EFFECTIVE DATE: 2026-08-14
THIS POLICY DESCRIBES THE SITE AS BUILT · REVIEWED AT EACH REDESIGN
The short version
This site is operated by Steven Milanese. It is static-first and collects almost nothing: there are no ad trackers, no third-party analytics scripts, no cookies for browsing, and no accounts.
What is processed, and when
- Consulting Gilfoyle. Messages you type into the footnote engine are sent to Anthropic's API to generate the reply, with a conversation tail kept in your browser for context. Don't submit personal data; the transcript is not stored server-side.
- Rate limiting. To throttle abusive request bursts, your IP address is hashed on arrival and only the resulting identifier is kept — for at most one hour, then it expires. The address itself is never stored, and nothing here is used for profiling.
- View counts. Essay pages increment an anonymous counter. No identifier is attached to you.
- Webmentions. When another site tells us it has linked to an article, we record the notifying page's address and the time the notice arrived. Nothing is published from it and nothing is fetched about you — only that one site said it linked here.
- Local storage. A few preferences live only in your browser: sound on/off and progress markers for the site's hidden diversions. Clearing site data removes them.
Third parties
- Anthropic — processes Gilfoyle conversations to generate replies.
- Cloudflare — serves the site and sees traffic metadata as any CDN does.
Your rights
Write to contact@stevenmilanese.com to ask what is held about you, to see it, or to have it deleted. There is very little to hand over, which makes the answer quick: expect a reply within 30 days.
Questions
Anything else, same address: contact@stevenmilanese.com.