Silicon Desk is a daily news channel. The website does one thing that touches your data: it takes an email address if you choose to give one. There is no advertising, no analytics, no tracking pixel, and no profile built about you.
What the signup form stores
When you submit the form, one row is written to a database. That row is:
| Email address | So the list can be sent. Stored as you typed it, lowercased. |
|---|---|
| Date and time | When you signed up, in UTC. |
| Source | Which part of the page the form was submitted from, if it said. Up to 100 characters. |
| Country | A two-letter country code supplied by our host from your connection. Not a city, not an address. |
| A hash of your IP address | See below. |
Your IP address is not stored
The form is rate-limited so one person cannot submit hundreds of addresses. Doing that needs a way to tell submissions apart — it does not need to know who you are.
So your IP address is combined with a secret value, run through SHA-256, and only the first 32 characters of the result are written down. The address itself is never stored, and the stored value cannot be turned back into it.
Where it goes
- The database is Cloudflare D1, which hosts this site.
- There is no third-party email service. No Mailchimp, no ConvertKit, no CRM. Nothing is exported anywhere.
- Your address is never sold, rented, shared, or swapped.
Cookies
This site sets none. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to.
Two things loaded from elsewhere
Being straight about the parts we do not control:
- Google Fonts. Type is loaded from
fonts.googleapis.comandfonts.gstatic.com, which means Google sees the IP address requesting the font. Google's handling is covered by their own privacy policy, not this one. - YouTube. Episodes embedded on the page load from
youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube's reduced-tracking domain. Watching an embedded video is a visit to YouTube and their terms apply.
How long it is kept
Until you ask for it to go, or until the list stops existing. There is no automatic expiry, and no reason to keep a row for someone who has left.
Getting your data, or getting rid of it
Email hello@silicondesk.news from the address you signed up with, and say whether you want a copy of what is stored or want it deleted. Deletion removes the whole row, hash included. No reason has to be given and nothing is kept to remember that you left.
If you are in the UK, EU, or another place with data protection law, the rights that law gives you — access, correction, deletion, objection, portability — apply here. The list above is all there is to hand over.
Children
This site is not aimed at children and the signup form is not intended for anyone under 13.
Changes
If this changes, the date below changes with it. A change that affects what is collected or who it goes to will also be sent to the list rather than made quietly.
Who to contact
Last updated 3 August 2026.