The short version
What this comes down to
I collect a first name and an email address on the website. I ask for a mailing address privately, only if you want letters on paper, and only after we have already spoken.
I do not sell anything to anyone. I do not share your address. I will never confirm to another person that you are here.
What I collect
From the website. Your first name, your email address, and which thing you were looking at when you wrote to me. That is all the form holds.
Later, privately. Your mailing address, if you choose paper letters. I ask for this by email, not on a web page, and I tell you how it is handled before I ask.
What you write to me. The letters you send, and anything you tell me about your life in them.
Payment. If you subscribe, card details go directly to Stripe. I never see them, hold them, or have access to them.
I do not use advertising trackers on this site, and I do not build a profile of you for marketing.
Your address, specifically
Some of the women reading this are leaving somebody. That shapes how this works.
- Your address is used to post your letters and for nothing else.
- It is never sold, rented, shared, or added to any other list.
- It is shared with a printing and mailing service only to the extent needed to physically post your envelope. Nothing about the contents of your letter goes with it.
- If you write with a different writer later, that writer is not given your address. Mail routes through a post office box.
- You can ask for plain envelopes with no return name at any time, for any reason, and you do not have to explain.
- You can ask me to delete your address and switch to email at any time, and it comes off the file.
I will never confirm that you are a subscriber to anyone. Not to a partner, an ex, a family member, an employer, or anyone claiming to be you. If someone contacts me about you, they will be told nothing, including whether you exist here.
If you ask me to change or remove your address, I will confirm it is you first, using the email address already on your file. This is slower. It is slower on purpose.
Who else touches your information
A small number of services make this possible, and each one sees only what it needs:
- The website host receives and stores what you type into the form.
- The email service carries messages between us.
- The printing and mailing service receives your name and address in order to post a physical letter to you.
- Stripe handles payment if you subscribe, and holds your card details rather than me.
Each of these has its own privacy policy, and none of them is given your letters.
Your letters
What you write belongs to you. I keep your letters so that our correspondence makes sense over time, and so that your Bound Year can be made at the end of twelve months if you want one.
Nothing you write is published, quoted, posted, read aloud, or shown to another person without your permission in writing, each time, for that specific use. Not anonymously. Not as an example. Not in a pitch.
If I ever want to quote something, I will ask, and no is a complete answer that changes nothing about your subscription.
A Page for Tonight
Nothing you write on A Page for Tonight is sent to me, saved on this site, or stored in your browser. It stays in that window until you download it, email it to yourself from your own email app, or close the window. The one exception is a page you choose to send for your Bound Year. That page is kept with your letters, never shared, bound into your book, and handled like the rest of your correspondence.
How long I keep things
Your letters and correspondence are kept while you are writing with me, and for one year afterwards in case you come back. Then they are destroyed unless you have asked me to keep them.
Your mailing address is deleted within thirty days of you ending paper letters.
You can ask me to delete everything at any point, and I will, and I will tell you when it is done.
When something in a letter worries me
If you write about being in danger, I will reply, I will believe you, and I will include the numbers for people trained to help. I will not investigate, contact anyone on your behalf, or share what you wrote, except where the law requires it of me.
The main exception is the safety of a child. Florida law requires reports of suspected child abuse from any person, and I will follow the law where it applies. I would rather you know that now than discover it later.
Age
This is written for adults. Please do not use it if you are under eighteen. If I learn that someone under eighteen has written in, I will delete their information.
Changes, and reaching me
If this policy changes in a way that matters, I will email everyone it affects rather than quietly updating the page.
Anything at all, including asking what I hold about you or asking me to delete it: writethelongletter@gmail.com.