The short version
The House does not want to know who you are. This site is a set of plain pages. It has no accounts, no comment sections, no mailing list, no contact form, no advertising, and no analytics. It asks for no personal information and stores none.
What this site does not do
- No cookies. The site sets no cookies and uses no local storage in your browser.
- No tracking. There are no analytics scripts, tracking pixels, advertising networks, or social media widgets.
- No outside requests. Every stylesheet, script, and image is served from this site, and the pages use fonts already on your device. Your browser is not sent to any third party when you read a page.
- No forms that send data. The search box and the glossary filter run entirely in your browser. What you type is never transmitted.
- No profiles. The House keeps no list of readers, and by its Charter has no members to keep a list of.
What the interactive features do
A few features use JavaScript on your own device. The moon display reads your device's clock to work out the lunar phase. The night journal page uses the same calculation to pick a prompt. The search page looks through a small index file that is downloaded with the page. The contents box and the progress bar follow how far down the page you have scrolled. None of these sends anything back.
The site works without JavaScript. You will lose the moon display and its dates, tonight's journal prompt, the search, the glossary filter, the Open All and Close All buttons on the Questions page, and the reading progress markers. All of the text remains.
Server logs
Like every website, this one is delivered by a hosting provider whose servers may keep routine technical logs, such as the time of a request and the address it came from, for security and maintenance. The keepers do not review these logs to identify readers and do not combine them with any other information.
Your notebook is yours
Several practices in this library ask you to write things down. Whatever you write stays with you. The House never asks to see it, and offers no way of sending it.
Changes to this notice
If the site ever changes in a way that affects privacy, this page will be revised first and the date below will change. See also the Terms and Disclaimer.