What we keep, and what we don't.

Two things, and only if you choose to:

• —Your email address. It is the only field on the page and the only thing you type. We use it to tell you when the register opens, and to send you occasional updates about it afterwards — nothing else, and nothing from anybody else.
• —The tag on the link you followed, if it had one. It tells us which invitation brought you here. It describes the link, not you.

There is no account, no password, no profile, and nothing else to fill in. We do not ask for your name, your phone number, your address, your employer or anything about your circumstances, and there is nowhere on this page to tell us.

There is a checkbox on the form and it starts empty. Nothing is recorded unless you tick it, and ticking it agrees to exactly one thing: “Yes, write to me when the register opens.”

We keep the moment you agreed and the wording you were shown, so that if the wording ever changes we can still tell you what you actually agreed to rather than what the form says today. It also means we can never claim you agreed to something that was not on the screen at the time.

Consent is the whole basis on which we hold your address. Withdraw it and the entry goes — there is no separate “legitimate interest” we fall back on to keep writing to you.

When you submit the form, your IP address is immediately turned into a scrambled value and only that value is stored. The original is never written down.

The scrambling cannot be undone. Nothing about you can be worked out from what we keep — not your location, not your city or country, not your internet provider, not your network, not your device, and not who you are. It is not an address in disguise; it is a value that is useless for anything except noticing that two submissions came from the same place.

That is its only job: stopping one source from flooding the register with entries. It is never used to identify you, to work out where you are, to group you with anyone else, or for any other purpose whatsoever.

We may measure how this page is used, purely to make the product better. If we do, it is limited to anonymous, aggregate counts — how many people arrived, roughly what kind of device they were on, and which pages they saw.

Anything of this kind is never connected to your email address or to your entry in the register, never used to build a profile of you, never combined with information bought from anyone else, and never used to follow you to another website.

We currently use Vercel Web Analytics for this, within the limits above.

One cookie, set only if you actually join the register, holding only your reference — the HEIR-0000-0000 code you were shown. It is what lets this page recognise you when you come back and show you your entry instead of an empty form asking you to do something you have already done.

It carries nothing else. Not who you are, not your address, not where you have been, and nothing that could be read by another site — it is marked so that no script can read it, only our own server. Clearing it is a button on the page (“Add a different address”), and clearing it does not remove you from the register.

Nothing else sets a cookie here. No advertising, no cross-site tracking, no consent banner — because that one cookie is the only one there is, and it only exists because you asked to be in the register.

One exception: we use Google reCAPTCHA v3 to tell people from automated scripts. It may set a cookie or read limited technical information from your browser in order to do that, and it is used for no other purpose.

• —Sell, rent, trade or share your address with anyone.
• —Show you advertising, or hand your address to an advertising network.
• —Track you across other websites or apps.
• —Buy information about you from data brokers, or enrich what you gave us with anything bought elsewhere.
• —Send you anything you did not ask for, sell you anything, or pass you to anyone who will.

The people who run this product, and the companies that host it — a hosting provider and a database provider, who store the data on our behalf and are not permitted to use it for anything of their own.

Otherwise: nobody, unless the law requires it of us and we have no lawful way to refuse.

For as long as you want to hear from us, and no longer. Ask us to remove you and the entry is deleted — not flagged, not hidden, not kept for our records. If the register never opens, or we abandon it, the addresses go with it.

Ask us and we will delete your entry. You do not need an account, a form, or a reason, and we will not try to talk you out of it.

Depending on where you live you may also have the right to ask what we hold about you, to have it corrected, to get a copy, or to object to our using it. The same request reaches a person for all of those.

This page is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly keep an address belonging to one. If you believe we have, tell us and it will be deleted.

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. If a change materially affects what we do with an address we already hold, we will say so at the address we hold.

Heires is responsible for the information described here.