What this site collects
Privacy
This site sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser, and loads no third-party embeds. It collects something in exactly five situations, and each one is set out below with what it is for, who processes it, how long it is kept, and how to have it removed.
The five collection paths
01
Coalition email address
- Purpose
- To send the reader briefings you asked for: new findings, changes in evidence status, corrections, and occasional notes about the books.
- Processor
- Kit (ConvertKit), a United States processor. A data processing agreement is in place. Your confirmation is recorded there as evidence of consent.
- Retention
- Until you unsubscribe.
- Deletion
- Every email carries an unsubscribe link, which removes you immediately. You can also write to us and ask for the record to be deleted outright.
02
Seed reader form — email address, name or handle, where you found the programme, and which file format you want
- Purpose
- To send you the draft, to send you the eight-question feedback form, and to know which invitation routes reached readers.
- Processor
- Kit, tagged as a seed participant. Same processor and same agreement as above.
- Retention
- Deleted when the seed programme ends — unless you also ticked the optional Coalition box, in which case your address stays on that list and the seed answers do not.
- Deletion
- Write to us at any time and it goes before the programme ends.
03
Correction submissions — the page, your description, and an email address only if you give one
- Purpose
- To check the correction against the source and fix the page. A correction is credited in that entry’s developments log only if you tell us you want to be.
- Processor
- Handled by us. The submission is delivered to the author and nowhere else; nothing about it goes to an advertising or profiling service.
- Retention
- Held while the correction is being processed. The dated log entry that results describes the correction, not the person who sent it, unless you consented to credit.
- Deletion
- Write to us and the submission record goes; the corrected page stays corrected.
04
Form security — the check that runs when you submit a form
- Purpose
- To tell a reader apart from a script, so the forms on this site are not filled in by bots.
- Processor
- Cloudflare Turnstile. It runs on the two form pages only, never in the site shell, and it sets no cookie for advertising or tracking.
- Retention
- Cloudflare holds the verification data under its own retention terms; we hold none of it.
- Deletion
- There is nothing here for us to delete. The check produces a pass or a fail and we keep the answer only long enough to accept or refuse the submission.
05
Aggregate site statistics
- Purpose
- To see which pages are read and which routes into the record work — page counts, not people.
- Processor
- Plausible Analytics, in its cookieless configuration. No cookie, no cross-site profile, no personal data.
- Retention
- Aggregate counts only. Nothing is stored that identifies a visitor, so there is no record of you to keep.
- Deletion
- Nothing identifies you, so there is nothing to remove. Any browser setting that blocks analytics is respected — the site does not work around one.
Not running yet. The site loads no measurement script at all until it is deployed publicly; this row describes what will be collected then, and nothing is being collected now.
What does not happen here
- No cookies are set, for any purpose.
- Nothing is written to your browser’s storage.
- No third-party embeds. No fonts, videos, players or scripts are loaded from anyone else — the one exception is the form security check above, and it runs on the form pages only.
- Nothing is sold, shared for advertising, or used to build a profile.
- Downloading the book asks for nothing. No account, no address, no gate.
Asking about your data
The Rift Sequence is published by Mattias Hjelmstedt. Write to hello@riftsequence.com to ask what is held about you, to correct it, or to have it deleted. You do not need a reason and you will not be asked for one.
If this page and the site ever disagree, the site is wrong and this page is the thing to trust — tell us through corrections and it gets fixed. Everything described here applies to riftsequence.com and the three domains that redirect to it.