Read this before you write
What anonymity here actually means
Written plainly, including the parts that are not reassuring.
What an anonymous post hides
Your handle never leaves the server. When you tick anonymous, the author is removed from the data before the page is built — not hidden with styling. Someone reading the page source finds nothing, because nothing was sent.
It stays off your profile. Anonymous reviews are not listed on your public profile, in search, or in the mobile app. Only you can see your own.
Employers never see it. A claimed employer page shows the review and lets the company reply. It does not show who wrote it, and there is no paid tier, no plan and no favour that changes that.
What it cannot hide
What only you would know. If you are the only night-shift supervisor at a 40-person warehouse and you write about the night shift, your employer can work it out. That is not a leak — it is arithmetic. Write about what happened, not about which shift you were on.
Direct messages. Messages are private, not anonymous. Whoever you write to sees your handle. The interface says so on every conversation.
Your own screenshots. Most identifications happen because someone shared their own review in a group chat that reached the wrong person.
What we hold about you
An email address for signing in. A password, stored as a bcrypt hash. Your handle. Whatever you chose to put on your profile. The reviews you wrote, linked to your account so you can edit or delete them.
We do not store your IP address or browser fingerprint against a review. Rate limiting counts requests without keeping a log of who made them. Verification evidence is held separately, visible only to moderators, and deleted once a decision is made.
The reason for all of that is simple: a court can only order us to hand over what we have. So we try not to have it.
If someone comes asking
We never hand over anything voluntarily. Not to an employer, not to their lawyer, not to a recruiter, not for money.
If a court with jurisdiction orders disclosure, we do three things, in this order: we tell you, so you can get your own advice and contest it; we ask the court to set the order aside; and we disclose only the specific thing ordered, never more.
If we are legally barred from telling you, we say publicly that it happened, in numbers, in our transparency report.
How to write something that cannot be traced back
Describe what happened, not who you are.
Avoid the detail that only one person could know — the exact date of your grievance meeting, the specific machine you operate, the one client you handled.
Wait a few weeks after leaving, if you can. A review that appears the day someone resigns points at them.
Do not use your work device or work network to write it.
Turn on two-step sign-in. The most common way an account is read by the wrong person is a reused password, not a court order.
The rules that go with this are in the community rules, and the mechanics are in how it works.