diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index dd7324d..bfd7cb3 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -7,12 +7,32 @@ Changelog for Isso
 - Nothing changed yet.
 
 
-0.9.6 (unreleased)
+0.9.7 (unreleased)
 ------------------
 
 - Nothing changed yet.
 
 
+0.9.6 (2014-08-18)
+------------------
+
+- remember name, email and website in localStorage, #119
+
+- add option to hide voting feature, #115
+
+    data-isso-vote="true|false"
+
+- remove email field from JSON responses
+
+  This is a quite serious issue. For the identicon, an expensive hash is used
+  to avoid the leakage of personal information like a real email address. A
+  `git blame` reveals, the email has been unintenionally exposed since the very
+  first release of Isso :-/
+
+  The testsuite now contains a dedicated test to prevent this error in the
+  future.
+
+
 0.9.5 (2014-08-10)
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/docs/configuration/client.rst b/docs/docs/configuration/client.rst
index b67622f..9f465db 100644
--- a/docs/docs/configuration/client.rst
+++ b/docs/docs/configuration/client.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ preferably in the script tag which embeds the JS:
             data-isso-avatar="true"
             data-isso-avatar-bg="#f0f0f0"
             data-isso-avatar-fg="#9abf88 #5698c4 #e279a3 #9163b6 ..."
+            data-isso-vote="true"
             src="/prefix/js/embed.js"></script>
 
 Furthermore you can override the automatic title detection inside
@@ -88,6 +89,11 @@ scheme is based in `this color palette <http://colrd.com/palette/19308/>`_.
 Multiple colors must be separated by space. If you use less than eight colors
 and not a multiple of 2, the color distribution is not even.
 
+data-isso-vote
+--------------
+
+Enable or disable voting feature on the client side.
+
 data-isso-id
 ------------
 
diff --git a/isso/css/isso.css b/isso/css/isso.css
index eef6b81..b0ed6d1 100644
--- a/isso/css/isso.css
+++ b/isso/css/isso.css
@@ -127,10 +127,11 @@
     color: #111111 !important;
     text-shadow: #aaaaaa 0 0 1px !important;
 }
-.isso-comment > div.text-wrapper > .isso-comment-footer a.reply,
-.isso-comment > div.text-wrapper > .isso-comment-footer a.edit,
-.isso-comment > div.text-wrapper > .isso-comment-footer a.cancel,
-.isso-comment > div.text-wrapper > .isso-comment-footer a.delete {
+.isso-comment > div.text-wrapper > .isso-comment-footer > a {
+    position: relative;
+    top: .2em;
+}
+.isso-comment > div.text-wrapper > .isso-comment-footer > a + a {
     padding-left: 1em;
 }
 .isso-comment > div.text-wrapper > .isso-comment-footer .votes {
diff --git a/isso/js/app/config.js b/isso/js/app/config.js
index 043cdb4..bae5b77 100644
--- a/isso/js/app/config.js
+++ b/isso/js/app/config.js
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ define(function() {
         "avatar": true,
         "avatar-bg": "#f0f0f0",
         "avatar-fg": ["#9abf88", "#5698c4", "#e279a3", "#9163b6",
-                      "#be5168", "#f19670", "#e4bf80", "#447c69"].join(" ")
+                      "#be5168", "#f19670", "#e4bf80", "#447c69"].join(" "),
+        "vote": true
     };
 
     var js = document.getElementsByTagName("script");
diff --git a/isso/js/app/dom.js b/isso/js/app/dom.js
index 364ece0..6338d1f 100644
--- a/isso/js/app/dom.js
+++ b/isso/js/app/dom.js
@@ -39,31 +39,31 @@ define(function() {
         });
     };
 
-    window.Element.prototype.toggle = function(type, on, off) {
+    window.Element.prototype.toggle = function(type, a, b) {
         /*
         Toggle between two internal states on event :param type: e.g. to
-        cycle form visibility. Callback :param on: is called on first event,
-        :param off: next time.
+        cycle form visibility. Callback :param a: is called on first event,
+        :param b: next time.
 
         You can skip to the next state without executing the callback with
         `toggler.next()`. You can prevent a cycle when you call `toggler.wait()`
         during an event.
          */
 
-        function Toggle(el, on, off) {
+        function Toggle(el, a, b) {
             this.state = false;
             this.el = el;
-            this.on = on;
-            this.off = off;
+            this.a = a;
+            this.b = b;
         }
 
         Toggle.prototype.next = function next() {
             if (! this.state) {
                 this.state = true;
-                this.on(this);
+                this.a(this);
             } else {
                 this.state = false;
-                this.off(this);
+                this.b(this);
             }
         };
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ define(function() {
             this.state = ! this.state;
         };
 
-        var toggler = new Toggle(this, on, off);
+        var toggler = new Toggle(this, a, b);
         this.on(type, function() {
             toggler.next();
         });
diff --git a/isso/js/app/isso.js b/isso/js/app/isso.js
index 168e3ea..ec97d63 100644
--- a/isso/js/app/isso.js
+++ b/isso/js/app/isso.js
@@ -7,7 +7,11 @@ define(["app/dom", "app/utils", "app/config", "app/api", "app/jade", "app/i18n",
 
     var Postbox = function(parent) {
 
-        var el = $.htmlify(jade.render("postbox"));
+        var el = $.htmlify(jade.render("postbox", {
+            "author":  JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("author")),
+            "email":   JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("email")),
+            "website": JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("website"))
+        }));
 
