Privacy

Version — September 29, 2026. Superseded by any version bearing a later date.

This is what Page Turn keeps about you, why, where it lives, who else touches it, and how to get rid of it. It is short because we keep little. There are no advertising trackers and no analytics on the site, the editor sends usage analytics only if you say yes, nothing is sold, and no password is ever stored because there isn't one.

Page Turn is operated by Siphon Music and Games, LLC, a New York limited liability company, at 263 S 4th St #110161, Brooklyn, NY 11211, United States. Questions about anything on this page: atlas@pageturn.game. Using Page Turn also means accepting our Terms of Service.

What we keep, and why

If you make an account. Signing in is by a link we email you, so we hold your email address and nothing like a password. We ask your date of birth once, because the law makes us: under 13 you cannot have an account at all, from 13 to 17 you can read but not publish, and publishing needs you to be 18 or over. You can add a display name, one or more pen names if you publish, and a recovery email if you want a second way back in. If you accept the publisher terms, we record which version you accepted and when.

When you read. Your saves — where you are in a story, the choices you made, and the record of pages you have read that the album is rebuilt from — live on your device. If you are signed in they are also copied to your account so you can pick up on another device. Your account also carries a wallet, a subscription and a list of what you may open. Today nothing is for sale and nothing is charged; those are granted by us, not bought.

If you publish. The stories you publish, under your pen name, are public by design. We also keep a random identifier for the copy of the editor you publish from and the link between that identifier and your account, so a story can only be republished or taken down by the person who put it up.

Feedback from the editor. When you press the feedback button in the editor we receive what you wrote, the editor's version, your operating system, the random identifier of that copy of the editor, which is linked to your account if you publish from it, the structure of the story you had open without its words or pictures, and a diagnostic log. If you said yes to usage analytics (below), the editor also sends a report of the same shape on its own when something goes wrong, such as an error or clicks that do nothing. These exist so we can fix what broke. When you write a report yourself, the editor asks whether to include a copy of your project — its words and structure, never its pictures or sounds, and whether to include screenshots of what the editor showed in the couple of minutes before, which show your story as you saw it. Neither travels unless you choose it that time, and the project copy is deleted once what you reported is fixed.

Usage analytics in the editor, only if you say yes. The editor asks once whether to send usage analytics. If you say yes, it records which features you use, such as turning to a page, placing a piece or running the spellchecker, with the editor's version, your operating system and screen size, and a random identifier for that copy of the editor. It never sends anything you wrote, your pictures or sounds, or the names you gave things. No IP address or location is kept with it. It goes to PostHog, in the United States. You can change your answer at any time from the editor's Escape menu, under Analytics, and saying no changes nothing about how the editor works.

Reports of stories. If you report a story from the shelf, we keep the report, the story's address, your account if you were signed in, and your email address if you gave one for a reply.

Feedback from the site. If you send feedback from the button in the corner of the site, we keep what you wrote and the address of the page you sent it from. Your account doesn't go with it, even when you are signed in, and neither does anything else that says who you are.

The email list on the front door. The sign-up form there sends your name, email and language to a Google Form we run. It is separate from your account.

Technical traces. The companies that host us keep the ordinary request logs of any website, including your IP address, for a limited period they set. The site uses Google's reCAPTCHA v3 to tell browsers from bots; Google's own privacy policy applies to it. The site has no advertising trackers and no analytics.

Where it lives, and who else handles it

• Google — the site, the database, story files, sign-in, and the money service run on Google Cloud in the United States.
• Amazon — sends the sign-in emails, and delivers pictures and sound through its content network, which sees your IP address when it does.
• Namecheap — hosts our mailboxes, so anything you email us sits there.
• PostHog — receives the editor's usage analytics if you said yes, in the United States.
• Anthropic — its AI, Claude, reads reports, feedback, logs, project copies and screenshots to help us find and fix what you reported, in the United States.
• Discord — our community server is on Discord and under Discord's own policies; nothing from your Page Turn account goes there.

We do not sell or share personal information, as California law defines those words, and we do not give it to anyone for their own use. (If you want to send a request about the sale of your information anyway, as Nevada law allows, write to the address at the top.) We hand it over only to the companies above to run the service, or when the law requires it of us. A creator never learns who read their story. What is public is what you chose to make public: your pen name and your published stories.

On your device

Your browser holds your sign-in session, your saves, the email address you last signed in with, a few settings, and a cache of the app so it opens quickly. None of these are third-party cookies. Clearing your browser's site data removes all of them; your account copy of your saves survives that. Page Turn doesn't follow you across other websites, so a browser's Do Not Track signal has nothing to switch off; every visit is treated the same with it on or off.

How long we keep it

• Your account, saves and wallet — until you close your account.
• Stories you publish — until you or we take them down. The copies we keep in case of a mistake, older versions of a story's files and our backup of them, are gone within a month of being replaced or taken down.
• Reports and feedback — two years. Diagnostic logs, project copies and screenshots sent with them go within a year, and project copies sooner, once what you reported is fixed.
• The editor's usage analytics — a year, at PostHog.
• The email list — until you ask to be taken off it.
• The record that you accepted the publisher terms, and of any of your stories we took down — as long as the law may need them.
• Database backups — two weeks.

Children

Nobody under 13 may have an account, and the sign-up refuses a date of birth that says otherwise. Accounts from 13 to 17 are marked as under 18 and can read but not publish. What we hold about an account under 18 is used only to run it — signing in, saves and reading — and none of it goes to analytics or marketing.

Your choices

From your account page you can change your email, your display name and your recovery email, and close your account. Your date of birth can't be changed once given; if it's wrong, write to the address at the top. Closing it erases your personal information. Three things are kept: the record that you accepted the publisher terms, with your email removed from it; the record of any of your stories we took down, which the rules on repeat copyright infringement need; and any stories still published — so unpublish those first, or closing is refused. If you want a copy of what we hold, or want something corrected or deleted that the account page does not cover, write to the address at the top and we will do it.

If you are in the UK or the EU

We use your information because we need it to give you what you asked for (your account, your saves, the stories you publish), because you agreed (the editor's analytics, the email list), or because the law requires it (the age check, and the records of the publisher terms and of takedowns). You can ask for a copy of it, have it corrected or deleted, object to how we use it, or have it handed to you to take elsewhere: write to the address at the top. You can also complain to your data protection authority. Your information is stored in the United States.

Keeping it safe

Everything travels encrypted. Access to the stored data is limited to the people who run Page Turn. There is no password to leak. We keep daily backups of the database for two weeks, so a mistake on our side can be undone.

Changes

A new version of this page carries a new date at the top and replaces this one. If a change would let us do something with your information that this page does not describe, we will tell account holders by email first.