Privacy notice: the Patreon sign-in

Signing in with Patreon on ramapani.com sets one cookie on the device, keeps nothing on the server, and can be ended at any time by signing out.

What is asked of Patreon

The sign-in asks Patreon for two things only: identity (the Patreon user id and the name shown on Patreon) and memberships (which tiers of Ramapani, if any, the account is entitled to). It does not ask for an email address, posts, messages, payment details or memberships of other creators, and Patreon does not pass them on.

What is kept, and where

The answer is kept in a single cookie named rp_patreon on the device that signed in. It holds the Patreon user id, the first name Patreon shows, the membership level (Public, Free, Inner-Light or Radiance), the time the level was last checked, and an encrypted key that lets the level be checked again. The cookie is signed by the site so that it cannot be altered, is marked HttpOnly so that scripts cannot read it, and lasts thirty days from the last check.

Nothing is written to the server: no account is created, no list of members is kept, no email address is stored, and no record is made of which pages were visited while signed in.

Checking the level again

While signed in, the membership level is checked with Patreon once a day, so that a change of tier on Patreon reaches the site within a day. The check uses the encrypted key in the cookie and asks Patreon for the same two things as the sign-in. If Patreon cannot be reached, the last answer is trusted for seven days and then the sign-in ends.

Ending the sign-in

Signing out, from the membership page or the site menu, deletes the cookie, and nothing about the sign-in remains on the device. The sign-in can also be revoked on Patreon, under Settings, Apps, which ends it at the next daily check. Clearing the browser's cookies has the same effect.

Member downloads and supporter features

The supporter features of the apps and the member downloads are handed out only to a device whose cookie shows Inner-Light or Radiance. The request carries no more than the cookie; no other information is collected when a file is fetched.

Who is responsible

The site is run by Ram, trading as Ramapani, in the United Kingdom. Questions about this notice can be sent through the about page. Patreon's own handling of accounts and payments is governed by Patreon's privacy policy.

This notice covers the sign-in only. The site's privacy & cookies page covers everything else on ramapani.com: server logs, the mailing list, the contact form, what the apps keep on the device, and the rights that go with all of it.

This notice was written on 2 November 2026 and applies from that date.

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