Privacy

What the site stores

• Page analytics. Umami counts which pages are viewed, the referring site, country, browser and device, and records anonymous page-speed measurements. It sets no cookie and keeps no personal data.
• Automated readers. Requests from AI agents and crawlers are logged so I can see how well the site serves them. So are requests for a page's Markdown version or for llms.txt. The log also keeps requests the site's security rules block or challenge, and requests for missing pages that the site's llms files list. Each entry holds the user agent, the page address, the referring site, the network and country, the time, and technical details such as the response status. No IP address is stored. An ordinary visit in a browser is only counted.
• Your email address, if you sign up for the book or essay newsletter, send feedback on an essay, or ask to read a book in beta. The newsletters and the feedback form email you a link first, and nothing starts until you use it. With your address the site keeps your name if you give one, the time, and the IP address and browser details of the request, as proof that you agreed. Feedback keeps your comment.
• Beta reading: what you add to your request, which chapters you download and the feedback you send. To protect unpublished chapters, the site also records the IP address and browser details each time you sign in, download or send feedback.
• Comments on a draft I shared with you: the name you give, the comment, the passage and the time. No email or IP address.

What it is used for

The book newsletter emails you when a milestone in the book lands, plus occasional letters about its writing. The essay newsletter emails you when a new essay is published. Feedback comes to me so I can read it and reply. Your address goes on no other list and is never used for marketing.

How long it is kept

• Newsletter addresses: until you unsubscribe, which any email lets you do in one click. After that the address is marked unsubscribed and nothing more is sent to it.
• A book newsletter signup or feedback you never confirm is deleted once its link expires. An unconfirmed essay newsletter signup is kept so a fresh link can be sent.
• Feedback, beta-reading records and draft comments: until you ask me to delete them.
• The automated-reader log: 90 days.

Cookies and where data lives

The site sets a cookie only when you sign in: as a beta reader, to review a draft, or to open a lesson or an admin page. Some of what you set or write, such as your theme, font size, margin notes and lesson progress, is kept only in your browser. What you give the site is stored with Cloudflare, which hosts the site and keeps its own short-lived access logs that I do not read. Email goes out through Resend. Email you send me stays in my inbox.

Your rights

Email contact@pramod.ch to see, correct or delete anything the site holds about you, and I will act within 30 days. The automated-reader log is the exception: it holds no email or IP address, so I cannot tell which entries are yours, and every entry is gone after 90 days. Under the GDPR and the Swiss FADP, what you give the site rests on your consent. Legitimate interest under the GDPR covers the automated-reader log and the IP address and browser details recorded each time a beta reader signs in, downloads or sends feedback. Under the FADP, the log follows the principles of lawful, proportionate and transparent processing.

Last updated 2026-10-26. Questions: contact@pramod.ch.