         // callback on success (e.g. to toggle the reply button)
         el.onsuccess = function() {};
@@ -29,16 +33,19 @@ define(["app/dom", "app/utils", "app/config", "app/api", "app/jade", "app/i18n",
                 return;
             }
 
+            var author = $("[name=author]", el).value || null,
+                email = $("[name=email]", el).value || null,
+                website = $("[name=website]", el).value || null;
+
+            localStorage.setItem("author", JSON.stringify(author));
+            localStorage.setItem("email", JSON.stringify(email));
+            localStorage.setItem("website", JSON.stringify(website));
+
             api.create($("#isso-thread").getAttribute("data-isso-id"), {
-                author: $("[name=author]", el).value || null,
-                email: $("[name=email]", el).value || null,
-                website: $("[name=website]", el).value || null,
+                author: author, email: email, website: website,
                 text: utils.text($(".textarea", el).innerHTML),
                 parent: parent || null
             }).then(function(comment) {
-                $("[name=author]", el).value = "";
-                $("[name=email]", el).value = "";
-                $("[name=website]", el).value = "";
                 $(".textarea", el).innerHTML = "";
                 $(".textarea", el).blur();
                 insert(comment, true);
@@ -144,31 +151,33 @@ define(["app/dom", "app/utils", "app/config", "app/api", "app/jade", "app/i18n",
             }
         );
 
-        // update vote counter, but hide if votes sum to 0
-        var votes = function(value) {
-            var span = $("span.votes", footer);
-            if (span === null && value !== 0) {
-                footer.prepend($.new("span.votes", value));
-            } else {
-                if (value === 0) {
-                    span.remove();
+        if (config.vote) {
+            // update vote counter, but hide if votes sum to 0
+            var votes = function (value) {
+                var span = $("span.votes", footer);
+                if (span === null && value !== 0) {
+                    footer.prepend($.new("span.votes", value));
                 } else {
-                    span.textContent = value;
+                    if (value === 0) {
+                        span.remove();
+                    } else {
+                        span.textContent = value;
+                    }
                 }
-            }
-        };
+            };
 
-        $("a.upvote", footer).on("click", function() {
-            api.like(comment.id).then(function(rv) {
-                votes(rv.likes - rv.dislikes);
+            $("a.upvote", footer).on("click", function () {
+                api.like(comment.id).then(function (rv) {
+                    votes(rv.likes - rv.dislikes);
+                });
             });
-        });
 
-        $("a.downvote", footer).on("click", function() {
-            api.dislike(comment.id).then(function(rv) {
-                votes(rv.likes - rv.dislikes);
+            $("a.downvote", footer).on("click", function () {
+                api.dislike(comment.id).then(function (rv) {
+                    votes(rv.likes - rv.dislikes);
+                });
             });
-        });
+        }
 
         $("a.edit", footer).toggle("click",
             function(toggler) {
diff --git a/isso/js/app/text/comment.jade b/isso/js/app/text/comment.jade
index cbbb245..faa6618 100644
--- a/isso/js/app/text/comment.jade
+++ b/isso/js/app/text/comment.jade
@@ -23,13 +23,14 @@ div(class='isso-comment' id='isso-#{comment.id}')
                 != comment.text
 
         div(class='isso-comment-footer')
-            if comment.likes - comment.dislikes != 0
-                span(class='votes') #{comment.likes - comment.dislikes}
-            a(class='upvote' href='#')
-                i!= svg['arrow-up']
-            span(class='spacer') |
-            a(class='downvote' href='#')
-                i!= svg['arrow-down']
+            if conf.vote
+                if comment.likes - comment.dislikes != 0
+                    span(class='votes') #{comment.likes - comment.dislikes}
+                a(class='upvote' href='#')
+                    != svg['arrow-up']
+                span(class='spacer') |
+                a(class='downvote' href='#')
+                    != svg['arrow-down']
             a(class='reply' href='#') #{i18n('comment-reply')}
             a(class='edit' href='#') #{i18n('comment-edit')}
             a(class='delete' href='#') #{i18n('comment-delete')}
diff --git a/isso/js/app/text/postbox.jade b/isso/js/app/text/postbox.jade
index a2428de..0a85ae1 100644
--- a/isso/js/app/text/postbox.jade
+++ b/isso/js/app/text/postbox.jade
@@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ div(class='isso-postbox')
                 = i18n('postbox-text')
         section(class='auth-section')
             p(class='input-wrapper')
-                input(type='text' name='author' placeholder=i18n('postbox-author'))
+                input(type='text' name='author' placeholder=i18n('postbox-author')
+                      value=author !== null ? '#{author}' : '')
             p(class='input-wrapper')
-                input(type='email' name='email' placeholder=i18n('postbox-email'))
+                input(type='email' name='email' placeholder=i18n('postbox-email')
+                      value=email != null ? '#{email}' : '')
             p(class='input-wrapper')
-                input(type='text' name='website' placeholder=i18n('postbox-website'))
+                input(type='text' name='website' placeholder=i18n('postbox-website')
+                      value=website != null ? '#{website}' : '')
             p(class='post-action')
                 input(type='submit' value=i18n('postbox-submit'))
diff --git a/isso/views/comments.py b/isso/views/comments.py
index c4a2058..0272fa3 100644
--- a/isso/views/comments.py
+++ b/isso/views/comments.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def xhr(func):
 
 class API(object):
 
-    FIELDS = set(['id', 'parent', 'text', 'author', 'website', 'email',
+    FIELDS = set(['id', 'parent', 'text', 'author', 'website',
                   'mode', 'created', 'modified', 'likes', 'dislikes', 'hash'])
 
     # comment fields, that can be submitted