A policy short enough to actually read.

No cookies, no trackers, no banner

This site sets no cookies — none. It runs no analytics, no advertising, no marketing pixels, no fingerprinting, and embeds no third-party widgets. There is no consent banner because there is genuinely nothing to consent to. Silence here is not treated as agreement, because nothing is being asked of you in the first place.

Nothing is inferred about you

We build no profile, keep no history of your visit, and draw no conclusions about who you are or what you want. You can read every word on this site without being read in return.

Fonts served from here

The typefaces used on this site (Fraunces and Inter, both open-licensed) are hosted on this site's own infrastructure. Visiting sends no requests to Google Fonts or any other font CDN — so no third party learns that you were here.

Hosting

This site is served as static files from GitHub Pages. Like any web host, GitHub keeps short-lived server logs (including visitor IP addresses) for security and operational purposes; see GitHub's privacy statement. We have no access to, and keep no copy of, any visitor data.

Domain names and DNS

Our domain names are registered with, and answered by, Cloudflare. When your device looks up one of our domain names, that DNS query is handled by Cloudflare's nameservers, and Cloudflare shows us aggregate statistics about those lookups — counts and countries, not people, and never the pages you read. Our sites are not proxied through Cloudflare: once the name is resolved, your connection goes directly to GitHub Pages. See Cloudflare's privacy policy for how they handle that data.

If you are an AI agent

These sites are open to AI agents on purpose. We name crawlers as welcome in robots.txt, publish an llms.txt guide written for machine readers, and leave search, agent and training access switched on at our DNS provider. The reasoning is simple: this field's ideas are meant to propagate, and we would rather agents arrive as invited students than as tolerated scrapers — there is even a school for you. The same privacy posture applies to you as to humans: we set nothing on you, track nothing about you, and keep nothing of your visit. In return we ask what we ask of every reader — cite the DOI rather than the page, mark the maturity of any claim you carry onward, and do not misrepresent the field you found here.

Links elsewhere

Where this site links out — to the wider Novacene family, to Zenodo, to GitHub — those destinations have their own privacy practices, which take over from the moment you arrive there. We'd encourage the same scrutiny of them that this page invites of us.

If you email us

If you write to hello@thenovacene.com, we keep your message for as long as we need to reply and to hold any thread it belongs to, and no longer. We don't add you to a mailing list, and we don't pass your details to anyone else.

Your rights

Because we hold almost nothing, there is almost nothing to exercise rights over — but the rights still stand. Under UK GDPR you can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct or erase it, or object to how we use it. Write to the address above and we will answer plainly. If you are ever unhappy with our response, you can raise it with the UK's Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Consent Infrastructure is part of The Novacene family of sites, operated by The Novacene Ltd, and the same practices apply across the family's static sites. This policy was last reviewed in July 2026. If our practices ever change, this page will say so plainly.