Privacy & Cookies.
The data controller is Valentino Riccò. For privacy requests, contact hello@liminalfinds.com. This notice describes how the site handles personal data.
Reading the site
No account is required. The current site does not set analytics cookies or use Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, advertising pixels or social-media trackers. I do not show a cookie-consent banner for the current configuration. I will reassess this if the technology or purposes change.
Analytics
I use Vercel Web Analytics for aggregated audience statistics: page views and visitors, pages and hostnames visited, referrers when the browser supplies them, country, device type, browser and operating system. Its script sends page-view events to Vercel, including for in-site navigation; I do not send custom events. According to Vercel, data points may include URLs, filtered query parameters and timestamps. Vercel derives a hash from the incoming request to distinguish visitors and discards the session after 24 hours; it says analytics are not tied to individual users or IP addresses and do not use third-party cookies. I do not use this for advertising or profiling. Please avoid putting personal information in this site’s URLs.
Hosting and technical data
The site is hosted on Vercel. As with ordinary web hosting, requests may produce technical records such as IP address, requested URL, time and browser information for delivery, security and diagnostics. This is separate from audience analytics. See Vercel’s privacy notice for its own processing.
Vercel determines how long it keeps hosting logs under its own policies. I do not claim a retention period I cannot verify.
Contact and your rights
For questions about personal data, write to hello@liminalfinds.com. You can ask about access, correction or deletion of your data where applicable, and lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority. For editorial discoveries, write to the same address; the Traces form is temporarily paused.
Messages sent to this address are forwarded through OVHcloud to an inbox hosted by Google. I use the information in your message to reply; the email providers handle its delivery.
Valentino, the independent publisher of Liminal Finds, handles privacy enquiries at this email address.
I use messages to answer and handle requests on the basis of my legitimate interest in correspondence or, where applicable, a legal obligation. I keep messages only as long as needed for that purpose and applicable legal duties. Hosting and email providers may process data outside the EEA under their applicable transfer arrangements; contact me about a specific request.
Likes
If you press the heart at the end of a page, I keep one like for that article in the private GitHub ledger already used by this site, through the Vercel server. The number of likes is public; your browser identifier and the time of your click are not. The ledger holds only an article-specific pseudonymous signature of the random browser identifier and the time of the click; it holds no name, email, plain IP address or reader-supplied content. If you remove your like, that entry is deleted from the ledger (the ledger’s revision history remains).
The random identifier for the article is created only when you press the heart and is kept in your browser’s local storage; it lets me find your like when you reload and prevents repeats, without linking your reading across articles. There is no account, cookie for this feature, fingerprinting or profiling. The count is shared between .com and .it, but the two editions have separate browser storage: in the other edition you will see the number, not your own lit heart. Clearing local data or using another browser allows another like: this measures participation, not identity.
Against abuse I use a limit based on an IP signature, without plain IP addresses, which expires after ten minutes and applies to each server instance. GitHub and Vercel handle technical data under their terms, including processing outside the EEA with applicable safeguards. The pages used to offer a “reading card” to stamp; that feature is paused, but stamps already left remain in the same private ledger, with the same pseudonymous characteristics. For data enquiries, write to hello@liminalfinds.com.
Newsletter survey
The survey is optional and does not subscribe you to a newsletter. We record your yes or no answer, any sections selected, the site edition and the minute of submission. Both sites contribute to the same Neon database in Frankfurt. Results are available only in the private administration area.
We ask for no names, email addresses or profile details and store no IP addresses in the database. A vote signature derived from a random code specific to this survey prevents duplicates and confirms retries. Your browser keeps the code locally and, after voting, a technical confirmation cookie for one year. These protections do not connect your vote to articles you read. Clearing browser data or using another browser or domain allows another vote.
Abuse counters based on IP signatures remain only in server memory for ten minutes. A shared response limit protects the database without storing IPs there. The hosting technical data described above still apply. Closing the survey stops collection while preserving responses. For questions or requests, write to hello@liminalfinds.com; include your local survey code if you want us to locate your vote.
Traces
The Traces form is temporarily paused with Mailcoach delivery. You can send a contribution directly to hello@liminalfinds.com. The site does not send it to Mailcoach, create an archive or publish it automatically. The email correspondence, retention and rights provisions in Contact and your rights apply to direct messages.
Newsletter
The newsletter is temporarily paused. The site is not collecting subscription addresses or sending newsletters. Taking the survey does not subscribe you or request future emails.
Mailcoach Cloud configuration and any records already held by the service remain separate from survey responses. Pausing the site does not automatically erase provider records or change account settings. For information or erasure requests, write to hello@liminalfinds.com.
Confirmed subscriber data is kept in Mailcoach while needed to deliver the newsletter. Unsubscribe stops further sends; Mailcoach keeps a suppression list to avoid unwanted re-sends. Personal data is erased when requested and when no longer needed. Mailcoach database backups are retained for 3 days under its DPA. We do not keep a parallel archive of subscribers or consents on our side.
Changes
I will update this notice when services or data processing change.