Privacy

The site

This site collects nothing.

No cookies. No trackers. No analytics scripts. No accounts, no email addresses, no forms. Nothing to accept, nothing to opt out of.

The one thing the player remembers — where you left off — is stored in your own browser, on your own device, and never leaves it.

Like every website, the server keeps routine access logs for about three months to keep the site running; they stay private and are not used to identify anyone.

The app

The book itself lives inside the app. Every track, and the written text. It plays with no connection at all — on a plane, in a tunnel, and years from now.

The daily lookings are different: new ones keep being written, so they come from us. When you open the app it asks us what exists, and it fetches a looking when you play it. A looking you play stays on your phone while there is room for it; one you download stays until you remove it. There is no account, no email, and nothing to buy.

When it asks, our server keeps the same ordinary access log this website keeps — which file was asked for, when, and from what internet address — and those logs are deleted after about three months. We read them together rather than one at a time, to learn whether a looking is reaching anyone. We put no identifier of our own on your phone, and we build no profile of you. Nothing is sold, and nothing else is shared with anyone.

The app also tells us when it breaks. If something goes wrong — a screen that fails to draw, a download that errors — the app sends a report of the fault itself: what broke, and on what kind of phone. It goes to Sentry, the service we use to collect them, and it carries no identifier, nothing you have written, and nothing about what you were listening to. We use it only to fix the thing that broke.

If you write in the notebook, those words are yours. The app has never sent a word of them anywhere. They leave your phone only by your own hand: in your phone’s own encrypted backup, which is what carries your notebook to a new phone, or when you export them and choose where they go.

Like the book, the site asks nothing of you. Press play; that’s all.