach community's own posted rules, classified into four answers. Where a rule says nothing, the answer is unknown, never permission.
- You pick one threadNot a list, not a queue. One conversation, chosen by you, shown with a link back to the original Reddit page.
- It drafts a replyAgainst that community's rules. It counts the links, checks the disclosure, and measures how far in your product first appears.
- You post itFrom your own account, in your own browser. There is no endpoint in m3ek that submits anything to Reddit.
- You can check it laterPaste the permalink back and it reports whether the comment is still visible to a visitor. Reddit does not notify you when it is not.
Reddit's content stays Reddit's
m3ek has no value without Reddit and is not an alternative to it. Everything it shows you is a pointer back to the real thing.
- Attributed and linked. A thread appears with its community, its author and a link to its original Reddit page.
- Not a dataset. Nothing you read is accumulated into a store that we could search, sell, or license on to anyone.
- Deleted means gone. We will not go on showing content after its author, a moderator or Reddit has removed it.
- Nothing is kept longer than it is used. Pages the workbench fetches are cached on your own machine for at most a day — six hours for listings, twenty-four for a community's rules — and deleted when that passes. The check on whether your own comment survived is never cached at all.
- No profiling. Usernames are never collected into lists, scored, or used for lead generation or outreach.
- No endorsement implied. m3ek is not operated by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Reddit.
Where we are, said plainly
m3ek is pre-launch, built by two people in Berlin. We are approaching Reddit to confirm which access methods are permitted for a commercial product, and we are prepared to move to whichever method Reddit designates.
That is why this page describes what we keep rather than how the reading is done: the second part is a conversation we would rather have with Reddit before we put it in marketing copy. We would rather build this with them than around them.
What is settled either way: m3ek never posts, votes, messages or signs in on your behalf, never creates or manages Reddit accounts, and will not help anyone around a moderator's decision. Moderator decisions are final, and what you publish is yours.
Your choices
Analytics is optional and off until you allow it; you can change that at any time from the footer of any page. You can ask us what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted, and you do not need an account to ask. The privacy policy has the retention periods and the address to write to.