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Internal Security Directorate

Privacy

This page is deliberately written outside the fiction. Nothing here is redacted, styled or in character.

The Directorate styling never applies to legal information. Account data is limited to an email address, a display name, a permanent Observer ID, a chosen supplied avatar, consent records, access state and feedback. Date of birth, address, phone number and location are never collected. Redaction is used as story content only and never obscures legal, navigation, privacy or accessibility information.

What is stored

Observer accounts and programme records are stored through Supabase so that the service can authenticate you, maintain your access and preserve feedback you choose to submit.

  • Your email address, used for passwordless sign-in and essential account or programme messages.
  • Your display name, permanent Observer ID and supplied avatar choice.
  • Your account terms and optional bulletin-consent records.
  • Beta-reader applications, released-material access and issuance records, and feedback you submit.

Transactional emails are delivered through Brevo. Optional Directorate bulletins are sent only when you have chosen to receive them; you can change that choice from your account page.

What is never collected

  • Date of birth, home address, phone number or location.
  • Tracking of your reading behaviour outside the account features described here.

Removal

You can permanently delete your Observer record yourself from the Account and Privacy page. Deletion removes the account and its associated consent records, applications, access history, issued files and feedback. It cannot be undone; you would need to create a new record if you later wanted to participate again.