Privacy on this site.

Browsing and hosting

Cloudflare hosts the website, its private database and uploaded files. Hosting and security services may process standard request information and operational logs. This website does not claim to eliminate provider-side records.

Saved titles and reader accounts

Without an account, Saved Library and reading preferences stay in your browser. An optional reader account stores your verified email, display name, saved titles, reading position, reading states, private shelves and notes, basket selections and order history in the House’s private Cloudflare storage, allowing supported data to synchronize across devices. Signing in does not subscribe you to newsletters. Account sessions use first-party, HttpOnly cookies lasting up to seven days; sign-in links expire after ten minutes and work once. You can sign out every device from your account.

Your Dark, Light or System appearance choice is stored locally and may use the existing first-party preference cookie. The Salon planner creates its download in your browser. Clearing browser storage can remove local preferences and unsigned-in saved titles.

Your account controls

Your account offers a downloadable copy of your information, verified email changes and deliberate account closure. Email changes verify both inboxes and sign out every device. Closure requires fresh email verification and a separate final confirmation. It disables sign-in and removes your reading data, basket, display name and active book-alert preferences. Paid orders, editorial submissions, security and opt-out records remain for the stated service purposes; contact the House for help accessing retained purchases after closure. Publishing staff email changes require publisher assistance to protect assignments.

Email and book alerts

Requested sign-in links, staff invitations, purchase notices and confirmed book updates are sent through Resend when the House has connected email delivery. Book alerts require confirmation of your email. You can choose individual titles or House news, change your preferences, and unsubscribe using the links in a message or the Book Alerts page. Signed delivery, bounce and complaint events help diagnose delivery and suppress future book alerts to affected addresses. The site keeps subscription preferences and minimal consent, delivery and opt-out records to operate the service and honor your choices.

General contact links still open your email application; you decide whether to send that correspondence. Mailbox handling and retention are separate from this website.

Private author and editorial work

Invited authors and editors can access assigned works, upload private submissions and exchange editorial feedback. The House stores those files, revisions and activity records privately. A portal submission or editorial acceptance does not publish a manuscript: the publisher must separately approve a public release. Do not submit material you are not authorized to share.

Payments and purchased editions

When direct sales are enabled for an available edition, Stripe hosts checkout and handles payment details. The House stores order references, purchased editions, payment and fulfillment status, and shipping details when physical delivery requires them. It does not collect or store card numbers. Payment and order records may need to be retained after an account or newsletter request. Downloads for purchased digital editions require the purchasing account. Order-linked support stores your messages, House replies and case status privately with your order. Support requests, including refund requests, require review and do not execute a refund. Fulfillment updates may send transactional shipment emails using the contact information attached to the order. These messages record publisher updates rather than carrier-confirmed delivery. Support and notification records may be retained with transaction records after account closure. Guest baskets contain edition identifiers and quantities in this browser for up to thirty days. Signed-in baskets are stored privately with your account and can synchronize across devices; prices and stock are checked again by the server at checkout. Browser basket storage contains no card details.

Optional audience insights

Audience insights are off until you choose to allow them. The first-party endpoint records aggregate page views, book views, sample visits, saved-title actions and searches that found no results. It creates no visitor profile or advertising identifier. Search terms are restricted to public catalogue vocabulary; other text is grouped rather than stored verbatim. Reports cover a rolling ninety-day window; older aggregates are removed during routine request processing. Browser Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control disable collection. Change your choice using the privacy control in the footer.

Short-lived abuse-prevention counters use keyed hashes rather than raw IP addresses in the application database. Cloudflare’s own security logs remain subject to its service settings.

External services

Typeface files are served by this website. External retailer links, Stripe checkout, Resend email delivery and the identity provider used for publisher owner access have their own service practices. These providers receive information needed for the feature you choose to use.

Questions, access and deletion requests

Contact the House from the relevant email address to request access to, correction of, or deletion of account or correspondence information. The account controls handle supported reader requests; other requests require human handling and identity checks. Opening a page is not confirmation that a request has been completed. Order, editorial, security, opt-out and private backup records may require separate review. Keep passwords, card details and confidential manuscripts out of general enquiry emails.

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