What may be processed
Phainox is published as a simple editorial site. There are no reader accounts, public profiles, or gated features required to access the archive.
Ordinary visits may still leave technical records such as IP address, browser details, requested pages, referral data, and timestamps. That is standard website infrastructure, not a claim that every visit is being exhaustively profiled.
If you contact the publication directly, the contents of your message and the practical metadata around it may be kept so the exchange can be answered, understood, and referred back to if needed.
Why information may be used
Technical records may be used to keep the site available, diagnose failures, limit abuse, and review security issues if something goes wrong.
Correspondence may be kept for ordinary editorial reasons: to reply, follow up, preserve context, or resolve a question without starting from scratch each time.
The operating preference is to collect less, keep the site readable, and avoid turning ordinary readership into a profile-building exercise.
Retention and scope
Records are kept only for as long as they remain useful for operation, security, or correspondence. Some retention periods may also be set by hosting or service providers rather than by the publication itself.
This notice will be revised if the way the site is run changes in a material way.
Contact
Privacy questions can be sent to me@phainox.com.