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Privacy Policy

Updated: 2026-10-28

The short version: this site reads as much of you as a website can read, which is not much, and it keeps almost none of it.

What We Collect

  • Server logs. Like any website, our server records standard access data (IP address, browser user agent, pages requested, timestamps). These logs are used for operational purposes: keeping the site running, blocking spam, and counting how many people show up for the drama.
  • Comments. If you leave a comment, we store your display name, your comment, and — if you provide it — your email address. We never display your email address. We keep it so that spam from your own IP can be rate-limited and so the comment can be tied to the person who wrote it if moderation is ever needed.
  • Nothing else. No accounts. No profiles. We do not sell, rent, or trade anything about you. The business model is having opinions, with a little help from the ad network, which has its own collection habits (see Third-Party Advertising below).

What We Do Not Do

  • We do not set cross-site tracking cookies ourselves. The third-party services below (ads, analytics) manage their own cookies and identifiers on their own terms. See Third-Party Advertising and Analytics below.
  • We do not sell personal data to third parties. There is no inventory to sell.
  • We do not send marketing emails. We do not have your email unless you typed it into a comment form or the contact form, and even then, it is for moderation or replying to you, not a newsletter. There is no newsletter. The posts are the newsletter.

Contact Form

If you use the contact page, we store the name, email address and message you send. The message is delivered to our editor’s mailbox on our server and read by a human. We do not use it for marketing and we do not share it with anyone. If you would like a message deleted, contact us from the email address you used and we will remove it.

Cookies

The site sets a session cookie used for the comment form (spam protection and duplicate-comment prevention) and, for staff, the admin login. Close the browser and the session cookie goes with it. The ad network sets its own cookies too; those are not ours to manage.

Third-Party Advertising

This site displays advertisements served by a third-party ad network (currently Adsterra). The ad system sets its own cookies and similar identifiers, and the network may use them to recognize your browser across sites and decide what to show you. We do not give the network your comment name or email address, and we have no say in what it collects on its side of the handshake. Their rules: the Adsterra privacy policy and cookie policy. If you want out of interest-based ads across the industry, the standard opt-out is aboutads.info. An ad blocker works as well, and the drama continues fine without the ads.

Analytics

The site also uses a third-party web analytics service (StatCounter, statcounter.com) for supplemental traffic statistics. A page view is reported to their servers with basic technical details (page visited, referrer, browser, operating system, IP address). We do not give them anything from this site — no comment names, no emails, no post content. Their rules: the StatCounter privacy policy. An ad blocker or script blocker stops the counter, and the drama continues fine without it.

Third-Party Content

Posts may link to or embed third-party content (videos, images, other sites). Once you leave this site, the privacy practices of wherever you land are governed by that site, not by us. We judge celebrity PR for a living; we cannot contractually police the internet.

Your Rights

If you left a comment and want it removed, contact us (see the Terms page for the address) and it will be deleted. If you want to know what we have on file, ask, and we will tell you. The answer will be shorter than you expect.

Changes to This Policy

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it. We will not email you about it, because we do not have your email.