What we keep,
and what we don’t

The short version. If you join the press list we keep your email address so we can tell you when there is a book. Nothing else. We do not sell it, rent it or share it, and you can leave in one click. After that we keep the address on a do-not-contact list, because that is the only way to be certain nothing is ever sent to it again, and we clear everything else. Ask us to erase it completely and we will.

What is collected

What you type into a form: your email address, and for the contact form a subject and a message. Stored alongside it, because we did not type that either: the page you sent it from, the referring link, your country, and the IP address the request came from. That is the record showing you asked to join. There is no advertising pixel, no third-party tracker and no cookie set by this site.

How we count reading

We count page views, on our own server. When you open a page, your browser tells us which page it was and which site you came from, and that is the whole of it. It is written down as a page, a date and an hour.

What is deliberately not recorded: no cookie, no visitor or device identifier of any kind, no IP address, and not the browser string. Only whether the screen was a phone, a tablet or a desktop. If you arrived from a search we keep the name of the search engine and never the words you typed.

Because there is no identifier, these counts cannot be tied back to a person, including by us. They are held in a separate database from the mailing list and the two are never joined: what you read is not attached to your address. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, nothing is recorded at all.

Third parties

One, and it is not one that sees you browsing: Cloudflare hosts this site and the database behind the forms, and processes what you submit on our behalf and nothing else. Every asset on this page (every image, stylesheet and typeface) is served from this site. There is no third-party analytics service, no advertising pixel, no tracker and no cookie. The page views described above are counted by this site itself and go nowhere else.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.

Your choices

Every email will carry an unsubscribe link that works in one click. Until the mail is switched on, write and ask. We will take you off the same day. You can also ask what is held about you, or ask for it to be deleted, and it will be.

Accessibility

This site is built to WCAG 2.2 level AA and tested against it, though it has not been independently audited. Every page is keyboard operable with a visible focus ring, text meets the contrast minimum in both light and dark, images carry alternative text, and nothing depends on colour alone. If something here is hard to use, please say so through the contact form and it will be fixed.

Who to ask

East Nashville Press, 1624 Fatherland St, Nashville, TN 37206, through the contact form.

Last updated 1 September 2026.