Privacy

Files a page brings with it

Every page here is static HTML, generated ahead of time and stored on a single server. Opening one also fetches a stylesheet, two font families and a handful of photographs, all from that same server and nowhere else. The fonts are Alegreya and Alegreya Sans, free typefaces released under the SIL Open Font License and copied onto this server rather than requested from a font provider. The photographs are licensed stock images, cropped and stored here as well. No file on any page comes from a third party, so reading here is invisible to every outside company.

The site contains no JavaScript. It writes no cookies and nothing to local storage, counts no visitors, shows no advertising and embeds no videos, maps, comment boxes or share buttons. With nothing placed in the browser, no consent banner is needed and none appears.

What the web server records

Requests are answered by nginx. Each file served adds one entry to the access log, holding seven fields: the IP address of the request, when it came, which path it wanted, the status code nginx returned, the byte count nginx sent back, any referring page the browser reported, and the browser’s self-description, known as its user agent. A request that fails can also leave an entry, with the IP address, in a separate error log.

A new log file starts each day, and each one is erased on its fourteenth day. Nobody reads the logs except to trace a broken page or to shut out floods of automated traffic. No log is ever sold or handed on, and no effort is made to match them to anyone.

Email

Writing to editor@friendsofcedarmesa.org means the message arrives with the sender’s address attached. The address and the message serve one purpose, replying, plus checking the facts when the message reports a mistake. They go on no mailing list, are shown to no one else, and are erased whenever the sender asks.

Following a link out

Many pieces point to an agency, a museum, a tribal government or a statute. Clicking through takes the reader to another organization’s website, where its own data rules take over.

Asking about any of this

Questions about this page, and requests to erase a message, can be sent using the contact page. Any answer will be short, since nothing exists beyond two weeks of log lines and the message itself.

This account describes the site as it runs from December 2026. A change to how it works would be noted here, with its date.