Privacy notice
Written to meet South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
What we collect when you sign up
- The address you type into the form
- Timestamp
- The date and time you signed up
- Consent text
- The wording you agreed to: "Send me new essays from Café Siller. Unsubscribe any time."
- Hashed IP
- A one-way scrambled version of your IP address, used only to spot abuse. We cannot turn it back into your address.
Why we collect it
To send you new essays from Café Siller, and for nothing else. We do not sell or share the list. It is stored in a file on our web server that cannot be opened from the web.
Unsubscribing and deletion
Reply to any email we send you and ask to be removed, and we will delete your details. You may also ask what we hold about you or ask us to correct it. If you are unhappy with how we handle your information, you can complain to the Information Regulator at inforegulator.org.za.
Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which essays are read, and Microsoft Clarity to understand how people move around pages, including anonymised session recordings and heatmaps. Both set cookies or similar identifiers in your browser. You can block them with your browser settings or an extension and the site will still work.