Privacy

When you read the site

Like any website, the web host keeps standard server logs. These record your IP address, the time, the page requested and your browser type. They are used for security and fault-finding, and the host keeps them under its own retention rules. The site does not use them to identify individual readers.

Ordinary reading sets no cookies. The site runs no analytics, no advertising and no social-media widgets.

Fonts

The typefaces (Cormorant Garamond and Literata) are stored on this site and sent from it, so your browser does not contact Google or any other company to display the pages. Nothing on the site is loaded from another company.

If you use the contact form

The form asks for a message, and optionally your name and email address. The message is sent by email to the person who runs the site and is used only to read and reply to you. It is not stored in the site's database. It stays in that mailbox until it is deleted, and it is not shared or added to any list.

To keep out spam robots, the form uses a hidden trap field and allows a few messages per hour from one connection. That limit relies on a one-way scrambled form (a hash) of your IP address, kept in a temporary file that is cleared within a few hours. The form sets no cookies.

The journal and admin pages

The journal is a private notebook for the person who runs the site, and the admin page is for editing the site's content. Neither is open to visitors, and neither collects anything about you. Signing in sets a session cookie, which is removed when the browser closes. These pages are marked so that search engines do not list them.

Your choices

If you have sent a message and would like to know what is held, or would like it deleted, use the contact page and say so. If you live in the UK or the European Union, you also have legal rights over your personal data, including the right to complain to your data-protection authority. This page describes the site in plain English and is not legal advice.

If the site starts to collect anything new, this page will be updated to say so, and the date at the top will change.