Let us be plain about the arrangement: you come here to read, we keep the doors open, and some information changes hands in the process. Nobody at this address is assembling a dossier on you. What follows is the accurate, unglamorous account.
The three things we end up holding
- Whatever you type. A display name, an email address, and your opinion of chapter nine, when you post a comment. We keep them because deleting a comment while keeping the compliment would be strange.
- What your connection announces. Your IP address, which browser and which device you are on, the page that sent you here, the pages you opened, and timestamps. Every server on the planet receives these; it is how the web introduces itself.
- A few files in your browser. Small cookies and storage entries that hold your font size, theme preference, and reading position. Without them, every book would start again at page one — a plot twist nobody requested.
Advertising, and the part everybody skips
Adverts keep this place free, and Google AdSense is among the networks supplying them. Google and its partners read cookies to decide which advert you see, drawn from pages you have opened here and on other sites.
- Personalised advertising can be switched off at Google Ads Settings, or you can opt out of a long list of vendors in one go at aboutads.info.
- Readers in Britain, Switzerland and the European Economic Area receive non-essential cookies only after agreeing to them, and may reverse that decision at any point.
- Networks also use cookies to stop one advert appearing eleven times in a row, to compile aggregate figures, and to detect fraudulent traffic. Tedious, but load-bearing.
What we refuse to do
We will not sell your information, rent it, trade it, or fold it into a spreadsheet with an optimistic filename. Knowing more about you than the site requires serves no purpose we have.
Who else encounters it
The company hosting our servers, the tools counting visitors, and the networks paying for bandwidth. Each sees only what its function demands. A court order would oblige us to hand something over; we would say so, unless a judge forbade us.
How long things stay
Comments remain while the site exists. Emails remain until the question is closed. Server logs fade on a schedule we do not lose sleep over.
Younger readers
This site is written for people aged 13 and up, and nothing is knowingly gathered from anyone below that line. Tell us a child’s account exists and it disappears.
What you may ask for
Wherever you happen to live, you can ask to inspect your information, correct it, erase it, or instruct us to stop using it. One message to linkuu@foxmail.com. No portal, no queue, no “please allow four to six weeks”.
Following a link away
Once you leave for another site, their rules govern and ours stop at the door. We cannot answer for them.
If this text changes
The date at the foot of this page moves whenever the wording does. Anything significant is announced on the homepage rather than edited quietly at two in the morning.
Reaching us
Questions, corrections, objections: linkuu@foxmail.com.
Last updated: 16 September 2026