Read in private

Kept in your browser only

• A random reader token in your browser's local storage, so a heart you give is counted once. It is not linked to your name or email. The server only keeps a scrambled (hashed) form of it.
• Your reading preferences: text size, font, light setting and where you stopped reading. They stay on this device and are never sent to us.
• That you confirmed you are 18 or older, so the notice does not ask again on this device.

Clearing your browser data removes all of this.

Kept on the server

• Comments you post, with the display name you chose (or Anonymous). Comments are public once published.
• A hashed form of your IP address with each comment, used only to stop spam and abuse. It is deleted after 30 days.
• Simple page counts (which page was opened and when) with no cookies and nothing that identifies you.

What we never do

• No advertising or analytics trackers, and no third-party cookies.
• No selling or sharing of reader data.
• No accounts, so there is no profile of you to keep.

Leaving the site

Links to social media or a tip provider take you to another website with its own privacy rules. Nothing is passed along when you follow them.

Questions or removal

If you want a comment you wrote taken down, reach the author through the social links on the About page and say which comment it is.