privacy

This site is run by Arkyvolt B.V., Keizersgracht 520, 1017 EK Amsterdam, the Netherlands (KvK 60270381). For anything about your data, write to gideon@arkyvolt.com.

The site sets no cookies for its readers, and so asks for none. The one exception is a room: if Gideon gave you a pass and you open your room with it, one cookie keeps it open for seven days from the moment you open it. It holds no more than which room is open and until when, it is sent only to the room itself, never to the rest of the site, and locking the room removes it; a new pass for the room ends it too. What the site remembers for you stays in your own browser: the paper you chose, your bag and delivery address, a draft of a word you are coining, what you have liked and read, whether you have seen the arrival, and whether a room is open for you (so the home page can lead you back to it). None of it is sent to us. Clearing the site’s data in your browser removes it.

To count a like once, and a read once a day, the server keeps a code made from your IP address and browser, mixed with a secret only the server knows. It cannot be turned back into your address, and says nothing about who you are. For a read the code changes every day and is deleted after 25 hours; for a like it is kept as long as the like itself. The counts themselves are anonymous. To keep anyone from flooding the counts, the server also keeps a one-way code of your IP address alone for one minute. We do this because counting fairly is in our legitimate interest (GDPR article 6(1)(f)).

To see how many people visit, which pages they read and how quickly the pages load, we use Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights. They use no cookies, keep no IP addresses and build no profile of you. Vercel, which also hosts this site, sees your IP address to answer your browser, as every web server does, and keeps it only briefly for security. Vercel is based in the United States and processes this data under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.

The song in the colophon is fetched from Gideon’s Spotify by our server, and its cover is served from this site; the weather where Gideon is comes from Open-Meteo, also asked by our server. Your browser never contacts either.

A coined entry is written into its link and lives there: who coined it, the sentence and the emoji are in the link and nowhere else. When it is first sent, seen or printed, our server keeps the word itself, its part of speech and its first sense, with its number in the dictionary and the day. Gideon reads each one; the ones he lets in may appear, to anyone, among the words a shared entry lands between. To have a word taken out, write to gideon@arkyvolt.com with the word or its number. To stop one word being coined too often from one place, the server counts coinings per visitor for a day, as a one-way code, the same as a read.

A room holds what Gideon leaves for someone: a message, documents and photographs, kept in Vercel’s storage in Frankfurt, readable only through the room, each handed out by a link that works for five minutes. A pass is kept only as a one-way code. To stop a pass being guessed, the server counts sign-in attempts per address, as a one-way code, for fifteen minutes.

If you write to us, we keep your message and address for as long as we need to answer you and keep our records. The shop does not take orders yet; before it does, this page will say what an order keeps (name, address, email) and who handles the payment.

You can ask to see, correct or delete what we hold about you, or object to its use: write to gideon@arkyvolt.com. You can also complain to the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.