The Surface File

Privacy

This site gathers nothing about the people who read it. What follows describes the technology in use, not a promise about how data will be handled.

Nothing to Submit

The site takes no submissions of any kind. The pages are documents to be read, and nothing more interactive than that.

Leaving This Site

Where a page links elsewhere, the destination is beyond this site's control. Once a reader follows one of those links they are on a site with its own practices, and nothing described here applies to it.

Hosting and Server Requests

The site is delivered through a hosting provider whose infrastructure sees each request. Any web server sees the technical particulars of a request in order to answer it, and the provider retains those records briefly. Nothing from that layer is passed to the site or used to identify a reader.

No Cookies

The site sets no cookies and writes nothing to browser storage. A reader arrives, reads a document, and leaves nothing behind.

Changes to This Page

This is a description of a build, so it is revised whenever the build is. A privacy page that has drifted from the site it describes is worse than none, so this one is kept in step.

No Tracking

There is no analytics package on this site. There is no measurement layer, so there is no record of an individual reader to protect in the first place.