Privacy

The short version: everything you save while reading stays on your device, and the only thing that leaves is a count of pages opened. The long version is below, because a promise nobody can check is not worth much.

What stays on your device

Every line you bookmark, every if-then plan you set, every wave you ride out, the days you have read, whether you are stopping or cutting back, and whether the lamp is on night or day — all of it is written to one key in this browser's local storage, called first30days, and read back from there.

• There is no account. No email address, no password, nothing to sign up for and nothing to close.
• There is no sync and no server copy. What you saved on your phone is not on your laptop, because there is nowhere in between for it to pass through.
• Nothing you type is transmitted. The if-then sentence you write, the lines you keep, the door a craving came through — none of it is sent anywhere, ever, including to us.
• Pressing the hard-day button is not an event. The site does not measure it, log it or count it. Nobody is told you had a hard night.
• You can erase all of it in one tap, from your pocket. That is a real delete: there is no copy anywhere to restore it from, which is the same promise read from the other end.

Clearing your browser data clears it too. That is the trade for keeping it on the device — nothing to lose to a breach, and nothing to recover if you wipe the browser.

What leaves the device

Nothing. As this page was built, no analytics were switched on: the site loads no third-party script, contacts no other server, and sets no cookie of any kind. The only requests your browser makes are for this site's own pages, stylesheet and scripts.

This paragraph is generated from the same setting that would switch measurement on, so it cannot describe the site wrongly - if a counter is ever added, this page says so on the same build.

What this site does not do

• No advertising, no ad network, no tracking pixels, no fingerprinting, and nothing sold or shared with anyone.
• No fonts, scripts, images or embeds loaded from anyone else's server — everything on the page comes from this site.
• No profile of you is built, here or anywhere, from what you read.
• No mailing list, no contact form, no comments — nothing on this site collects an address to write back to.

If you are worried about someone seeing this

Reading here leaves the ordinary traces any website leaves on a shared device: an entry in browser history, and the saved pocket itself. A private or incognito window leaves neither — the pocket will not save between visits in that mode, and the site says so rather than failing quietly. If a device is not safely yours, that is the safer way to read this.

How the series itself is written, and what it is and is not, is set out on the about page.