Pocket Dread is a small audio-story site. Here is everything it keeps, in plain words.
Your place in each story is stored on your own device, in your browser. It never leaves it. There is no account for listening, no advertising, no third-party analytics, and no tracking cookies.
We do count. Each page keeps a tally of how often it was opened, begun, and finished, whether the device was a phone, and which site sent you here. To count a visitor once a day, we hash your address and browser with a secret that changes daily; that hash is kept for two days and cannot be turned back into you. Nothing about you is stored on our side beyond those tallies.
Payment is handled by Stripe. We never see your card. Stripe sends us your email address and the record of what you bought, and that is the only personal information we keep. We use it to let you sign back in and play what you own, and for nothing else. We do not sell it, share it, or send you marketing.
Signing in on another device is a one-time code sent to the email address you bought with. The code expires in fifteen minutes.
Reply to your Stripe receipt and ask, and we will remove your email and purchase records. You will lose access to what you bought.
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