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Privacy Policy

ARCHONODE privacy policy — what data we collect, what we don't, and why.

Last updated: 2026-09-30

What we collect

ARCHONODE uses Plausible Analytics — a privacy-first analytics tool — to understand which pages on this site get read. Plausible does not use cookies, does not track you across sites, does not collect your IP address, and does not build a profile of you.

We use it because we want to know what to write next, not because we want to know who you are.

What we don't collect

No cookies.
No tracking pixels.
No Facebook Pixel. No Google Analytics. No third-party ad networks.
No personal data. No email addresses (unless you sign up for the newsletter, in which case the email stays with our email provider and we use it to send you the newsletter and nothing else).
No persistent identifiers. Your visits are not stitched together into a profile.

If you sign up for the ARCHONODE newsletter, your email address is recorded to a local file on the server (data/subscribers.jsonl). We do not currently send emails — readers visit the public archive at /newsletter each month for the next transmission. We do not sell or share your address. You can ask us to remove it at any time by emailing signal [@] archonode.com.

Audio playback state

When you listen to a track, the persistent audio player uses your browser's `localStorage` to remember the track, current playback position, and volume. This is stored only in your browser and is never sent to us. Clearing your browser data clears it.

Embedded content

Some pages embed players from Spotify, YouTube, and similar services. Those embeds may set their own cookies when you interact with them. We have no control over that — if you don't want third-party cookies, use the direct links on the /links page instead of the embedded players.

Your rights

If you're in the EU / UK / California / anywhere with applicable data rights, you have the right to ask us what we have on you. The answer is: nothing, except your email if you signed up for the newsletter, and even that we don't keep ourselves.

Contact

Questions? Email signal [@] archonode.com.

This policy may be updated. If we make material changes we'll note it at the top with a new "last updated" date.