What Information Do We Collect Under Our Privacy Policy?
A plain-language guide to what Hopskoch gathers when you visit, how we hold onto it, and how you can ask us to delete it.
Last updated: 12 February 2025
Introduction
Hopskoch is a publication about transmedia storytelling, interactive design, and the people building at the edges of digital media. This policy covers the site you're reading right now.
We wrote it to be read, not skimmed past. No buried clauses, no legal fog. The goal is simple: tell you what we collect, why we collect it, and what you can do about it.
If something here is unclear, the Contact Us page is the fastest way to reach a human.
Purposes of Processing
Most of what we collect exists to keep the site running and to make the next visit better than the last one.
Three reasons cover nearly everything. We use technical data to maintain and improve the site — fixing what breaks, tuning what loads slowly. We watch performance through analytics so we know which articles actually get read and which pages quietly fail. And when you reach out, we keep enough of the conversation to reply properly.
That's the whole list. We don't sell profiles, and we don't build dossiers on readers for their own sake.
External Services
Running a site means leaning on other companies, and a few of them touch your data along the way.
Analytics
We use analytics tooling to understand traffic patterns. Additional measurement platforms may be introduced later, and this section will be updated when they are.
Ad Networks
We don't currently run third-party advertising. Ad network integration is planned, and any personalization it involves will be reflected here before it goes live.
Hosting & CDN
Our hosting and content-delivery providers process technical request data — such as your IP address, purely to serve pages and absorb traffic spikes.
Information Collected
Here's the concrete part. There are three buckets, and two of them only fill up if you choose to share something.
Technical logs are automatic. When your browser requests a page, our servers record things like your IP address, browser type, and the pages you visited. This is the same baseline almost every website keeps.
Contact submissions are deliberate. If you email us or fill in a form, we hold the message and whatever details you included so we can respond.
Subscription inputs work the same way. Sign up for updates and we store the address you gave us — nothing more.
Cookies and Tracking
Cookies are small files your browser stores on our behalf. We group ours into three kinds, and you stay in control of most of them.
Strictly Necessary
These handle consent choices and session state. The site can't function correctly without them, so they aren't optional.
Analytics
These record visit patterns and performance so we can see what's working. They're set only with your agreement.
Advertising
Reserved for future ad personalization. None are active today; when that changes, you'll be asked first.
Your browser is the master switch. Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies through its settings, and you can clear ours at any point. Turning off the necessary ones may break parts of the site, which is the trade-off worth knowing about.
Data Subject Rights
The data is yours, and you can act on it.
You can ask to see the personal data we hold, request its deletion, or opt out of analytics tracking. To start any of these, email us through the Contact Us page and tell us what you'd like done.
We'll confirm your request and follow through. No fee, no runaround.
Storage & Deletion
We keep data only as long as the purpose behind it lasts. Technical logs roll off after their useful window; contact and subscription details stay until you ask us to remove them or until they no longer serve a reason to exist.
When a deletion request comes in, we erase the relevant records from our active systems and instruct connected services to do the same. Some details may persist briefly in routine backups before those cycles overwrite them — an honest limit of how backups work rather than a loophole.
Policy Updates
This policy will change as the site grows, especially once advertising arrives. When we make a meaningful update, we'll revise the date at the top of this page and, where the change is significant, flag it more visibly.
Reading the current version is always enough to know where you stand. For anything that isn't covered, our Terms of Service and the Contact Us page fill the gaps.