What this site knows about you
Privacy
Not who you are. There is no account to make, no form to fill in, no newsletter, and nothing to buy. You can read the whole magazine without telling us anything. What we do keep is a record of how the pages are used, and this page says exactly what that is.
What is recorded on every visit
As you read, your browser sends us small notes about what you do: which page you opened, each page you turned and how long you spent on it, the buttons and links you tapped, how far you scrolled, whether you printed, whether you opened the large-print view, and any error the page ran into. Each note carries the time, the size of your screen, your browser's language, the country your connection appears to be in, and whether the device is a phone, a tablet or a computer.
None of it says who you are. We do not record your name, your email address, your IP address, or your browser's full description. The only thing that ties one visit to the next is a random code your browser makes up the first time it opens the site, stored in your own browser under lilac-glen-visitor. It is not a cookie, it is never sent anywhere except with these notes, and clearing your browser data makes a new one.
We use this to see which pages are read and which are not, and to catch pages that break. It is kept in a database of our own and shared with no one.
If you accept the cookie banner
We also load Microsoft Clarity, which is the only thing on this site that comes from anyone else.
Clarity sets two cookies, _clck and _clsk, and records how the pages are used: clicks, scrolling, mouse movement, your device and browser, screen size, and an approximate location worked out from your address. Typed input is hidden from it by default.
If you decline, none of that loads. Not the script, not the cookies, not a single request — the page simply never asks for it. The notes described above are recorded either way.
Kept in your browser
Your answer to the cookie banner, under lilac-glen-consent, so it stops asking; the random visitor code above; and the text size you last chose in the large-print view. None of these is a cookie, and clearing your browser data removes them all.
Subscribers have one cookie of ours: opening the whole issue from a subscriber link sets lilac-glen-subscriber, which holds the link's code for a year so the plain address keeps working. It is sent only to this site, is used for nothing else, and clearing your browser data removes it.
Changing your mind
Clear this site's data in your browser settings and the banner returns, as though you had never answered, and your visitor code is forgotten, so anything recorded after that is not connected to what came before. If you had accepted, clearing also removes the Clarity cookies.
Other people's parts
The site is hosted by Vercel, whose servers keep ordinary access logs, as every web server does, and the notes above are stored in a database at Neon.
The Facebook and Messenger buttons are plain links. Nothing from Meta runs on these pages, and nothing is shared with them until you follow one — at which point you are on their site, under their terms.
Children
Letters from Lilac Glen is a magazine for small children, written to be read aloud to them. This website is meant for the grown-up doing the reading: the buying, the printing and the browsing are all yours.
Nothing here asks a reader for their name, their age, or anything else about them.
Asking us anything
Message us and ask. It is the only way to reach us at the moment, and it reaches a person.