Privacy

This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics and has no accounts or forms. Like any website, the server that delivers it keeps a short-lived access log, described below.

What is not collected by the pages

No JavaScript runs in your browser on any page of this site - nothing executes beyond displaying the page. There are no cookies. There is no analytics service, no advertising network, no social media embed, and no third-party font, image or executable script of any kind. Nothing on these pages is loaded from anywhere other than this site.

Structured data

Pages on this site carry a block of structured data (JSON-LD, a W3C/schema.org standard) describing the author, the press, or the book on that page - the same kind of information already visible in the page's own text, in a format search engines can read directly. It does not execute, does not set a cookie, does not track you, and does not send anything anywhere; it is read only by whatever already requested the page.

No page has a form. There is no account to create, no newsletter to join, and no way to submit information through this site even if you wanted to.

Server records

Like any web server, the one that delivers this site keeps an access log of each request: the time, the page asked for, the network address, the browser or program making the request, and whether the request succeeded. We use it to see which pages are read, to find broken links and other problems, and to tell people apart from automated visitors such as search engines and AI crawlers. We do not use it to follow anyone from site to site, and it is not linked to a name or an account, because this site has none. The log is kept for 14 days and then deleted. It is held by Amazon Web Services, which hosts the site.

From the same log we also add up, each day, how many page views came from each country, meaning the country your network address appears to be in. We keep only those totals, so we can see where readers are interested in the books. The totals do not include your address, your browser or anything that could identify you, and many people use a VPN, so they are a hint about interest, not a map of readers.

We also count how many different visitors come and how many come back. For each visitor we make a short one-way code from the network address and browser type in that same log, using a secret that changes every 28 days. The code cannot be turned back into your address, is not linked to a name, email or order, and is deleted within about six weeks. We make it from the log, not from any script on a page, and we leave out visitors we recognise as automated, such as search engines and AI crawlers. We use only the counts, to see how many people read and return. We do not use cookies and we do not use advertising or tracking services.

If you write to us

The contact page offers a mailing address and an email address, and nothing else - no form, no newsletter signup. If you write to Hilton, he has your letter, or your email address and whatever you chose to put in the message, for as long as it is kept. That is ordinary correspondence rather than data collection, and it is used only to reply to you.

Buying a book

Nothing is sold on this site, and none is planned. Books are sold from Silver Mountain Press, linked from every page here.

Changes

This page carries the build date in the footer of every page. If it changes, that date changes with it.