Nobody has an account here
No login, no profile, no comments, nothing you type is stored anywhere I control, the newsletter box is the one form on the site.
Three analytics scripts, none of them sets a cookie
GoatCounter counts page views off a copy of count.js I serve myself rather
than someone else's CDN, no cookie, and per view it sends the path, referrer, title,
screen width, query string, and a bot guess. Add #toggle-goatcounter to any
URL here and your views stop counting. The other two are Vercel's, Web Analytics and
Speed Insights, same-origin through /_vercel/ and cookieless, their
privacy policy covers their end.
There is no cookie banner because nothing here sets one.
The newsletter, and what Buttondown gets
Your address goes to Buttondown with whichever category tags you left on, under their privacy policy, and I use it for one weekly digest of what got added here, drafted automatically and sent by hand. Every email has an unsubscribe link, or mail me and I will take you off. The IP rate limit on the form lives in memory for sixty seconds, never stored.
The two feed functions read my stuff, not yours
One reads my public Letterboxd profile, the other my own Apple Music history for the cards on /now, neither takes input from you or stores anything about you.
What loads from off this domain
The one video embed is click-to-play, so nothing loads from Google until you click but
the thumbnail off img.youtube.com, and the player then comes from
www.youtube-nocookie.com. Posters come from Letterboxd's image host and
album art from Apple's, plain image requests that see your IP. Links out are other
people's sites and rules.
What your browser keeps
One sessionStorage key, sw_boot_seen, set the first time the boot animation
plays so it stops replaying, plus the GoatCounter opt-out flag if you set it, and that is
the lot.
The apps have their own policies
This page covers the website only.
If any of this turns out to be wrong
If this page and the site disagree, mail me at sigwrench@gmail.com and I will fix whichever one is wrong, the page or the site.