For parents, teachers, lawyers, and the extra-curious
Privacy & Promises
This page tells you exactly what happens, and what doesn't happen, when you visit Aura Looks Up. It is written for two readers: a parent or teacher who wants a clear answer in thirty seconds, and a lawyer, regulator, or expert who wants the complete picture. Both audiences should leave reassured.
The short version
You do not have to give us anything to read this site. When you simply browse, we collect nothing about you. Not what you read. Not where you came from. Not how long you stay. We do not place cookies. We do not run analytics. We do not profile you.
The only way any information ever passes from you to us is if you choose to use the contact form. If you do, you tell us four things on purpose: your name, your city, your country, and a message. We never ask for your email address. That is the complete scope of what we could ever know about you, and you decide whether to share any of it.
What happens when you visit
When you load any page on Aura Looks Up, you see pictures, words, and animations. Nothing runs in the background that gathers information about you, your device, or your behavior. Specifically:
- We do not place cookies on your device.
- We do not ask you to log in, sign up, or create an account. There is no account system.
- We do not run analytics that count, profile, or follow visitors.
- We do not show advertising of any kind.
- We do not embed buttons, widgets, or pixels that report back to social-media companies.
- We do not sell, rent, license, or share information for advertising or marketing.
- We do not maintain a mailing list. We will never send you a newsletter, because we cannot.
The home page, the chapter pages, and every page on this site other than the contact form load zero third-party services. The one exception, fully disclosed below, is the contact form itself.
Children
Aura Looks Up is built to be a safe, welcoming place for children. It is designed to comply with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the U.K. Age-Appropriate Design Code, and the European General Data Protection Regulation as applied to children (GDPR-K). Because we collect no information from any visitor, regardless of age, there is nothing that needs to be handled differently for younger visitors. There are no chat rooms, no message boards, no requests for any personal detail, and no advertising.
The contact form
There is one optional, deliberate way you can share information with us: the contact form. If you choose to use it, you tell us four things: your name, your city, your country, and a message.
We have deliberately chosen not to ask for your email address or any other identifier. If you would prefer to remain anonymous, you may use a nickname; we will not verify it.
When you press Send, your message is delivered privately and directly to Robin (the writer and owner of this project) through a private notebook only he can open. We do not add you to any list (we have no lists). We do not share your message with anyone. Once we have replied, or once the message is no longer relevant, we delete it.
The two services that touch the contact form, and only the contact form
In order for a message you write on the contact form to actually reach Robin (rather than vanish into your browser), two well-known services are involved. They are loaded only on the contact page and only when you submit the form. Neither runs on the home page, the chapter pages, the privacy page, or anywhere else.
- Google. Your submission is delivered to a private notebook (a Google Sheet) inside Robin's personal Google account. Only he can open it. Google's role is to store the rows of that notebook; Google does not read, market on, or otherwise use the contents. Google's own privacy practices are governed by their public policies.
- Cloudflare Turnstile. A privacy-respecting human check that loads on the contact page so that bots cannot flood the form. Turnstile does not place cookies on your device, does not track you across other sites, and does not profile you. It checks, only in the moment, that you are not an automated script.
Aside from these two, no other third party is involved in any way, on any page, ever. Choosing not to use the contact form means none of them run for you at all.
Information that exists outside our hands
A factual reality of how the internet works is that any time you visit any website, the infrastructure that delivers that website briefly knows you asked for it. This is true of every site you have ever visited. We do not store, analyze, or retain any such information ourselves. If any incidental record exists, it lives with the providers that operate the underlying plumbing of the web, governed by their own published policies and by the laws applicable to them. We have no commercial or technical relationship with any analytics, tracking, profiling, or advertising company, and none of them receive anything from this site about you.
Your rights
You have rights under privacy laws around the world, including the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act and California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA / CPRA), the Brazilian Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD), and similar regulations elsewhere. These rights generally include:
- The right to know what personal information is held about you.
- The right to have it corrected.
- The right to have it deleted.
- The right to receive a portable copy of it.
- The right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of the above.
Unless you have voluntarily sent us a message through the contact form, we hold no personal information about you, and there is nothing to access, correct, delete, or transfer. If you have sent us a message and you would like it returned to you, corrected, or deleted, ask through the contact form (or to hello@auralooksup.com) and we will respond within a reasonable time and without charge. If you would like written confirmation that we hold nothing about you, we are happy to provide it.
"Do Not Track" and other browser signals
Some browsers send a "Do Not Track" request or a Global Privacy Control signal. We do not respond to these signals because we do not track in the first place. There is nothing to switch off.
Security
The site is served over HTTPS so that what you see, and what you type into the contact form, cannot be observed in transit by anyone on your network.
If you have not used the contact form, we hold no data of yours and there is nothing that could be lost, leaked, or stolen. If you have sent us a message, it lives in a private notebook in Robin's personal Google account, accessible only by him and protected by Google's account security. We delete messages once they are no longer needed.
Changes to this page
If we ever change anything that affects your privacy (for instance, if we one day add a comments section, or accept newsletter signups, neither of which we have any plans to do), we will update the date at the top of this page and explain in plain language what changed. Any material change will be announced clearly at the top, and will not be applied retroactively to messages or visits that took place before the change.
Contact
For privacy questions specifically, or for any reason to reach us at all, please use the contact form.
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