Almost nothing about you.

Who is responsible

This site is written and run by Lisandra Alemán. If you have a question about this page or about your information, write to the address shown here once the page loads. I read and answer those messages myself.

When you visit

The site is hosted by Vercel. Like any web host, Vercel receives your IP address and browser details in order to send you the page, and keeps short-lived technical logs under its own policy. Pictures in articles are stored with Vercel too and come from its storage service. The fonts are served by this site itself, so no font company sees your visit.

Counting visits

I use Vercel Web Analytics to see how many people read the site and which articles. It doesn’t use cookies. It tells visits apart with a code made from the request, which Vercel throws away after 24 hours, and I only ever see totals: pages viewed, the country and kind of device, the site a visitor came from.

Beyond page views, the site counts these things, and only these:

• reaching the end of an article (which article, and its language);
• sharing an article with the button under it (which article, its language, and whether you used your device’s share menu or copied the link; never where it went or to whom);
• leaving a reaction under an article (which article, its language, which reaction);
• sending a comment (which article, and its language; if it fails to send, the kind of problem, never what it said);
• following a link to my profile on another site (which kind of link, and where it was).

The site also keeps its own running totals, so I can see them where I write: for each article, how many times it was opened, read to the end, shared and reacted to, and for each topic, how many times its page was opened. They are numbers and nothing more, kept in the site’s database next to the articles, with nothing that could tell one reader from another, and they go when the article or topic does.

So that nobody can inflate those numbers, or flood the comments, the site limits how much one connection can send in an hour. To do that it keeps a tally next to a code made from your network address with a secret that changes every day: the code can’t be turned back into the address, and today’s can’t be matched with tomorrow’s. Each tally is deleted when its hour is up, the next time anyone visits.

Vercel Speed Insights also measures how quickly pages load, so slow ones can be fixed. None of this follows anyone from site to site, and nothing you type goes into these counts.

If you’d rather not be counted at all, you can switch the counting off for this browser. A reaction or a comment you choose to leave still reaches the site, as it’s meant to.

Comments and reactions

Under each article you can leave a comment. It asks only for the comment and, if you like, a name: no email address, no account. The site keeps the comment, the name, the article and the time, and nothing that identifies you or your device. Like any request, it passes through Vercel, which hosts the site.

Every comment waits until I’ve read it, and only the ones I publish appear under the article, with your name or “A reader”. One connection can send up to 20 comments an hour (see the hourly limit above). When one arrives, a copy is emailed through Resend, an email service, to me and to whoever helps me look after the site, so it doesn’t wait unread.

To keep spam out, the form uses Cloudflare Turnstile, a check that starts when you begin writing and that most people never see. It receives what any site receives from your browser, your IP address included, and Cloudflare uses it only to tell people from bots, as its Turnstile privacy addendum explains.

A published comment stays as long as its article does. To have one changed or removed, write to me with the article and what it said.

Under each article you can also leave one reaction, and change it or take it back. It adds one to a total that only I see, and nothing else is kept. Your browser remembers which one you chose, so the page can show it.

What your browser keeps

The site sets no cookies for readers. It may keep a few small notes in your browser’s own storage, and they never leave your device:

• theme: light or dark, if you choose one with the switch at the top of the page;
• analytics-off: if you turn counting off above;
• reactions: the reaction you chose under each article, so you can see it and change or take it back.

The site has a private area where its articles are written. Signing in there sets a cookie, but only for the people who write here; readers never see it.

If you write to me

I use your message only to read it and reply. I keep it as long as our conversation needs, I never add you to a list, and I delete it whenever you ask.

Other sites

Links to Medium, LinkedIn and other sites take you somewhere with its own privacy rules. The RSS feed is fetched by your feed reader like any page; nothing in it identifies you.

Your rights

You can ask what I hold about you, ask me to correct or delete it, or object to how it is used. For readers who haven’t written to me or left a comment the answer is usually “nothing”, but ask anyway and I’ll check.

Changes to this page

If what the site does changes, this page changes with it. Last updated 9 October 2026.