Every version we have published, newest first. The version marked current is the one recorded against your account when you accepted it.
August 2026 · 2026-08
current
The half a careful reader was missing
The previous policy was honest but incomplete: it said the right things about your work and left out almost everything a professional reader checks. This rewrite keeps the first half and adds the second.
- Split what we collect into three — account data, what you write, and usage data — because merging them reads as though we treat your manuscript like telemetry.
- Added the legal basis for each purpose under Art. 6, rather than implying one basis covers everything.
- Added a retention table with real numbers: 30-day account grace, 35-day backup rotation, 65 days worst case.
- Answered where your data physically is — Tokyo — where the previous version answered who could access it.
- Added international transfers, and named the actual basis (Standard Contractual Clauses), not Japan's adequacy decision. The controller is a US company; the location of the servers does not change that.
- Added the full list of data-subject rights, our one-month response deadline, and your right to complain to your own supervisory authority without coming to us first.
- Added what staff can see — including the two exceptions we could have left unmentioned: a read-only view of AI memory entries when a fault is reported, and production database access held by a small number of engineers.
- Added a cookies section, which the policy had never had, alongside the consent banner that now gates analytics and advertising.
- Stopped describing analytics as anything like anonymous. The events carry random identifiers, which is not the same thing, and saying so is easy to verify.
- Added a minimum age, a change-notification commitment, and this page.
- Retired the newsletter signup and deleted the addresses it had collected. It was never sent anything, and holding an address for a purpose we were not fulfilling was not defensible.
June 2026 · 2026-06
First published version
Six sections in plain language: the short version, what we collect, how we use it, where it lives, your choices, and how to reach us. It was accurate as far as it went, and it did not go far enough for anyone who needed to verify rather than trust.