About consent
Conditions of inheritance
Every transmission is held under conditions its author chose. This page explains those conditions in plain language, including what the project cannot promise.
Visibility
- Private
- Preserve my transmission without publishing it. It is stored, counted as part of the inheritance, and never shown in the archive.
- Anonymous
- Publish it without identifying me.
- Signed
- Publish it with my chosen name.
- Sealed
- Keep it private until a date I choose. Until that date it behaves exactly like a private transmission. On the date you chose, it enters the public archive anonymously or signed, according to how you wrote it.
Separate permissions
Two further permissions are asked separately from visibility. Neither is bundled into publication, and both begin switched off.
Exhibition and publication. If granted, a transmission may appear in exhibitions, printed publications or performances of the project.
Machine-learning research. If granted, a transmission may be included in a potential future research project. No transmission is currently used to train any model. This permission only records a contributor's preference should such a project ever exist, and it is off by default.
The project will not intentionally use or license a transmission for machine training without explicit permission.
What we cannot promise
Anything published on a public web page can be read, copied, archived or indexed by third parties, including search engines and automated crawlers. We cannot promise that public writing will never be scraped, and we will not pretend otherwise.
If that possibility is unacceptable for what you want to write, choose Private or Sealed. Those transmissions are never returned by public queries and never rendered on a public page.
Moderation
Every transmission arrives as pending. A curator reads it before it can appear publicly. Transmissions are declined if they contain identifying private information about another person, harassment, or material that is not the contributor's to give.
A curator may correct an obvious formatting problem — a broken line break, a stray character. Meaning is never edited.
Storage, email and deletion
Text is stored in an access-controlled database. Handwritten scans and audio files are stored in private file storage and are only ever served through short-lived links generated for an approved public transmission.
Email addresses are optional, stored apart from the transmission itself, and never displayed publicly or included in any export.
Contributors who leave no email receive a private management key at the moment of transmission. Keeping that key, together with the transmission identifier, allows a transmission to be withdrawn later without any account. You can also request deletion using the form below.
Privacy and deletion requests