Last updated: March 2025
This page explains what we keep when you use the site or write to us, why we keep it, and what you can ask us to do with it.
When you send a message or ask about a commission, we keep what you have typed: your name, your email address and the details of your request.
The site also records ordinary technical information, such as the type of browser used and the pages opened, so we can tell what is slow or broken.
When you write to us about a myth you'd like us to illustrate, or a legend you want traced back to its oldest telling, we keep that message for as long as we're in conversation and for a little while after. If your message turns into a commissioned manuscript or print, we hold those records longer, since we may need to refer back to the story, the details of the piece, and when it was sent.
We never sell your details to anyone. Your information is only passed to the services that help us keep this archive of myths and folklore running — our mailing platform, our printer for commissioned manuscripts, our payment processor — and each one only receives the small piece of information it actually needs.
Only the handful of people who help research, write and illustrate these stories can see your details, and everything you send through this site — a message about a legend, a request for a commissioned piece — travels over an encrypted connection.
You're welcome to ask what information we hold about you, to have it corrected if something's wrong, or to have it deleted altogether. Send us a note and we'll write back to confirm once it's been done.
This site uses a small number of cookies to remember your preferences as you browse through tales of gods, heroes and tricksters. A full list of what they do, and how to turn them off, is set out in our separate cookie notice.
If anything here changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top, much like a legend shifts slightly with every telling.
Anything you're unsure about, send through our contact page — we'll answer plainly, no riddles like an old oracle.