Privacy

Ask Claudius (chat)

You don’t need an account to use the chat, and there is no way to save a conversation. We don’t keep a record of your questions as a matter of course.

Each message you send goes to Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI model, so it can write an answer. Anthropic also runs a safety check on your question before it is answered, and another on the answer afterward. Anthropic handles that text under its own terms.

Two cases are saved to our database for manual review: a question the safety check blocks, and an answer the review flags as possibly inaccurate. In either case we store the question, the answer if there was one, and a one-way hash of your IP address. We do not store the IP address itself in our database.

To limit abuse, the chat counts how many requests come from each IP address. That counter sits in a rate-limiting service (Upstash) and uses your IP address as its key, so the address is held there temporarily.

Email signup

If you join the list for our free Friday email, we store your email address, the page you signed up from, when you confirmed, and a one-way hash of your IP address. You confirm by clicking a link we email you. Every email includes a link to unsubscribe.

We send email through Resend. We don’t sell your address or give it to advertisers.

Contribution and contact forms

When you send a correction, event, or tip, we store what you type, including your name and email if you give them, plus a one-way hash of your IP address. A person reads every submission before anything is published.

Advertiser accounts

Businesses that buy a placement sign in with a link sent to their email, so we store that email address and their order details. Payment is handled by Stripe; we never see full card numbers. Signing in sets a session cookie, described below.

Analytics

We measure traffic with Plausible Analytics. Plausible counts page views without cookies and without building a profile of individual visitors. It is the only analytics tool on the site.

Cookies

The public pages don’t set cookies. The one cookie we set is a sign-in cookie for advertiser and staff accounts, which lasts up to 30 days and is only used to keep you signed in.

Maps and video

Some pages load content from other companies. The maps use Mapbox, and the park campaign page plays a YouTube video in its privacy-enhanced mode. Some business and news images load from the sites that host them. Those companies can see your IP address and browser details when the content loads, and their own privacy policies apply.

Advertising

The site doesn’t use ad networks such as Google AdSense. Sponsored placements are sold directly to local businesses and labeled as sponsored. We don’t pass visitor data to advertisers. There are no ads inside the chat.

Deleting your information

Email hello@claudiuscrozet.com and tell us which address or submission to remove. You can also unsubscribe from the email list yourself with the link in any email.

Questions

Write to hello@claudiuscrozet.com.

Frequently asked questions