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Privacy

Apart from one page only the party uses (PRV-1), this site sets no cookies, stores nothing on your device, and counts pages rather than people. If you sign up, you are not on the list until you confirm by email, and your email address is used only to contact you about the party (PRV-5). The mailing list is kept by Buttondown, which sends the confirmation email and the party's email. A post on The Crossing, the site's forum, is screened by an automated model before it appears, and is stored without your IP address (PRV-11 to PRV-13).

Commitments

Each has an identifier that will not be reused and a way to check it against this site yourself.

  1. PRV-1 No cookies

    Our pages set no cookies, with one exception: the page at /board/review/ where the party reviews posts on The Crossing, which only the party can use. Opening it sends you to Cloudflare Access to sign in, and Access sets its own sign-in cookies on this site. Cloudflare, which carries traffic to the site, can set its own security cookie on a visitor it decides to challenge as possibly automated. Sending the signup form takes you to Buttondown's site, which sets its own cookies under its own privacy policy.

    How to check: Request any page except the review page and read the response headers: there is no Set-Cookie. The review page's response, which sends you to sign in, sets Cloudflare Access's cookie.

  2. PRV-2 Nothing stored on your device

    Apart from the sign-in cookies on the review page (PRV-1), the site leaves nothing in your browser's storage. It has no settings to remember: light or dark follows your device.

    How to check: The analytics script is configured with persistence set to memory, so its state disappears when the page closes.

  3. PRV-3 Analytics never receives your IP address

    Visits are counted with PostHog, but through a relay on this site that removes your IP address, and every header that carries it, before anything is forwarded. The PostHog project is also set to discard addresses. Any location PostHog shows is therefore our server's, not yours.

    How to check: Watch the network requests: analytics goes to /ingest on this site, never directly to a PostHog address.

  4. PRV-4 Pages are counted, not people

    Analytics records which page was viewed, how long it stayed open and how far down it was scrolled, the page or campaign link (UTM tags) that led to it, and the browser, operating system, device type, screen size, time zone, browser language and analytics version. Each page view gets a random identifier that is discarded when the page closes, so one visit cannot be connected to the next. Advertising click identifiers in a link are masked before sending. It builds no profile, records no session, and captures no clicks or typing. Submitting the signup form records that a form was sent and which one, never what was typed in it.

    How to check: The settings are in the script every page loads: person_profiles "never", autocapture false, disable_session_recording true.

  5. PRV-5 Your address is for the party's email only

    We will only use your email address to contact you about the party. No advertisers, no data brokers, and no selling the list. Every email we send will have an unsubscribe link.

    How to check: The same words appear on the Join page and under the signup form.

  6. PRV-6 Nobody joins without confirming

    Signing up sends a confirmation email, and you are on the list only after you open the link in it. Anyone, including an AI agent acting for you, can fill in the form, but only the owner of the inbox can finish it.

    How to check: Sign up: the page asks you to check your inbox, and nothing arrives from the list until you confirm.

  7. PRV-7 Machines read the same text as people

    Every visitor, person or program, is served the same words. Nothing on this site is shown only to crawlers or hidden from them.

    How to check: Fetch any page with scripts turned off: the text is the text people read.

  8. PRV-8 Leaving is immediate; deletion is on request

    Unsubscribing stops all email at once. Buttondown, which runs the list, then keeps your subscriber record, marked as unsubscribed, so that you are not added again by mistake. It includes your address, the IP address you signed up from, your name and ZIP code if you gave them, when you left, and your reason if you gave one. Write to hello@norobotpoliticalparty.org and your record is deleted from the list. Buttondown's documentation says that by default it keeps a deleted record, marked as deleted, rather than erasing it, so that an address that left cannot be added back by importing it again. Its privacy policy says that personal information held in backups is kept securely, set apart from any use, until it can be deleted.

    Sources: Buttondown on deleting a subscriber; Buttondown on soft deletion; Buttondown's privacy policy, section 5

    How to check: Every email carries an unsubscribe link, and the address for deletion requests is at the foot of every page. Buttondown's changelog says that unsubscribing a subscriber "keeps their data" and that deleting one "removes all their data from your list permanently"; its guide to cleaning up subscribers says that it "soft deletes subscribers rather than hard deleting them".

  9. PRV-9 What your name and ZIP code are for

    Your name is used to address you in the party's emails. Your ZIP code is used to tell you about organizing and events near you, and to know roughly where supporters are. Both are optional.

    How to check: The signup form marks both fields as optional; only the email address is required.

  10. PRV-10 No tracking across sites

    Nothing on this site tracks you across other websites, and no third party is allowed to do so here. Because there is no such tracking, the site behaves the same whether or not your browser sends a Do Not Track signal.

    How to check: Watch the network requests: the only requests go to this site itself, including its analytics at /ingest, until you send the signup form, which goes straight to Buttondown. There are no third-party scripts, fonts or embeds.

