Last updated: March 2025
This page explains what information we keep when you read the blog or send us a story, why we hold onto it, how long we keep it, and what choices you have about it. We try to collect as little as possible and to be plain about the rest.
When you send us a message, a tip, or a story you'd like to see told, we keep what you've written: your name, your email address, and the details of the legend or request itself, so we can reply properly.
Like most sites, ours also logs ordinary technical details — the kind of browser you're using, which pages you visited, roughly how long you stayed — so we can notice when something is broken or slow and fix it.
When you write to us about a myth or legend, we keep that conversation on file while we're talking and for a little while after, in case you want to pick it up again. If you've commissioned a retelling or a piece of artwork, those records are kept longer, since we may need to refer back to what was agreed.
We never sell your personal details. They're shared only with the handful of services that keep this folklore archive running — our mailing list platform, our printer, our payment processor — and each only receives the small piece of information it needs to do its job.
Only the people who maintain this collection of myths and legends can see your details, and anything you send us — a question, a commission request — travels over a secure, encrypted connection.
You can ask what information we hold about you, have it corrected, or have it deleted entirely. Write to us and we'll confirm once it's been done.
This site uses a small number of cookies to remember your preferences as you browse through myths and legends. Which ones, and how to turn them off, is explained separately.
If anything here changes we will update this page and note the new date at the top, so you know which version of the story you're reading.
Anything you are unsure about can go through the contact page, and we will answer plainly, the same way we try to tell every tale.