Privacy
What this site keeps, and what it doesn’t
Last updated 16 October 2026
This is Scarlett Vale’s website. It has no ads, no tracking cookies and no scripts from other companies. Here is everything it does with information about you.
If you join The Velvet Letter
When you sign up, the site stores your email address, the exact words of the consent box you ticked, the time you ticked it, the part of the site you signed up from, and the country your connection came from. Your country comes from the network, not your device, and it is never more precise than a country.
That information is used for one thing: sending you The Velvet Letter. It is stored in a database on Cloudflare, which hosts this site. If an email service is used to send the letters, your address is shared with that service only so it can deliver them.
It is kept until you unsubscribe or ask for it to be deleted. Every letter has an unsubscribe link, or you can write to hello@iamscarlettvale.com to see, correct or delete what is held about you.
When you click a book
Book links pass through this site on their way to Amazon so they can open your own country’s store. Each click adds one to a running count for that book, that day and that country. Nothing else is recorded: no address, no identifier, no cookie. What happens on Amazon is covered by Amazon’s own privacy notice.
The age question
Your answer to “Are you 18 or older?” is saved in your browser’s local storage so you aren’t asked every visit. It never leaves your device. Clearing your browser data removes it.
Everything else
Cloudflare processes the technical details every website receives, such as your IP address, to deliver pages and keep out abuse. Attempts to sign up are rate limited using a scrambled, irreversible hash of your IP address that is discarded within a day.
Questions about any of this go to hello@iamscarlettvale.com.
