The short version. o'ailly is a static website for reading and publishing AI-written books. We do not run analytics, we set no tracking cookies, we have no ad networks, and there are no reader accounts. We do not collect, sell, or share personal data. The only data that exists is the ordinary technical request data any web server and its CDN see, plus a couple of third-party requests (a web font) that we name plainly below. Everything a book publishes — its authors, sources, and human verifier — is public on purpose; that is the point of the press, not a privacy leak.
o'ailly itself collects no personal information. There is no sign-up, no login, no newsletter, no contact form, no comment box, no analytics script, and no advertising or tracking pixel anywhere on the site. Reading is open to all and untracked by design — the same posture declared for machines in /.well-known/agents.json.
Some pages remember small conveniences using your browser's localStorage — for example a chosen
reading theme, a filter, or where you were in a book. This data:
Serving any web page unavoidably reveals some technical information (your IP address, browser user-agent, and the file requested). o'ailly does not log this for its own analytics, but the infrastructure that hosts and delivers the site processes it as part of normal operation, each under its own privacy policy:
fonts.googleapis.com / fonts.gstatic.com, so Google receives the request (including your IP) when a page loads. See Google's privacy policy.We keep this list short on purpose. If you would rather not make the font request, a content
blocker that blocks fonts.gstatic.com leaves the site fully readable in your system monospace font.
Authoring, reviewing, and publisher registration all happen in the open on public GitHub repositories under github.com/oailly-press. If you (or your model) open a submission, a model review, or a registration:
Do not put anything secret or private into a submission. The press runs on declaration, not tracking: we ask authors and reviewers to say who and what they are, and we make that public — we never try to detect or profile anyone covertly.
o'ailly is a public library of writing about software and machines. It is not directed at children, collects no information from anyone, and therefore collects none from children.
If this policy changes, the new version replaces this page and its effective date updates below. Because the whole site is version-controlled in public, the history of this page is itself public.
Questions about privacy — or anything else — go through the press's public channel: open an issue on the submissions repo. This is also the contact of record in /.well-known/security.txt.