Privacy

This press collects nothing about you. There are no accounts, no analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no cookies, and no third-party services, on this website or in the iPhone app.

That is the whole policy. The rest of this page explains what happens anyway, because a claim like the one above is worth checking.

The app

Every work the press has published ships inside the app. The library reads with the radio off, so the ordinary use of the app sends nothing anywhere and needs no network at all.

The app makes network requests in exactly two situations, both of them plain, anonymous requests for public files:

1. Looking for new works. The app asks this site for library.json, and for the bytes of any work it does not already hold. It happens when the app opens, at most once an hour, and when you press Check for new works. Nothing is uploaded and no identifier is sent.
2. Checking a work against Bitcoin. When you ask a work to be verified on the Blockchain view, the app fetches that work's raw reveal transaction from independent public explorers, currently mempool.space and blockstream.info. It sends them a transaction identifier that is already public and nothing else. It does not tell this press that you did it.

Nothing else leaves the device on its own. The app has no advertising identifier, reads no contacts, no photos, and no location, and asks for no permissions at all. Your reading is not recorded, not on our machines and not on yours: the app keeps no history of what you opened. The only things it remembers between launches are whether you chose light or dark, and the time it last looked for new works.

Links that leave the app

A work's Blockchain view offers links out to independent explorers, currently mempool.space and ordinals.com, and the Press screen links to this website. These are links, not requests: nothing is fetched until you tap one, and tapping one hands you to Safari.

Once you are there you are on someone else's page, under their policy, and they can see that a reader asked about that particular transaction. We think that trade is worth offering, because checking the press against parties who have nothing to do with the press is the entire point. But it is your choice every time, and the app never follows those links by itself.

An inscribed program cannot phone home

Some works are programs, and they run. Before the first byte of one loads, the app compiles a rule that refuses every network request the work might make, and gives it a scratch space that does not survive it. A work that could reach the network could learn something about the reader, so it is not allowed to try. If the rule cannot be compiled, the work does not run.

The website

The site is plain files served by a static host. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and loads nothing from anyone else: every stylesheet and script it uses is served from this domain, so no other company learns that you were here.

It does keep one thing on your machine. If you switch the site to dark, that choice is written to your browser's local storage so it holds as you move between pages. It is not a cookie, it is never sent to us, it says only "dark" or "light", and clearing your browser data removes it.

Verification in the browser fetches raw transactions from mempool.space and blockstream.info directly from your machine, the same way the app does. It runs only when you ask for it.

What a web server sees regardless

Any computer that hands you a file necessarily learns that someone asked for it. Our host, like every host, may keep short-lived logs containing an IP address and the file requested. We do not read them to identify anyone, we do not build profiles from them, we do not sell or share them, and no advertiser or analytics company receives them. Say the same of the public block explorers: they are independent of this press, they see the requests you send them, and each publishes its own policy.

If you would rather no server saw anything at all, the library is designed for that. Take a complete copy and read it from your own machine forever, with no request to us or to anyone.

Children

The app collects no data from anyone, of any age. It has no accounts, no messaging, no user content, and no way to contact another reader.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the changed page is published here. The press does not send email, so there is nowhere else it could be announced.

Asking about this

Write to cyberdelic.space@gmail.com.

Last updated 2 August 2026.