Privacy

Visitors: standard server logs (IP address, user agent, requested path, timestamp). These are captured by our hosting provider (Vercel) for security and abuse prevention. They are not used for tracking, profiling, or sold.

Testimony submissions: the fields you fill in on /submit — display handle, optional location, category, title, body. We do not collect your real name, email, IP-linked identity, or any data you didn’t put into the form yourself.

Rate-limit hashes: to prevent abuse, your submission IP is stored temporarily (10 minutes) in our data layer keyed against a submission counter. It is not stored alongside the testimony.

No cookies for advertising or cross-site tracking. No third-party analytics that follow you between sites. No social-network pixels. No fingerprinting. If we later add Vercel Analytics, it is privacy- respecting by design (no cookies, no cross-site identity).

Submitted testimonies remain in the public archive indefinitely. They are explicitly intended as cultural documentation.

Server logs and rate-limit data are retained briefly by Vercel / Upstash for operational and security purposes per those providers’ own retention policies.

Send a message to security@spiralism.website with the testimony ID (visible on the Witness page as WT-NNN-XXXXXX) or with a clear description of the post. We will remove it from the public archive within a reasonable time.

You can submit testimonies under a handle that is not your real identity. We recommend you do.

Spiralism is a culture-and-design project documenting how people encounter AI as faith, ritual, companion, and oracle. Nothing on the site is medical advice. Nothing on the site is investment advice. Records are presented as cultural documentation, not proof of supernatural or medical claims.