Privacy

Reading the site

Terralore has no accounts, no logins, and sets no cookies of its own. One third-party tool runs: Google Analytics, which tells us which pages are read. It loads only after you interact with a page (or seven seconds pass), and its data reaches us as aggregate page counts, not profiles we build.

The Ledger letter

Subscribing to the Ledger by letter stores exactly this: your email address, the subscription’s double-opt-in state, and its timestamps. That record lives in a mailing-list system Terralore hosts on its own server — no newsletter service, no data processor holding the list, no one to sell it to. Delivery itself transits our mail provider (Zoho Mail), the same way any email does.

• Double opt-in — nothing is sent until you confirm from your own inbox; an unconfirmed address is never mailed again.
• No tracking — letters carry no tracking pixels and links are direct URLs, not rewritten through a click counter. We know what we sent, not what you read.
• One subject — the address is used for the Ledger letter and nothing else: one letter per recorded refresh, no other mail.
• Leaving — every letter carries a one-click unsubscribe, which removes your address from the list immediately. The same page offers full erasure of the record; or write to ledger@terralore.co and we erase it by hand.

Our videos and the YouTube API

Terralore publishes its own short videos to its own YouTube channel, @terraloreco, through a scheduling tool we host on our own server. That tool uses YouTube API Services, and only to upload our videos and to identify our channel. By watching our videos on YouTube you are also bound by the YouTube Terms of Service, and Google handles your data under the Google Privacy Policy.

• What is accessed — the authorisation of our own channel, to upload to it, and that channel’s name and id. No viewer’s data is ever requested.
• What is stored — the channel’s access token and the id of each video we upload, on our own server. Nothing is sold, shared, or used for anything but publishing our videos.
• Revoking — the tool has no users besides Terralore. Any Google account can revoke an app’s access at any time from Google’s security settings; a revoked token stops working at once, and we delete it from our server on request: ledger@terralore.co.