What this site loads
Two things come from outside our own server:
- Google Fonts — the typefaces used across the site. Your browser requests the font files from Google, which means Google sees the request, including your IP address. No cookie is set by this.
- Formspree — only if you submit the email signup form, and only at that moment. Your email address goes to Formspree so we can receive it. Nothing is loaded from Formspree until you press the button.
Nothing else. No session cookie, no local storage, no advertising network, no fingerprinting script.
How we count visits
Two small scripts run on every page, both served by Vercel, who host this site. Web Analytics counts page views and which page sent you to the next one. Speed Insights measures how fast the page actually loaded for you.
Neither one sets a cookie or writes to local storage. Neither one gets an ID that survives to tomorrow: instead of storing who you are, Vercel derives a temporary hash from your IP address and browser, using a salt that is thrown away and replaced every day. When the salt changes, yesterday's visitor and today's visitor are unlinkable — even if they're you.
That's the whole reason there's no consent banner. Consent banners exist because of what a site stores on your device, and we store nothing.
What we see is a number per page and a load time per page. We can't see who you are, we can't follow you to another site, and we can't sell any of it — there's no export that would contain a person.
What the bot does
Ash itself runs inside Discord, not in your browser, so cookies don't apply to it. What it stores about you is covered in the privacy policy.
Discord has its own cookies and its own privacy policy, and those are between you and Discord.
If this changes
If we ever add anything that sets a cookie, stores an ID on your device, or follows you to another site, we will update this page, add a proper consent banner where the law requires one, and say so in the Discord first. We would rather not — the extra numbers aren't worth the banner.