Privacy
Privacy policy
This page is not finished, and we would rather say so than publish a policy we have not verified. What follows is the structure of the policy with each open question marked. Until it is complete, the only accurate statement we can make is the contact address below.
Questions about your data in the meantime: neon@neonandsmoke.com.
What this policy will cover
Each section below is real and required. None of them is filled in with a plausible guess.
Effective date
There is no date on this policy, because there is no policy for a date to attach to. When one is written, it will carry the day it took effect and the day it was last changed.
Who is responsible for your data
Neon & Smoke is an independent magazine run from Dallas, Texas. Which legal entity that is — a person, a sole proprietorship, a company — is not something we are going to state until we have it right, because it is the answer to “who do I complain to”.
What we collect, and when
Three places on this site can take something from you: the contact form, the newsletter sign-up and, when it exists, the submission route. What each one keeps, and why, is not yet written down here field by field.
Who else processes it
Your data would pass through a host, a form handler and a mailing-list provider before it reached us. We are not going to name companies here until the deployment is settled — a list that is wrong about where your address ends up is worse than no list.
Cookies and analytics
This site sets no cookies, serves no ads, and does no cross-site
tracking. To see how many people visit and how fast pages load, we
use two privacy-first services, each configured to run without
cookies:
Cloudflare
Web Analytics for page views and load performance, and
Google
Analytics, which we run with Google Consent Mode set to deny
storage — so it never writes the usual _ga cookie and
does not personalise or identify you. Both record only aggregate
figures (page views, referrers, country, load performance); none
builds a profile of you, and none follows you to other sites. No
advertising or social scripts load anywhere here.
How long it is kept
We have not set a retention period for enquiries, subscriptions or submissions. A number here would be a commitment, and we have not made one.
Your rights, and how to use them
Which rights you have depends on where you are — Texas and the wider US, or the UK and EU if you send us work from there — and on advice we have not taken yet. Listing them from a template is how people end up believing they have a right they do not have.
How to reach us about your data
This one is answerable now: neon@neonandsmoke.com. Everything else on this page waits on the sections above.