Privacy Policy

The short version

• Four forms collect what you type into them — a name and email to join the crew, the same to download the discussion-question PDF (which also adds you to the crew list), a name, email and message to contact Kayla, and a one-line answer to a dossier prompt.
• Nothing is sold, rented, or handed to an advertiser. There is no advertising on this site.
• No tracking cookie is set, which is why you were never asked to accept one.
• One thing is kept on your device: your first name, after you join the crew, so the next form greets you instead of asking twice. You can delete it yourself.
• To ask what is held about you, or to have it deleted, use the contact page.

What the forms collect

Join the crew (the newsletter)

The signup asks for a name and an email address, and uses them for one thing: news about Saur. The list is held by Kit, an email service in the United States. Signing up does not put you on it: Kit sends you a confirmation email first, and nothing is sent to you unless you click the link in it. Every message carries an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing takes effect immediately.

Contact

The contact form asks for a name, an email address and your message. All three are used to read and answer you, and nothing else. Sending a message does not add you to the mailing list.

Dossier prompts

The one-line prompts scattered through the site — your favorite word, a classified trait, a question for Kayla — send only the answer itself, the time it arrived, and which question it belongs to. No name, no email, and nothing that ties an answer back to you or to a newsletter signup.

What happens automatically

Every request to any website carries an IP address, and this one is no exception. Two things are done with it here, both narrow:

• Rate limiting. When a form is submitted, the address is held in memory for up to an hour, purely to count submissions from it and stop a script hammering the endpoint. It is never written into the message itself, and it is gone when the hour is up.
• Bot screening. Every form carries a hidden field no human ever sees; a submission that fills it in is discarded without complaint. An invisible check from Cloudflare (Turnstile) may also run at the moment you press send — it reads browser signals to tell a person from a script, shows no puzzle, and is never used to advertise to you.

Submissions are also written to the hosting platform’s function logs, which is how Kayla reads them. Those logs carry the ordinary request information every web server records.

Measurement

Any measurement of how this site is used is cookieless and aggregate by design: no cookie, no identifier that follows you to another site, no profile of you anywhere. It answers “did anyone read the book page” and nothing more specific than that. That is a deliberate choice, and it is the reason there is no consent banner between you and the site — there is nothing here to consent to.

Cookies, and what is stored on your device

This site sets no cookie for analytics, advertising, or tracking. If your browser is ever handed a cookie here, it is a strictly necessary one from the hosting platform to serve or protect the page, never to build a picture of you.

Three small values may be written by your browser to your own device. None of them is ever sent to us:

• Your first name, saved when you join the crew, so the other signup forms on the site greet you instead of asking again. The “Not you?” link beside that greeting deletes it.
• A flag noting that the opening animation has already played, so it does not replay on every page. It is discarded when you close the tab.
• A diagnostic switch, off unless you turn it on yourself from a browser console.

Clearing site data for this domain in your browser removes all three.

Who else is involved

This site is hosted on Vercel, which serves the pages and runs the small functions behind the forms; requests and logs pass through it, and its Web Analytics and Speed Insights products produce the aggregate, cookieless measurement described above. Where the Cloudflare bot check is enabled, a submission is verified with Cloudflare at the moment you send it. A message from the contact form, and a one-line dossier answer, are carried to Kayla’s inbox by Resend, the service that sends them; it handles the message in transit and keeps its own short delivery record. Kit holds newsletter subscribers — the name and email address you gave the signup, and nothing else. That is the whole list. Nothing is sold, rented, or shared for advertising.

The typefaces are served from this site itself, so no font company sees your visit. There are no embedded videos, no social widgets, no comment system and no advertising pixels anywhere on the site. Links out to retailers, Goodreads and social profiles are ordinary links: follow one and you are on their site, under their privacy policy rather than this one.

How long anything is kept

There is no database behind this site. Contact messages and dossier answers are emailed to Kayla, and they are kept the way any email is: in her inbox, until she deletes it. A copy also passes through the hosting platform’s function logs, which are deleted automatically at the end of its retention window. Newsletter subscribers are kept until they unsubscribe. The IP address used for rate limiting is discarded within the hour. Nothing is archived anywhere else.

Younger readers

Saur is a young adult novel and younger readers are welcome here. Two of the forms ask for a name and an email address; if you are under 13, please ask a parent or guardian before you send either. The dossier prompts ask for neither and are fine to answer at any age. If a parent or guardian wants something removed, ask through the contact page and it will be.

What you can ask for

Whatever the law where you live says, this is what is on offer to everyone who writes in: ask what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected, ask for it to be deleted, or unsubscribe from the newsletter using the link in any email. There is no account to close and nothing to argue with — ask, and it is done.

For readers in some places, including the UK, the European Union and several US states, those are enforceable legal rights rather than a courtesy. Nobody here is going to make you prove where you live before honoring a request.

If this changes

If what the site collects changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves. Any new third-party embed — a trailer, a social feed, a review widget — reopens the cookie question before it ships, not after.

Getting in touch

Email contact@saursaga.com. It reaches Kayla Hartman directly, and a request about your own data is as welcome there as any other message. If you would rather not open a mail client, the contact page is the same channel with a form in front of it. Saur is published by Saur Press LLC, which is responsible for everything this page describes.

It is the only address this site publishes. Writing to it does not add you to the mailing list, and what you send is used to answer you and for nothing else, exactly as with the form.