Privacy

This note is current for the library as it stands. There are no ads and no ad pixels.

The weekly letter

If you type an email into a signup form, we store that address, the page you signed up from, and the time. The form talks to a placeholder inside this site. It does not send the address to Kit, Beehiiv, or any other mail company, because no provider key is connected. When a provider is connected, this page will name it.

Comments

A comment asks for a name, an email, and the note itself. The name and the note can appear on the episode after a person approves them. The email is kept for the moderator and is not published. Until approval, the comment is visible only in the private queue. Spam is held back by a filter before that queue. A small arithmetic check and a hidden field are there to slow automated posts.

For now those records live in files on the machine running the site. That is a stand-in for a database. On a hosted deployment those files are not a durable store. Treat them as a working queue, not as an archive.

What we don’t collect

We do not run a tracker for ads. We do not sell addresses. We do not ask you to sign in with another account in order to read or to comment.

Deletion

A moderator can delete a comment or a signup from the queue. A public mailbox on the domain is not open yet. Until it is, deletion is done from that private queue.