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Privacy & analytics

This site does not track you. Here is exactly what that means.

Some of the people this wiki is written for are researching a federal prosecution. Some of them are researching their own. A site that serves those readers does not get to be casual about surveillance, so this page says precisely what is collected, what is not, and where the one exception lives. No legalese. If anything here is unclear, email danny@thetatteredrose.com and it will be rewritten until it is.

The default, for every visitor

  • No accounts, no profiles, no tracking cookies from this site. Reading this site requires nothing and stores nothing that identifies you. (Embedded third-party documents are the caveat — see the next section.)
  • Aggregate, cookieless analytics.The site uses Vercel Web Analytics: no cookies, no cross-site tracking, and visitors are told apart only by an anonymized hash that Vercel discards daily. What Danny sees is aggregate — page counts and coarse breakdowns like country, browser, and referring site. It answers “how many people read this page”; it is built not to answer “who.”
  • Hosting logs. The site is served by Vercel, and like every host it processes IP addresses to deliver pages and absorb attacks. That is transport, not analytics: this project keeps no visitor log of its own and does not use any of it to identify readers.
  • Settings stay in your browser.A few features (the analytics switch below, reader-poll choices, a display name you type for comments) keep their state in your browser's own local storage. You can inspect or clear it any time; none of it is sent anywhere.
  • Your browser's privacy signal is honored. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, this site treats it as final — it even overrides the opt-in switch below.

What loads from someone else, and only when

  • Embedded court documents. A few pages embed source documents from DocumentCloud (and if video embeds ship later, the same rule applies). Those services load only on the pages that contain them, and their own policies govern what they see when they do.
  • The contact form. Submissions go through Formspree and send what you type plus which page you were commenting on (so the comment can be placed).
  • Donate links. The defendant-fund links go to GoFundMe and ActBlue. Following one leaves this site; nothing about the click is recorded here.
  • The email list. Signups go to Buttondown, chosen for its defaults: double opt-in, no tracking pixel in the emails, one-click export if you ever want out.

The one exception, and it is yours to flip: the Meta Pixel

There is one tracker this site can run, and it is off unless you turn it on: Facebook's Meta Pixel. Plain words about what opting in does — it loads Facebook's tracking script, which sets Meta cookies in your browser and tells Meta your IP address, the pages you read here, and enough to tie the visit to your Facebook identity if you have one. Meta keeps that data under its own policies, uses it for ad targeting, and can be made to produce it in legal proceedings.

If you are reading this site because you or someone you love is facing prosecution, leave it off. That is not fine print; it is the reason the default is off.

Why offer it at all? Honestly: Danny builds websites for a living, was recently laid off, and is learning Meta's ad tooling because clients pay for that skill. Opting in gives him real traffic to learn on. It does not fund the Broadview Six — their defense funds are separate and stay the site's first ask. If that trade does not sit right with you, keep the switch off and nothing changes about your visit.

The switch

Checking this browser's setting…

Turning it off stops all future collection in this browser and deletes the Meta cookies this site can reach. It cannot recall what Meta already received — no site can honestly promise that.

Changes

If what this site collects ever changes, this page changes first, in plain words, before anything new runs. The project's standing posture is on the about page.