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.

Links to Other Sites

Outbound links appear throughout the guides. Once a reader follows one of those links they are on a site with its own practices, and nothing described here applies to it.

No Cookies

Nothing is written to the device a reader arrives on. There is no state kept between one visit and the next.

If the Site Changes

This is a description of a build, so it is revised whenever the build is. Should a feature ever be added that handles data differently, this text is revised at the same time.

No Analytics

The pages carry no analytics, no tag manager and no advertising pixel. Readership is simply unknown here, which is unusual on the modern web and entirely deliberate.

No Sign-In

There is no form, no comment box, no newsletter signup and no account. The pages are documents to be read, and nothing more interactive than that.

Hosting and Server Requests

Serving a page necessarily involves a server receiving a 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.