What this site knows about you.

There is no analytics package on this site, no advertising, and no tracking cookie. You can read every article without giving up anything beyond the request your browser has to make to load the page. The only personal data held is what you deliberately type into one of three forms.

If you subscribe to the newsletter

Your email address is stored, and a matching contact is created at Resend, the service that sends the mail. Nothing else is recorded. Every email carries a one-click unsubscribe link tied to your address; using it deletes the stored row and marks the Resend contact unsubscribed.

If you post a response

The name, role and email you enter are stored with your comment. Your name, role and initials appear publicly once the comment is approved; your email address is never displayed and is used only to recognise replies from the author. Comments are held unpublished until reviewed by hand, so nothing you write appears on the site automatically.

If you use the contact form

Your name, email, subject and message are stored and forwarded to hi@gimhara.com so they can be answered.

When anyone reads or likes an article

Article view and like totals are counted per article, not per person — the stored number is an aggregate with nothing attached to it.

To stop those counters being trivially inflated, a short identifier is derived from your IP address and browser user-agent by hashing them together with SHA-256 and keeping the first 32 characters. The IP address itself is never written down, and the hash cannot be turned back into one. It is still information derived from you, which is why it is described here rather than left unmentioned. These rows are deleted after two days.

Saved articles, which posts you have liked, your light or dark preference, the reading settings for the audio player, and the name and role you last used to comment are kept in your own browser’s local storage. They are never sent anywhere. Clearing your browser data removes them. The relevant keys are space_saved_posts, space_liked_posts, theme, space_audio_highlight_word and space_commenter_profile.

A per-tab marker (space:viewed:…) stops a single reading session counting the same article twice. It disappears when you close the tab.

Vercel hosts the site and, like any web host, processes the requests your browser makes. Turso stores the database described above. Resend delivers newsletter and contact email and holds subscriber addresses.

Two features reach a third party, and only if you choose to use them. Turning on semantic search downloads an embedding model, and pressing Run on a code block downloads a Python runtime — both from the jsDelivr CDN, with model files coming from Hugging Face. Those requests reveal your IP address to those services in the ordinary way any download does. Neither is fetched unless you ask for it, and neither sends them anything about you beyond the request itself; your search query is turned into a vector inside your own browser and never leaves it.

Subscriber addresses are kept until you unsubscribe. Comments are kept as long as they are published. Contact messages are kept so the correspondence can be picked up again. Abuse-counter hashes are deleted after two days.

Email hi@gimhara.com and ask. There is one person behind this publication and no process to navigate: say what you want removed and it will be, along with confirmation that it is done. The same address works for a copy of anything held about you, or a correction to it. To stop newsletter email immediately without writing to anybody, use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any Space email.

If what is collected changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves. Material changes will be mentioned in the newsletter rather than made quietly.