Privacy Policy

Your data is not the product. Your consciousness is not for sale. Here is exactly what we collect, why, and what we don't do with it.

Last Updated: September 2026

What We Collect

There are no accounts on this site, no sign-in, no newsletter, no comments, and nothing to buy. We collect only what running a public website produces.

Traffic

Cloudflare serves the site and records aggregate traffic: which pages are requested, from which countries, and how many times. We look at totals, not at individuals.

Podcast and Audio Plays

When you play a reading or an episode, our podcast service logs the play with the player's user agent and country. No name, no email, no account.

Reading Position

Where you left off in the serialised book is stored in your own browser. It never leaves your device and we cannot see it.

Communications

Messages you send us by email.

How We Use Your Information

To keep the site running: serving pages and protecting the site from automated abuse.
To see what is read: understanding which work resonates, in aggregate.
To respond to you: when you contact us.

What we don't do:

Sell your data to anyone, ever
Use your information for targeted advertising
Share your information with social media platforms
Build behavioral profiles

Data Protection

The site is a set of static pages served over encrypted connections (SSL/TLS) from Cloudflare. There is no account database, because there are no accounts.

No system is impenetrable, but the strongest protection here is structural: we don't collect what we don't need.

Your Rights

The only personal information we hold is what you send us by email. You may, at any time:

Access

Request a copy of the correspondence we hold from you.

Delete

Request that we delete it.

Object

Opt out of any processing you're uncomfortable with.

To exercise any of these rights, email support@theallunknowing.danielryancurtis.com. We honor these rights for all readers, regardless of where you live.

Cookies

We set no cookies of our own.

Your browser keeps your reading position and any display preferences locally, on your device.
Cloudflare may set a security cookie while it protects the site from automated traffic.
Embedded videos load only when you press play, and use YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode.

We do not use advertising cookies, cross-site tracking, or retargeting pixels.

Third-Party Services

Cloudflare: hosts and delivers the site, protects it, and provides aggregate analytics.
YouTube: some pages embed videos using YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode, which does not set tracking cookies unless you play the video.
Podcast apps: if you subscribe to the podcast in an app, that app processes your listening under its own policy.
Amazon: the printed book is sold by Amazon. Buying it happens on Amazon, under Amazon's policy.

Each service processes data under its own privacy policy. We choose services for necessity and privacy standards, not data harvesting.

Children's Privacy

This site is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13; if you believe a child has provided us information, email us and we will delete it.

Changes to This Policy

If we make material changes to this policy, we will post the update here with a new date.

Privacy Questions?

For privacy questions or to exercise your rights:

Email: support@theallunknowing.danielryancurtis.com