What this site knows about you.

The contact form

If you write to me through the form, I receive what you typed: your name, your email address and your message. The form hands them to Resend, the service that delivers the email, and the message lands in my mailbox, which runs on Google Workspace. From there it is ordinary correspondence — I keep it for as long as it is useful for replying or working together, and I delete it when you ask.

Nothing from the form is written to a database, used for marketing, or shared with anyone beyond those two services doing the delivering.

Rate limiting

When the form is submitted, the server glances at your IP address so it can slow down anyone hammering the endpoint. The glance lives in memory for about a minute and is never written down.

Hosting

The site is served by Vercel. Like any host, Vercel keeps standard server logs — which address was requested, when, and from which IP — for a short period, for security and debugging. I do not use them to identify visitors.

What stays in your browser

One value in sessionStorage, so the loading sequence plays once per visit instead of on every page. It never leaves your browser, identifies nobody, and disappears when the tab closes.

That is the whole list. No cookies. The typefaces are self-hosted, so not even a font request leaves this domain.

Your rights

The personal data I hold about you is whatever you have sent me. You can ask what that is, ask me to correct it, or ask me to delete it: hello@drowningdot.com.

The studio is based in Japan and handles personal information under Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information. If you are writing from somewhere with its own rules — the GDPR, say — I will honour the equivalent request.

Changes

If any of this changes, this page changes with it, with a new date at the top.