Privacy
Statement.

1. What the Department collects.

The optional Join the Department form asks for your email address and your consent to receive correspondence. We send a confirmation link first; your address is added to the mailing list only after you confirm it. No name or purchase is required.

Our hosting and email providers also process technical information needed to serve pages, deliver messages and prevent abuse. The application does not include your email address in analytics events or application log messages.

2. Why the Department collects it.

To send the correspondence you request: Pemberton’s bulletins, new case files, and news of future books from the Department of Surrender. Joining is optional. The free reading-room passages remain available without subscribing.

3. What the Department will not do.

• The Department will not sell your email to anyone, ever, under any circumstances, for any sum, even a generous one.
• The Department will not share your email with affiliates, partners, sponsors, or other agencies, real or imagined.
• The Department will not enroll you in additional lists, programs, or initiatives without an explicit second act of consent from you.
• The Department will not use your email to train a model. It is too small a dataset, and the model would only learn to feel mildly bureaucratic.

4. Where your data lives.

The Department uses Resend to deliver confirmation emails and manage its mailing list. Confirmation links expire within 24 hours. Unconfirmed addresses are not added to the marketing list, although the email provider processes the confirmation message and its delivery records. See Resend’s privacy policy for its handling of data.

5. Withdrawing.

Department marketing emails include an unsubscribe link. You may also contact postmaster@departmentofsurrender.com to request removal or deletion. Rejoining requires a new confirmation from your mailbox.

For more information, see the Withdrawal Policy.

6. Your rights, briefly.

Where the laws of your jurisdiction grant you rights of access, rectification, deletion, portability, or restriction over the personal data the Department holds about you, the Department honors those rights. Send a request to postmaster@departmentofsurrender.com from the email address in question and the Department will respond within thirty (30) calendar days, often sooner, occasionally with charm.

7. Visitor analytics.

This site includes Vercel Web Analytics. When enabled, it records aggregate visits, pages viewed, referring websites, approximate location, and browser and device information. Vercel Web Analytics does not use tracking cookies. The Department removes query strings and URL fragments from reported page addresses.

Where custom events are enabled, we count opened samples, confirmed subscriptions, checkout starts and completed purchases. Event properties are limited to the passage, where it was opened, purchase amount and currency, quantity, and whether checkout is in test or live mode. Email addresses, confirmation tokens, order numbers, payment credentials and book download links are not sent in these events. No analytics is loaded on the email confirmation page until you successfully confirm; the confirmation token has already been removed from the address bar at that point. Custom events respect browser Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals.

For details of how the service handles visitor data, see Vercel's analytics privacy documentation. PayPal handles information used for checkout under its own privacy policy.

8. Changes to this statement.

If the Department updates this statement in any material way, the new version will be re-issued to all enlisted citizens via the Bulletin, with the change clearly marked. The Department does not make material changes quietly.

9. Contact.

The Department's designated point of contact for matters of data and privacy is postmaster@departmentofsurrender.com. The Department reads its mail. The Department occasionally writes back.