Privacy Policy
No cookies, no advertising, no accounts: what Arcana keeps, what it counts, and what reaches anyone else when you read it.
Last updated: 14 November 2026
Arcana is a static website: a set of pages to read. There are no accounts, no comments and no advertising. This page explains the little that does happen when you visit, including how we count visits.
- No cookies and no advertising. A visit counter from Cloudflare counts how often pages are read, in totals only, without cookies.
- Three settings stay in your browser: your language, your furigana level and your text size.
- The fonts come from Google Fonts, which sees your IP address when it sends them.
- The images come from Cloudinary, which sees your IP address when it sends them.
- An email to us is used only to read it and answer it.
Cookies and visit statistics
Arcana sets no cookies. To see which stories are read, we count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, a service of Cloudflare, which already delivers the site. Each time a page loads, a small script from Cloudflare records the page, the page that linked to it and how quickly the page loaded, and, from the request itself, the country and the type of browser and device. It does not record anything after a question mark in the address. Cloudflare says that the counter uses no cookies or local storage to follow visitors and does not fingerprint them. We see only totals, such as how often a story was read and from which countries, never a list of single visits, and nothing in them tells us who you are. Cloudflare describes the service in its Web Analytics documentation and its privacy policy.
Search runs in your browser; what you type into it is not sent to us.
Settings your browser remembers
Your browser keeps a few of your choices in its local storage, so that the site remembers them the next time you visit:
| Name | What it remembers | When it is kept |
|---|---|---|
blog_lang | the language you chose | when you choose a language |
arcana:furigana | the furigana level on Japanese stories | when you turn furigana on |
arcana:text-size | the text size of the stories | when you change it from the usual size |
They stay on your device and are never sent to us. You can remove them by clearing this site’s data in your browser.
What the servers see
Like every website, Arcana receives the technical details of each request: your IP address, the page you asked for, the time, and your browser’s user agent. Arcana is delivered through Cloudflare, which handles this traffic, and our web server keeps standard access logs. We use this information only to keep the site running and secure. We do not use it to identify you or to build a profile of you, and we do not sell or share it. Cloudflare describes its own handling in the Cloudflare privacy policy.
Fonts
The site’s fonts are loaded from Google Fonts. When your browser fetches them from Google’s servers, Google receives your IP address and user agent as part of that request. Google explains how it handles this in the Google Fonts privacy FAQ.
Images
The site’s images are delivered by Cloudinary. When your browser fetches them from Cloudinary’s servers, Cloudinary receives your IP address and user agent as part of each image request. Cloudinary explains how it handles this in its privacy policy.
If you write to [email protected], we use your address and your message only to read and answer it. We do not add you to any list.
Links to other sites
Stories link to sources on other websites. Those sites have their own privacy policies, which this one does not cover.
Changes
If anything here changes, for example if we add a new service, this page will be updated at the same time and the date at the top will change.