Privacy
Propounded has no accounts, no sign-up, no newsletter, and no analytics. This page describes exactly what happens in your browser when you read the archive, and it is short because very little happens.
Last revised 19 August 2026.
What is not collected
- No cookies are set. The site does not write to
document.cookieat all. - No analytics, tag manager, heatmap, session recorder, or advertising script runs on any page.
- No third-party requests are made. Fonts, icons, styles, and scripts are all served from this domain, and the site's content security policy is set to
default-src 'self', so your browser refuses off-domain requests even if one were ever introduced by mistake. - There is no contact form, no comment box, and no upload. The one
<form>element on the site closes a dialog and submits nowhere. - You are not asked for your name, your email address, your employer, or who you are writing to. Nothing you type into the compose box leaves your device.
What is stored on your device
Two features remember something between visits. Both use your browser's local storage, which means the data sits on your own machine and is never transmitted to this site or anywhere else.
propounded:compose- The name and sign-off you last used in the compose box, so you do not have to retype them on the next message.
propounded:shortlist- The identifiers of the messages you have shortlisted, so your shortlist survives navigating between pages.
The site also installs a service worker, which keeps copies of pages you have already opened in your browser's cache so the archive still works when you lose your connection. Those copies are the same public pages anyone can read; they contain nothing about you.
Clearing site data for this domain in your browser removes all of it. So does the button below.
Requests to the server
The pages are static files served from Cloudflare's network. Delivering any web page requires the server to see the request: the address it came from, the page asked for, the time, and the browser making the ask. That is how the response finds its way back to you, and it is handled by the hosting provider as part of serving the file and protecting the service from abuse.
Nothing in this site's own code reads, records, enriches, or joins that information to anything else. There is no database behind the archive and no server-side rendering; every page you see was written to a file before it was ever requested.
Children and sensitive data
The archive is a public reading collection with no interactive account of any kind, so there is nothing here to sign a child up to and no profile to build about anyone.
Changes and questions
If this notice changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it — it is read from the page's own revision history when the site is built, so it cannot drift out of step with the text.