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On the Nature of Things (1743)
On the Nature of Things (1743)

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Privacy Policy

What Data Do We Collect?

  • Server logs: IP address, browser details, requested pages, timestamps, and technical error logs may be processed by the server or hosting provider for security and operation.
  • Account data: If you register, we store your email address, username, password hash, account status, date joined, and last login.
  • User activity: If you use site features, we store comments, favorites, and account-related settings. Anonymous likes are stored in a session cookie.
  • E-mail: If you email us, or if the site sends account emails, your address and message content may be stored for correspondence and account administration.
  • Abuse prevention: Forms use rate limiting and verification. This may process your IP address, session data, and challenge response.
  • YouTube embeds: Embedded YouTube videos use the youtube-nocookie.com domain, but YouTube may still receive your IP address, device details, and playback information. See Google Privacy Policy.
  • Local resources: Fonts, MathJax, KaTeX, scripts, and styles are hosted locally, so they are not loaded from external CDNs.

How Do We Use Your Data?

We use your data only to run the website, provide account features, show comments, save favorites and likes, send account emails, answer messages, prevent spam and abuse, keep the site secure, and comply with legal obligations.

Who Processes Your Data?

  • Hosting provider: The website is hosted on Hetzner. Hetzner may process server logs and technical data. See Hetzner Privacy Policy.
  • Email provider: Account emails are sent via Cloudflare Email Service; direct correspondence may also be handled through Gmail.
  • YouTube/Google: YouTube embeds are provided by Google as described above.

Cookies

This website uses essential cookies only:

  • A session cookie to keep you logged in and remember anonymous likes.
  • A CSRF cookie to protect forms from cross-site request forgery.

These cookies are needed for the site to work. The website does not use advertising, analytics, or tracking cookies.

Your Rights

You can view, change, export, or delete your account data in profile settings. If you delete your account, your account is removed; existing comments may remain visible with the saved display name so that discussion threads still make sense.

You may also contact us to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, or portability of your personal data, or to object to processing where applicable.

Data Retention

Account data is kept while your account exists. Comments remain until removed by you or moderation. Emails are kept as long as needed to handle the conversation or account issue. Server logs and rate-limit records are kept only as long as needed for security, debugging, and abuse prevention.

This website may contain links to external sites. Please note that this privacy policy applies only to this website, and if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is kept under regular review and any updates will be posted on this page. This privacy policy was last updated on 2026-05-11.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please feel free to contact us at:

Terms and Conditions

By using this website, you agree to these terms.

The content on this website is provided for educational and informational purposes only. I try to keep it accurate and useful, but I do not guarantee that all content is complete, current, error-free, or suitable for your particular purpose. Use it at your own risk.

You may use the website only in a lawful and respectful way. Do not attempt to break the site, bypass security or rate limits, scrape excessively, spam forms or comments, impersonate others, upload or post unlawful content, or interfere with other users.

If you create an account, you are responsible for keeping your login details secure. You may delete your account in profile settings. We can remove comments, restrict commenting, suspend accounts, or delete accounts when needed to prevent abuse, spam, security problems, or legal risk.

Comments and other user-submitted content remain your responsibility. By posting content, you allow this website to store, display, moderate, and, where needed, send it to moderation tools. Do not post content that you do not have the right to share.

Links to external websites are provided for convenience and information only. I do not control or endorse external websites and am not responsible for their content, policies, or availability.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, I am not liable for losses or damages arising from use of this website, unavailable features, errors, external links, or reliance on the content.

I may update these terms from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page. Continued use of the website means you accept the updated terms.

License

  • © 2026 Sviatoslav Sokolov / sortofschool. All rights reserved.
  • If you want to use any content (code, images, videos, texts, etc.) for commercial purposes, please contact me at [email protected]