Less than most sites, and all of it is written down here. This page says exactly what is collected, what is not, and how to be taken off the list. It is short because there is not much to say.
This covers raghavakkstudio.com and every page on it. The site is run by me, Raghava KK, working between India and New York. I am the person responsible for the handful of data described below, and studio@raghavakkstudio.com reaches me.
There is one place on this site where you can give me information: the email field on the Calling All Gods page. If you use it, four things are stored:
That is the whole record. No name, no location, no company, no phone number, nothing bought or enriched from anywhere else. I use it for one thing: to write to you about the show and the work. I will write rarely. I do not sell, rent, share, or trade the list, and I will not hand it to a gallery, a fair, or a mailing house.
Since 1 October 2026 the site counts how it is used. I want to know how many people come, from which countries, on phones or desktops, which pages they open, how long they stay on each, how far down they read, what they search for, which works and books they open, and which of the switches they flip. I use this for one thing: to see where the site works and where it loses people, and to redesign it accordingly.
The counting is done in two places. Vercel Web Analytics, run by the company that hosts the site, counts pages; its script is served from this domain, sets no cookie, and tells visitors apart with a hash that is thrown away at the end of each day. Since 2 October 2026 the site also keeps its own small log, because I want to know which of my Instagram posts brings people here, where they go next, and whether they come back. Your browser is given a random number, kept in its own storage, so a second visit can be told from a first. Each page you leave sends a short note: that number, the page, the page before it, how long you looked, how far you scrolled, what you opened, searched or found, the width of your screen, and, if you came through one of my Instagram links, which one. The first note of a visit also says what kind of device and operating system you are on, which app's browser opened the page (Instagram, WhatsApp and the like), your browser's language, the site you came from, and any campaign tags on the link. The country, region and city come from your IP address; the address itself is not kept. None of it knows your name, your email, or anything you have typed, except a search term if you search. It cannot follow you to another site and it is never joined to the email list. What I see is totals and the common routes through the site, never a list of people. There is still no Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no advertising tag, no heatmap, no session recorder, and no fingerprinting script. If your browser sends the Global Privacy Control signal, your browser sends none of these notes. A tap on one of my Instagram links (an address that starts with raghavakkstudio.com/go/) is still counted once on the way through: which link, the country, and the kind of device and app, nothing more. Clearing your browser's site data gives you a new number.
As of 23 September 2026 the typefaces are served from this domain rather than from Google Fonts, so loading a page makes no request to any outside company other than Vercel. The one exception is described next.
The talks page lists filmed talks that
live on YouTube. Two things follow from that. The poster image for
each talk is loaded from YouTube's image server when you scroll to
it, which means YouTube can see your IP address on that page even if
you never press play. And if you do press play, the video is embedded
from youtube-nocookie.com, which is YouTube's reduced
tracking domain: it holds back cookies until you start watching, but
it is still YouTube, and Google's own privacy policy governs what
happens inside that player. Nothing else on the site behaves this way.
The site sets no cookies. There are no advertising cookies, no analytics cookies, and nothing that follows you to another site, which is why this site shows you no cookie banner. The counting described in section 03 works without a cookie; the site's own log uses the random number described there, kept in your browser's storage.
A few settings live in your browser's own storage and nowhere else: which of 18+, PG16 or Kids you chose, whether the ADHD switch is on, whether you have already been through the welcome at the front door, which of the hidden things you have found, and the words of the ADHD stickers you have already seen (so the next visit starts with ones you have not). A few short-lived notes, the fig leaf, the last few ADHD stickers that popped up (so the eye can show you what you missed), the path you took through search and the pages you came through (so that the way back goes where you came from), last only until you close the tab. The site also keeps a count of how many times you have visited, so the analytics can say whether a visitor is new or returning. Your settings themselves are not sent anywhere, though the count in section 03 records which age mode and which switches a visit used.
The eye in the bottom corner holds a small button that drops a sticker on you. It keeps a record in the same place: how long you have been here, which rooms you went through, which works you stopped at, which essays you opened, and where you were when you peeled it. The eye uses that record to show you the way back: the works you saw, and where you stopped. That record stays in your browser. The count in section 03 hears only that the sticker landed, how it came off, rough totals, a range of minutes and of works, and whether you took the way back to a painting, a toy, a book or an essay. Never which works, rooms or essays they were. Clearing your browser's site data removes all of it.
The site is hosted by Vercel, which serves the pages from servers around the world. Like any web host, Vercel records standard request logs: IP address, the page requested, timestamp, browser and device string. I use these only to tell whether the site is working. Vercel also runs the analytics in section 03, which takes the country and city from your IP address and then discards the address, and it holds the site's own log in a private store that only the studio can read. I do not build profiles from any of this and I do not join it to the email list. Vercel acts as my processor and holds these records under its own terms; the analytics totals are kept for as long as my plan allows and then roll off.
Signups are written to a private repository on GitHub that only I can open. GitHub and Vercel are both United States companies, so if you are writing from the European Union, the United Kingdom, or India, your email address is stored in the United States. I rely on the standard contractual clauses those companies publish for that transfer. For European visitors, the legal basis for holding your address is your consent, given when you typed it into the form. For Indian visitors, the same consent is the basis under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act.
Your address stays on the list until you ask to come off, or until the show and its follow-up are finished and the list is no longer needed, whichever comes first. Every email I send will carry a way out. There is no clever re-permissioning, no win-back sequence, no quiet re-adding.
Whatever jurisdiction you are in, write to studio@raghavakkstudio.com and I will:
I aim to do this within a few days and in any case inside a month. You do not have to explain why, and asking costs you nothing. If you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom and you think I have handled this badly, you can complain to your national data protection authority. In India you can raise it with the Data Protection Board.
The mailing list is not intended for anyone under sixteen and I do not knowingly keep a minor's address. If you believe a child has signed up, write to me and I will remove it.
The site is served over HTTPS only. The signup form is validated and rate-shaped, the storage repository is private, and the credential behind it is scoped so narrowly it can touch nothing else. That said, no website can promise perfect security, and I will not pretend otherwise. If something goes wrong with the list I will say so here and, where the law requires it, tell you directly.
If this notice changes, the revision date below changes with it. A change that affects what I do with your address will be announced in the next email rather than slipped in quietly. See also the terms and reservation of rights, which covers the work itself rather than your data.
© 2026 Raghava KK Document v1.4 · 2026-10-04