Privacy

Last updated September 30, 2026.

This site does not sell attention or data. There are no ads, no cross-site trackers, and no behavioural profiles. This page lists everything the site does handle, so that the promise can be checked.

Reading

Reading Book One, the concept map, the register of open questions, and the essays needs no account and sets no cookie.

• Hosting. Pages are served by GitHub Pages. Like any web host, GitHub receives your IP address and browser details when your browser asks for a page. See GitHub's privacy statement.
• Counting readers. The site counts page views, referring sites, and countries with Plausible Analytics. Plausible sets no cookie, stores nothing on your device, and keeps no record of who you are or what you read. The counts are never shown on the site.
• Your browser. Some choices are kept in your own browser: theme and appearance, reading preferences and progress, private notes you write in the reader, and the width of the Minty panel. They never leave your device, and clearing this site's data in your browser removes them.
• Offline reading. Pages and chapters you open are also kept in your browser so they can be read offline.

Asking Minty

Minty answers questions from the published text.

• Your question, the earlier turns of the conversation, and the passage you are reading when you ask from within it are sent to this site's server and to Google's Gemini API to write the answer.
• When a question asks for research, a short search derived from it is sent to Semantic Scholar and Crossref to find published papers.
• If you are not signed in, the site does not store your question. The conversation lives in your browser tab and is gone when you close it.
• Please leave out anything you would not want a third party to process.

Giving an email address

You give an address only if you choose to: to join the reader list, to ask to join the circle, or to sign in.

• Delivery. Codes and messages are sent through Resend.
• Storage. An address is encrypted before it is stored, with a key the database does not hold. A one-way fingerprint sits beside it so that duplicates can be found without decrypting anything. Signing in keeps only the fingerprint.
• The reader list sends nothing until you confirm your address with a code. Messages are rare and only about the work, with no tracking pixels and no rewritten links. Every message has a link that removes you in one click, without an account. Leaving marks you as unsubscribed so that nothing is sent to you again; the encrypted address stays so that an old copy of the list cannot add you back. Ask, and it is deleted outright.
• A request to join keeps your encrypted address and the reason you gave, so that a person can answer you.
• Signing in uses a one-time code. The site keeps your address's fingerprint, when you last signed in, and a session cookie that lasts seven days or until you sign out. Conversations with Minty while signed in are saved to your account until you delete them.

Payments

The complete book and PDF require no payment. If you choose to support the author or the work, Stripe handles the one-time contribution and your card details never reach this site. See Stripe's privacy policy. The site keeps the provider-confirmed amount, purpose, status, and a one-way fingerprint of the receipt email, not the address itself. Support does not create membership or add you to the reader list. Historical book purchase and refund records remain private, including their account association.

Server logs

The site's server runs on Google Cloud, which keeps standard request logs (IP address, time, the address requested, and browser) to operate and secure the service. The server itself holds your IP address in memory briefly to limit abuse, and does not write it anywhere else.

Your choices

• Leave the reader list with the link in any message it sends.
• To see or delete what the site holds about you, or to ask about anything on this page, use the contact on the About page.

Changes

When this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. Earlier versions stay in the site's public source history.