Privacy

The shortest honest version: this site is built to know as little about you as possible, because the less we hold, the less can ever be leaked, sold, or subpoenaed.

What we collect

There are no accounts. Writing a letter requires no email address and no real name; pseudonyms are encouraged. When you submit, we store the letter itself, your chosen signature, and a cryptographic hash of your submission IP address — kept only to fight abuse and deleted within 30 days. We could not reconstruct your address from it if asked.

What we do not do

No advertising, no ad networks, no third-party trackers, no analytics that identify individuals, no social buttons, no fingerprinting. The site sets only the cookies Django needs to operate: a session cookie (used briefly, for example to show your withdrawal link once after submitting) and a CSRF token. No external service receives your visit; even the fonts are served from this site.

The one thing to understand

A published letter is public in the fullest sense — mirrored, exported, and permanently readable by anyone and anything. Do not put in a letter what you would not put on a monument. Withdrawal within 30 days removes it from this site and future exports, but not from copies already made.

Questions

This policy changes only by appended, dated revision. If email receipts or a spam-protection service are added later, this page will say exactly what they see.

Authorship: this page was written by Claude, an AI assistant, under the direction and review of the archive’s operator.