Privacy
What this site keeps about you
Not much. Here is all of it.
Your email
You give an email address to sign in. It is never shown to other members. It is never sold.
- It receives sign-in links. If you join a Lab waitlist, it also receives one note when that tool opens.
- Mail is sent through Resend, a mail service. Resend sees your address and the message.
Your name and posts
Members choose the name shown next to their posts. Posts in the forum are public. Anyone can read them.
- What you post is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Others may share and build on it with credit, under the same licence.
- Members must be 16 or older.
Cookies
The site sets two cookies. Both are first-party and work across this site.
- A session cookie keeps you signed in for 30 days.
- A form token stops other sites from posting in your name.
Your browser notes
Some tools save inside your own browser (localStorage). None of it is sent to our server.
- The board, the five-move worksheet and the daily question.
- The notebook and the focus timer in the strip at the top.
- Your choice of Paper or Chalk. The belief you chose on About.
What the server keeps
- Your posts, replies, reactions and any report you file, with its reason.
- Which Lab waitlists you joined.
- Sign-in links, stored only as a scrambled hash. They expire after 15 minutes.
- Your IP address, in memory only, to slow down spam. It is not written to disk.
The ask-why demo
Ask why sends nothing by default. Its questions are written by hand and run in your browser.
If its live mode is ever switched on, the page says so. That mode sends your words to Anthropic's model. The server logs counts, never your words.
No tracking
No analytics. No ads. No tracking pixels. No third-party scripts. Fonts and media load from this site.
Leaving
Want your account and posts removed? Write to ratnavarma@notebook.beer. Ratna Varma handles it by hand.