Privacy

I like being able to read an article without introducing myself first. You can do that here, too.

When you read

You can read every article without an account. I keep no list of readers. These are plain HTML pages, with no Google Analytics, visitor counters, or other tracking tools installed. There are no ads or advertising links. The pages themselves set no cookies.

Hostinger hosts this website and its email. Its servers may record the page requested, the time, and an IP address in technical logs used to run and troubleshoot the service.

When you write

If you email me at contact@eldersatthecitygates.org, your message and return address arrive in the website mailbox at Hostinger. I use your address to reply. I don’t add it to a mailing list, sell it, or pass it along to others.

I keep emails about article reprints as a record of permission and publication. For ordinary correspondence, I aim to clean out the mailbox about once a month. At each cleanup, I permanently delete any conversation whose most recent message is more than 30 days old. That includes your messages and my replies, wherever they’re filed. A new reply starts the 30 days over for that conversation. I finish by emptying Spam and Trash.

On the rare occasion I keep a paper copy of a message, I remove the sender’s email address from the copy.

I figure a note you send me deserves an answer and can usually skip the part where it lives on the internet forever.