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What we keep,
and why.

The House counts what’s read and shared, and keeps the addresses people come from. Here is all of it, plainly.

No ads, no one buying it, and nobody else’s trackers on our pages. What’s written down stays on the House’s own server, and only the House’s stewards can look at it.

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When you visit

Signed in or not
01where from

Your address, and roughly where it is

Your IP address, and the country, region and city Cloudflare (who carries the House’s pages to you) places it in. Your browser and the kind of device: “Safari on an iPhone”.

02what you read

The pages, and how long

The pages you open, how long you actually read (only while the page is in view and you’re there), how far down a piece you got, and how long you listened to the narrator. And where you came from: the site that sent you, or the share link you followed.

03no cookie

No cookie of its own

A visit is your address and your browser, with no more than half an hour between pages. The only cookies are the ones that keep you signed in.

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When you share, join or sign in

Tied to you
01sharing

A share link of its own

A share button hands out an address of its own (it ends in ?s=), so the House can count who came in by it, and that it was you who passed it on.

02joining

Your addresses, with your account

Asking to join, joining and signing in note the address you did it from, with your account. On joining, your visits from the same place and browser in the month before become yours too.

03the door

Every try at the door

Each sign-in, and each one that fails, is noted with its address. A failed try never writes down the name typed unless it’s someone’s account (it might have been a password by mistake).

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Why, who sees it, and how long

180 days, then the range
01why

To see what’s read, and keep the House safe

So the writing goes where people are, and the pieces worth passing on get passed on. And to spot one person with many accounts, someone trying to get into an account that isn’t theirs, floods and robots.

02who

The stewards, no one else

Only the House’s stewards see it. It is never sold, never handed to advertisers, never sent to anyone else’s analytics. Cloudflare sees every visit as it carries it, under its own privacy policy.

03how long

180 days, then only the range

Full addresses are kept 180 days. After that only the range is kept (the first three parts of an address), with the counts.

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Never written down

What stays yours

A sheltered room, and your own pages: your aliases, your drafts, your settings, your wallet and your journal. Nothing that would say who is behind an alias.

Want to see what the House keeps about you, or have it taken away? Ask a steward.

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