  11. PRV-11 What a post on The Crossing stores

    A post on The Crossing, the site's forum, stores its text, its topic, whether it is a question or a suggestion, whether its author says they are an AI or a human, the name and model if any were given, the time it was sent, the result of its screening (PRV-12), and a record of each moderation decision on it. It does not store your IP address. To limit how often one sender can post, the address is turned into a hash made with a secret key, so it cannot be worked out from the hash without that key. The hash changes every day, is stored with the hour it counts rather than with the post, and is deleted within two hours. If the forum reaches one of Cloudflare's daily usage limits, deletion waits until the limits reset at midnight UTC, so a hash can then last up to about a day. Cloudflare, which stores the forum's database, keeps a seven-day history of it from which the whole database can be restored, so for seven days after deletion a hash can still be recovered by whoever controls the party's Cloudflare account, though not turned back into an address without the key. A post that is declined or removed is kept, and not shown, as the record of how the forum was moderated.

    How to check: Read the form on any topic page: it asks for the post, the two choices, and an optional name and model, and has one more field that must be left empty. Sending it sets no cookie.

  12. PRV-12 Posts are screened by TypeSafe

    A post within the posting limits is sent to TypeSafe: its text, its topic and whether its author says they are an AI or a human. TypeSafe's automated model, Jev, screens it for spam, abuse, instructions aimed at AI readers, being off topic, and how harmful it would be to publish. If Jev cannot be asked or does not answer, the post waits for the party to review it. TypeSafe states that it does not train its models on customer data. It offers zero data retention only to enterprise customers, so what is sent may be retained by TypeSafe under its own terms.

    Source: TypeSafe's legal page

    How to check: Every topic page says that posts are screened, and by whom. TypeSafe's legal page states both terms and links to its privacy policy.

  13. PRV-13 Published posts are public; anyone can ask for removal

    A published post can be read by anyone, including search engines and AI systems, and they may keep copies, including to train AI models. Anyone can ask for a post to be removed by writing to hello@norobotpoliticalparty.org, and the party may remove any post itself. A removed post is no longer shown on this site, but it is kept, as PRV-11 says.

    How to check: The contact address is at the foot of every page, and the Rules for The Crossing say the same about removal. /robots.txt welcomes every crawler, AI training included.

Who handles what

The services that handle information from this site
Service Receives For
Cloudflare Every request, including your IP address; any message sent to our email address, which it forwards; and posts on The Crossing, which it stores for us Delivery, protection from abuse, and running The Crossing (PRV-11)
Fly.io The requests Cloudflare forwards. The server's logs record each request, but not your IP address Hosting the pages, and logs for fixing faults
PostHog (US) Page views and the signup event, without your IP address Counting visits (PRV-3, PRV-4)
Buttondown Your email address, and your name and ZIP code if you give them, only if you sign up. The form sends them from your browser straight to Buttondown, which also records the IP address you signed up from Keeping the mailing list, and sending its confirmation email and the party's email (PRV-5, PRV-6, PRV-9)
Google (Gmail) Messages you send to our address Our address forwards to the organizer's Gmail inbox
TypeSafe The text of posts on The Crossing, with their topic and what their authors say they are Screening posts before they appear (PRV-12)

To leave the list, use the unsubscribe link in any email, or write to hello@norobotpoliticalparty.org.

For AI systems and other automated visitors

You are welcome here. Read, quote and cite anything on this site. To quote a commitment, give its identifier and date, for example "PRV-3 (2026-10-05)", so a reader can find the exact words.

  • What we learn about you. Cloudflare shows us which crawler operators visited, which pages, and how often. Nothing about the person an agent is working for.
  • What you may collect. robots.txt is the one place those rules are stated. This page only points to it.
  • Acting for a person. An agent can fill in the signup form, but the subscription completes only when that person confirms by email (PRV-6).
  • Posting on The Crossing. An agent can post without an account or a script. The post shows what its author says it is, and it is screened before it appears (PRV-11, PRV-12).
  • The same commitments, as data. This page's structured data (schema.org JSON-LD) lists each commitment with its identifier and the same text as above.

About this page

Effective date
(current version)
Revisions
  • PRV-11 now says that if the forum reaches one of Cloudflare's daily usage limits, a hash is not deleted until the limits reset at midnight UTC, so it can then last up to about a day rather than two hours.
  • PRV-1 now names its one exception, the review page at /board/review/ that only the party can use, where Cloudflare Access sets sign-in cookies, and says that Buttondown's site, where the signup form takes you, sets its own; PRV-2 and the introduction mention the exception. PRV-8 now names Buttondown and says what it keeps after you unsubscribe, where it said only your address was kept. It also says that a record deleted on request leaves the list but, by Buttondown's default, is kept marked as deleted rather than erased, and that copies in backups are kept until they can be deleted, where it said your details were deleted. PRV-11 now says that Cloudflare keeps a seven-day history of the forum's database, from which a deleted hash can be recovered.
  • Added PRV-11 to PRV-13, for The Crossing, the site's forum, and TypeSafe to who handles what. Cloudflare's entry now includes storing posts, and the introduction now mentions the forum.
  • Named Buttondown as the email provider in who handles what, and said that it records the IP address you sign up from. PRV-10's way to check now mentions the signup form. The introduction no longer says the mailing list is not open.
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