Privacy

Coastal Seam Notes collects no personal information from readers. That is a description of how the site is built rather than a policy commitment, and the sections below explain what it means in practice.

Hosting and Server Requests

Pages are served by a commercial hosting provider. That request data belongs to the hosting provider, is held briefly for operational reasons, and never reaches the publication itself.

No Forms or Accounts

There is no form, no comment box, no newsletter signup and no account. There is no mechanism through which a reader could submit personal information even deliberately.

No Cookies

No cookie is set by this site. A reader arrives, reads a document, and leaves nothing behind.

No Tracking

There is no analytics package on this site. Readership is simply unknown here, which is unusual on the modern web and entirely deliberate.

Links to Other Sites

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.

Changes to This Page

The account given here tracks the actual construction of the site. A privacy page that has drifted from the site it describes is worse than none, so this one is kept in step.