Privacy & Cookies

Privacy Policy

We don’t store any identifying information with your Planetarium reader-name unless you provided your email address. Your reader-name and email address are deleted when you finish the story, or if you don’t visit for over three weeks: see these details.

The Fudebakudo shop is a Big Cartel service. We don’t store any credit card information, but we do get your contact and delivery details so we can send you the book(s) you’ve bought.

Beholder will never knowingly give or sell your email address or any other personal information to anyone else. We purge our records of personal contact data for sales that are over a year old.

Cookies on the Beholder site

The Beholder website doesn’t explicitly track your activity, or collect useage analytics. Specifically, Google Analytics were removed from the site many years ago because I grew uncomfortable about revealing your private activity here to Google in return for data that I didn’t really need to have. Obviously, there’s no surveillance-style ad-tracking going on here either, because there’s no third-party advertising.

If any cookies are currently set, they are listed below. There are a few places on the site where your progress or choices are preserved between page requests, but those use client-side localStorage instead of cookies (so they never leave your machine).

Beholder.uk cookies currently not set in your browser:

Planetarium

This is the Planetarium login cookie. It’s a session cookie, which means it automatically expires when you close your browser. While you’re logged in, it contains your readername and some session-specific stuff that the server matches against what it gave you when you logged in, to stop someone else casually faking you.

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This is a cookie used by Planetarium to deter ne’er-do-wells from tricking the site into giving them access to the xiii Forum before they are in their thirteenth week (it’s a session token to prevent cross-site request forgery).

Technical note

All the beholder.uk cookies are set with path=/ so this page can “see” them. Also, cookies are used on the Beholder project Fudebakudo, but because that runs on a separate domain, they won’t show up here.