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title: "Privacy Policy"
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description: "How michaelferrara.org collects, uses, and protects your information."
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---
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_Last updated: July 2026_
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This policy explains what information this site collects through use of
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michaelferrara.org, and what happens to it.
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## What this site collects
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Depending on how you use the site, that may include:
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- Your name, email address, and message, when you submit the contact form.
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- Your email address, if you sign up for the free short story.
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- Your email address and name, if given, if you opt in to ongoing updates.
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This site doesn't use third-party analytics, ad trackers, or tracking
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pixels. Everything above runs on infrastructure operated directly —
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nothing is handed to a third-party marketing platform.
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## Why this site collects it
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- To respond to messages sent through the contact form.
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- To deliver the short story you signed up for.
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- To send periodic updates to people who've explicitly opted in — never
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as a side effect of simply using the site.
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## What this site doesn't do
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- This site doesn't sell or rent your information to anyone.
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- This site doesn't share it with third parties except the infrastructure
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providers necessary to run the site and send email (e.g. the hosting
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provider and its network) — none of whom get to use it for their own
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purposes.
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## Your control over it
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- **Unsubscribe**: every ongoing-update email includes an unsubscribe
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link. Clicking it removes you from that list immediately.
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- **The free short story**: this is a one-off signup with no ongoing
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subscription — once you've received it, there's nothing further to opt
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out of unless you also joined the ongoing updates list.
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- **Deletion**: reach out through [the contact form](/contact/) and
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your information will be deleted from these systems.
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## Security
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Your information is stored on infrastructure controlled directly, not
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handed off to third-party SaaS platforms. That doesn't make it
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invulnerable — no system is — but it does mean there's exactly one place
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your data lives, and one party accountable for it.
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## Changes
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If this policy changes in a way that matters, the date at the top of this
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page will be updated.
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## Questions
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[Get in touch](/contact/).
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