# Privacy, safety and your account This guide is for every signed-in user. It covers the safety and privacy controls you may need at some point: reporting a video or a comment, changing your cookie and analytics choice, downloading a copy of your data, deleting your account, and managing your email, password, and sessions. You end knowing where each control lives and what happens after you use it. ## Before you start - Sign in. Reporting while signed out opens a sign-in prompt titled **Sign in to report this**; after you sign in, the report dialog reopens by itself. - The account controls live under **Account** in the account menu, on the **Privacy & Data** and **Login & Security** tabs. ## Step 1 — Open the report dialog On a watch page, the action bar under the player ends with a flag button labeled **Report this video** (its tooltip reads **Report**). It is always there, whoever owns the film. For a comment, open the comment's **Comment actions** menu (the three dots) and choose **Report**. Both open the same dialog. [[img:privacy-safety-and-your-account/01-report-button.png|The flag button at the end of the action bar under the film, after Tip and Support.]] ## Step 2 — Fill in the report The dialog is titled **Report this video** or **Report this comment** and states the rule up front: **A human moderator reviews every report within 24 hours. Nothing is removed automatically.** Choose a **Reason** from the list; the field starts as **Select a reason…**. Add **Details (optional)**, up to 1000 characters, if it helps the moderator understand the problem. If you pick the copyright reason, a link to the DMCA policy appears under the form. Click **Submit report**; the button stays inactive until a reason is chosen. The recording stops before submitting. After a real submit you see **Report submitted**. If you already have an open report on the same item you see **Already reported** instead, and no second report is filed. **Cancel**, Escape, or a click outside the dialog closes it without sending anything. When the moderator decides, an email with the subject **Update on your Fluttercube report** tells you the outcome. [[img:privacy-safety-and-your-account/02-report-modal.png|The Report this video dialog with a reason chosen, the optional details box, and the Submit report button.]] ## Step 3 — Change your cookie and analytics choice On your first visit the **Your privacy choices** banner offers **Decline analytics** and **Accept analytics**. To change that choice later, open **Account** → **Privacy & Data**. The **Cookie & analytics consent** card at the top shows two rows: **Essential cookies** with an **Always on** tag and a locked switch, and **Analytics** with a switch you can flip. A status line under the rows records when the choice was last updated and where it was made; before any choice it says that analytics are off. Flipping the switch takes effect immediately and the card confirms with **Preference saved**. A choice made while signed in is stored on your account and applies in every browser you use. [[img:privacy-safety-and-your-account/03-privacy-consent.png|The Cookie & analytics consent card: Essential cookies locked on, the Analytics switch, and the status line under them.]] ## Step 4 — Export your data Below the consent card, the **Your data** card lists what the export contains as a row of chips: **Profile**, **Comments**, **Watch history**, **Tips & Support**, **Watchlist**, **Follows**, **Consent records**, and **Notification preferences**. Click **Export my data**. The button reads **Preparing your export…** while the file is built, then your browser downloads one JSON file named `fluttercube-data-export-.json`. The export covers your own account only. If it fails, an inline message says so and no partial file is written. [[img:privacy-safety-and-your-account/04-export-data.png|The Your data card with the eight bundle chips and the Export my data button.]] ## Step 5 — Delete your account The red-bordered **Delete account** card sits at the bottom of **Privacy & Data**. Click **Delete account** to open a dialog with a progress bar at the top and two steps for viewers, three for creators: 1. **Delete your account?**, whose subtitle counts the steps and ends in **What gets removed**, lists **Profile & @handle**, **Watch history**, **Watchlist**, **Follows**, **Notification preferences**, and **Comment authorship**, each tagged **removed**. A note under the list says that financial records the law requires are kept in de-identified form. Click **Continue**. 2. Creators only: **This closes your creator account** warns that published films and series are removed and the creator wallet is closed, and shows your confirmed wallet balance. A balance at or above the payout minimum has to settle through the monthly payout first, via a payout account connected in your **Wallet**. A smaller balance needs a ticked acknowledgment that it will be forfeited. 3. **Confirm deletion**: type `DELETE` in the field and click **Delete my account**. You are signed out and land on Home. The recording stops at the first step. **Cancel**, the close button, or Escape at any step closes the dialog with no change. Deletion is permanent. [[img:privacy-safety-and-your-account/05-delete-account-dialog.png|The first step of the delete dialog, listing what gets removed, with Cancel and Continue at the bottom.]] ## Step 6 — Manage your email, password, and sessions Open **Account** → **Login & Security**. Three cards, top to bottom: - **Email address** shows your **Current email** and a **New email** field. Click **Update email** and a confirmation link goes to the new address; the account email changes only once you confirm it there. Until then the card shows **Pending confirmation** with a **Resend link** button. - **Password** asks for **Current password**, **New password** (**At least 8 characters**), and **Confirm new password**; click **Change password**. The new password must differ from the current one. A **Password updated** toast confirms it and you stay signed in. - **Sessions**, further down the page than the screenshot shows, offers **Sign out of all devices**. It opens **Sign out of all devices?** with **Stay signed in** and **Sign out everywhere**; confirming ends every session, including the one you are using. [[img:privacy-safety-and-your-account/06-security-settings.png|The Login & Security tab with the Email address card at the top and the Password card under it.]] ## Good to know - Reports are routed and recorded, never judged by software. The 24-hour review window applies to every report, and you cannot open a second report on the same item while the first is pending. - Copyright claims follow the DMCA policy at `/legal/dmca` (footer link **DMCA**). The report dialog links to it when you choose the copyright reason. - Analytics are off by default. A choice made while signed out is stored in that browser only; a choice made while signed in is stored on the account and takes precedence. - The export is a machine-readable JSON file, generated on the spot, and never includes anyone else's data. - Deleting a creator account with money owed never forfeits it silently: the balance is paid out first, or you acknowledge the forfeiture explicitly. - The **Notifications** tab controls which optional emails you receive. Account and safety messages, such as a report outcome, are always sent. - Titles marked **16+** ask for your date of birth once, with no ID, and reuse the answer for every 16+ title. Accounts under 16 cannot watch them.