Effective August 22, 2026. What this site collects, why, and what is done with it — written to be read, not survived.
Who runs this site
Anthonyadore.com is a personal author website operated by Anthony Adoré, publishing original essays and books. There is no company behind it and no staff. Questions about this policy, or requests concerning your information, reach the site owner directly through the contact form, and are answered personally.
What this site collects from visitors
You can read everything here without giving any personal information. Information is collected only in these three cases.
Cookies and consent
Cookies strictly necessary to operate the site are always set. This site also uses Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager, to measure aggregate readership — which essays are read, and roughly where readers come from. Analytics sets its own cookies (names beginning with _ga) so that two visits can be recognized as one reader. With Google signals enabled, Google also supplies aggregated demographics and interests estimates for reporting; only aggregate numbers reach me, and no individual reader is identified. The measurement is aggregate and is not used to build advertising profiles.
Embedded media from services such as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X and Flickr load directly from those services, which may set their own cookies when you open a page containing an embed.
If you prefer not to be measured, you can block analytics with your browser’s tracking protections or with Google’s opt-out browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout — declining costs you no access to any essay.
Publishing to social platforms
Essays published here are also posted to the author’s own accounts on Instagram, Facebook, X, Flickr and TikTok, by software running on this website called the AA Social publishing integration. Because this is the part of the site that touches third-party platforms, it is described here in full.
What is published: only original work owned by the site owner — the artwork created for an essay, a caption written for that platform, a short set of topical hashtags, descriptive alternative text for accessibility, and a link back to the essay. Nothing is republished from other people’s accounts, and no third party’s content is posted.
Exactly three things are obtained from those platforms:
How credentials are handled: access tokens are stored in this website’s own database, on this site’s hosting, and are used solely to publish to the connected account. They are never transmitted to any third party, never sold, never shared, and are not used for analytics, profiling or advertising. Administrative screens mask them. Access can be revoked at any time from the platform’s own settings, or by disconnecting the account here, after which the software can no longer publish and the stored credential is removed.
Automated publishing and its limits: publishing runs on a fixed schedule of a small number of posts per platform per day, drawn only from content already published on this site. Every attempt is recorded so the same item is never posted twice, and there is no bulk or mass posting. Where a platform requires posts made through its API to remain private until its review process is complete, that restriction is respected.
Compliance: this integration is operated in accordance with the developer terms and platform policies of each service used, including the TikTok Developer Terms of Service and TikTok’s content-sharing guidelines, and the corresponding terms of Meta for Instagram and Facebook, X, and Flickr.
The rest, in brief
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