Privacy policy

What we keep

• Friday refill waitlist. Your email address and the date you joined. Nothing is mailed yet, and the address stays on the list until you ask us to remove it.
• Contact messages. The name you give (optional), your email address and your message, with the time it arrived. Messages are deleted within twelve months.
• Abuse counters. The server counts recent sign-ups and messages per network address in memory to stop floods. Nothing is written down, and the counts clear within an hour.

We use these records only for the waitlist and for answering you, and we never sell or share them. Our server keeps no record of the pages you read; the view totals on stories are anonymous.

What your browser remembers

Local storage keeps your light or dark theme and the reader you chose in the "Reading as" bar, so the site opens sorted for you next time. Staff who sign in keep a session token there too. Nothing in it is sent to us, and clearing the site's data wipes it.

Services that handle your requests

• Cloudflare stands in front of the site and passes every request, including your network address, to our server. It also adds a Web Analytics script that counts visits without cookies.
• Google Fonts supplies the typefaces, so your browser fetches the font files from Google, which sees that request.

Each follows its own privacy policy. The site runs no advertising, social or tracking scripts beyond these.

Your choices

Ask to see, correct or delete what we hold about you through the contact form, writing from the address concerned. No reason is needed. Changes to this policy update the date at the top.