Seven Ages is a record of what you’ve read and seen. Keeping that record is the only reason we hold anything about you at all, and the short version of this page is: we collect your email address and the things you log, we don’t sell any of it, and you can delete the lot yourself without asking us.
What we collect
Your email address. Signing in works by sending a six-digit code to your email, so we need the address to send it to. It’s stored with your account and it’s the only thing here that identifies you as a person.
What you log. The plays you’ve read and when, the editions you read them in, performances you’ve seen and the companies and houses you saw them at, screen adaptations you’ve watched, and any notes you write on those entries. Plus your preferences: display name, home location if you give one, how far you’d travel, and which cities or companies you follow.
Analytics. Which pages get visited and roughly how people move through the site. We use PostHog for this, and Vercel Web Analytics alongside it. While you’re signed in, analytics events are tagged with your account id so we can tell — for example — whether people who log a first play come back to log a second.
We don’t collect anything else. No advertising trackers, no data brokers, no third-party profiles bought in to fill out what we know about you.
Cookies, and why there’s no banner
You haven’t been asked to accept cookies because there is nothing to accept. Analytics here is configured to store nothing at all on your device — no cookies, no local storage — so the count of people on a page is genuinely approximate and we’re fine with that. Vercel Web Analytics is cookieless by design too.
The one thing we do store on your device is the session cookie that keeps you signed in after you enter your code. It’s strictly necessary for the site to work, which is why it doesn’t need consent, and it goes when you sign out.
Why we hold it, and who else sees it
Your email is there so you can sign in and so we can reach you about your account. The rest is there because it is the product — a record is not much use if it forgets. We look at analytics to work out which parts of the site are worth building on.
Your record is private by default. It isn’t shown to other users, it is never sold, and it isn’t shared with anyone except the services that run the site: Supabase (database and sign-in), Vercel (hosting), Resend (sending your sign-in codes) and PostHog (analytics). Each of them holds the data to do that job and nothing more.
How long we keep it
Your account and your record are kept until you delete them. We don’t expire accounts for inactivity — a record you come back to after three years should still be there, so deleting it quietly would defeat the point.
Analytics events are retained by PostHog on its own schedule, and because analytics no longer stores anything on your device, events collected while you were signed out aren’t linked to you at all.
Deleting everything
There’s a button. It’s at the bottom of your preferences, it asks you to type the word DELETE so you can’t hit it by accident, and then it does exactly what it says: your account, your readings, your performances, your adaptations, your preferences, your follows and your stored email address are removed immediately. Nothing is soft-deleted, held in a recycle bin, or kept in reserve — which also means we can’t undo it for you.
If you’d rather we did it, or you want a copy of your data, or you want something corrected, write to hello@sevenages.app and we’ll handle it. You also have the right to complain to your data protection regulator — in the UK that’s the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Changes, and getting in touch
If this page changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes with it. Questions, corrections, or anything that looks wrong anywhere on the site: hello@sevenages.app.
Seven Ages is made by Noble Fluency LLC, which is the data controller for everything described here.
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