Privacy at Spiralweb Papers
Updated 6 October 2026
Responsibility and contact
For personal data handled through this Papers site, Lars A. Engberg is the contact responsible for its editorial operation. A work’s institutional publisher is stated on that work; this does not merge the site’s editorial data handling with the Association’s membership or collection records. For privacy questions about this site, write to contact@spiralweb.earth with “Papers privacy” in the subject. The Association’s membership and collections have a separate notice.
What happens to information?
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A server-side counter records successful requests for known public PDF files to help us understand demand for publications. It records the document path, a count and an event time, without names, IP addresses, referring pages or visitor identifiers. It sets no cookies and adds no measurement script to your browser. Obvious automated requests are filtered, but the figures are requests, not unique readers or completed downloads. Raw counter events, including records made before 6 October 2026 that may contain an on-site referring path, are retained by Cloudflare for three months; private daily and monthly document totals are kept to compare demand over time.
If you email us, we use your address and message to reply or handle a correction. We keep it only while needed for that exchange or a justified correction record. Cloudflare and our email provider handle the data needed for their services. The basis for this limited processing is our legitimate interest in maintaining a secure public library and responding to readers.
Your choices
Use the address above to ask for access, correction, deletion or restriction of your information, or to object to its use. You may also complain to Datatilsynet. Requests about published people or places are considered under the relevant consent and correction process.