Privacy.

Reading and saving.

Bookmarks, your accent colour, the day/night preference, the time of your last visit, your map discovery passport, daily geography answers, your daily pantry puzzle guesses and streak, and the name and place you last signed a note with stay in your browser’s local storage. They are not sent to our server. Clearing this site’s browser data removes them, and Your table has a button to forget your name. Small first-party preference cookies remember your language, colour and appearance so pages open the way you like. We also set a random first-party reader cookie to protect forms and keep one reaction per story; it expires after a year. These cookies contain no name or email address.

Votes, taste marks and thanks.

When you vote in the weekly poll, mark a pantry food as tasted, want to try or growing, or thank a reader for a note, we store that choice with its date and a keyed hash of your reader cookie, so each reader counts once and can change their mind. Only totals are shown publicly. Your own marks appear on Your table in this browser.

Notes, finds, answers and contributions.

We store the name or pen name, optional place, text and any shop or link you submit, together with its date, review status and a keyed hash of your reader cookie used only to deal with abuse. Answers to the week’s question also keep the question they answered. Approved notes, finds, answers and contributions are public. Do not include private contact details or information you do not want published. To ask for a correction or removal, submit a note identifying the item through Around the table.

The letter.

If you leave an email address for the letter, we store the address, the date and the page it came from, and nothing else. It is used only to send the Sendewicz letter once it starts, is never shared or sold, and is removed on request through Around the table or by replying to any letter.

Basic operation.

Rate limiting uses a keyed hash of your network address, kept for up to 24 hours. The hosting provider also maintains ordinary web-server access logs. We do not install advertising cookies, third-party analytics or embedded social trackers at launch. Links to other sites take you to their own privacy practices.

Finding food near you.

Find it near you search runs in your browser and only when you ask. If you choose Use my location, your browser asks permission, then rounds your position to about a kilometre and sends it straight to the public OpenStreetMap services Overpass and Nominatim to look up nearby shops. A typed town or postcode is sent to Nominatim. Sendewicz’s server never receives or stores your location. The rounded place is kept in this browser tab’s session storage until you close the tab or choose Change place. Map links open Google, Apple or OpenStreetMap under their own privacy terms.

Your language.

Translations are prepared from our public editorial text and served directly by Sendewicz. Choosing a language does not send your browsing, location or form entries to a translation service. Original source titles, names and reader contributions stay in their original language. Automatic translations can make mistakes; use Read in English to check the original, especially before following food-preservation guidance.

AI and public sources.

Article generation processes public source material. Reader submissions are not automatically sent to an AI writing service. Source-fetch working copies are temporary; published summaries retain links and source titles.