A site about privacy settings ought to be clear about its own. Everything Drakoniquand holds is listed below in full, rather than as a list of categories that might apply. It operates under the Privacy Act 2020 and the information privacy principles in it.
Who is responsible
Drakoniquand (drakoniquand.com) is published by Mason Taylor, Dunedin, New Zealand. Any request under this policy goes to [email protected], where a person reads it.
What is collected
- Delivery logs. The hosting provider and the content delivery network record the IP address, the page requested, the time, the referring page and the browser user agent for each request. Every web server does this, and it is needed to serve the site and to investigate abuse.
- Your answer to the cookie notice. Stored in your own browser, on your own device, containing one word, and never transmitted to the server.
- Correspondence. Your name, email address and message if you write, kept for as long as answering it requires.
There is no account system, no newsletter, no advertising identifier, no fingerprinting and no per-reader record of which pages were read. Those mechanisms are absent from the site rather than merely switched off.
Why it is held
- To keep the site available, correct and secure.
- To answer correspondence that you start.
- To meet a legal obligation, where one applies to a specific record.
Measurement and advertising scripts are not loaded until you accept them. Declining leaves every page complete and readable; nothing is held back to encourage consent.
The two forms, and Telegram
One form is on the contact page and one on the handbook page. Both collect a name, an email address and a message; the handbook form also records which item you selected. No payment is processed anywhere on this site, so no card number, bank detail or delivery address is ever requested here.
When a form is submitted the message is delivered to me through the Telegram Bot API. Telegram therefore processes the content of the message as part of transmitting it, under its own terms. This is disclosed because it would otherwise be invisible to you, and because it is relevant to what you choose to write.
Your details are used to reply and for nothing else: no list, no marketing, no sharing. For a general message the basis is your own request to be contacted; for an order it is the steps you asked me to take before a contract, and then performing it. Order correspondence is kept longer than a general enquiry, because a question about a purchase can arrive months later.
Each form carries a field that is invisible to a person and only ever completed by automated submissions. If it arrives filled in, the message is discarded without being read.
Who else is involved
- The hosting provider, which stores these files and serves them to your browser.
- Cloudflare, which sits in front of the site as a content delivery network.
- Telegram, for the single delivery step described above, and only if you use a form.
No analytics provider, tag manager, social widget, embedded video or external font is loaded on any page. Every asset comes from this domain, which takes about ten seconds to confirm in a browser's network panel.
Links out to the app stores
The guides link to official Google Play and App Store listings. Once you follow one, Google's or Apple's privacy terms apply instead of this policy. Nothing comes back to Drakoniquand from that visit, and this site has no way of knowing whether you installed anything.
How long records are kept
Delivery logs are held for a short operational period and then discarded or reduced to aggregate counts. Correspondence is kept while the matter is live and for a reasonable period afterwards. Your cookie answer stays in your browser until you clear it, and the cookie policy explains how.
Your rights
Under the Privacy Act 2020 you may ask for access to the personal information held about you and ask for it to be corrected if it is wrong. Write to [email protected]; the response normally comes within 20 working days. For most readers the honest answer is a short-lived server log and nothing else, and that is what you will be told.
If you are not satisfied with how a privacy matter was handled, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner at privacy.org.nz accepts complaints. Readers in the European Union may also contact their own supervisory authority.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and anything material is described in the opening paragraph for a period afterwards.