What Finperma keeps, and what it does not

Section 1

The rule behind it

Finperma’s Constitution makes privacy a first principle, in Article I:

1.6 · Privacy by Default

• Privacy is a fundamental condition of human dignity. Personal data, identity, and digital activity belong to the individual unless knowingly and voluntarily entrusted otherwise.
• Personal data shall never be treated as a commodity. Any collection or use of data shall occur only with informed consent, for a clearly stated purpose, and in service of the user rather than the institution.

Two of its Hard Constraints, in Article VII, hold the same line:

Article VII · Hard Constraints

• #6 — User Trust. The Finperma reader is never the product.
• #7 — AI for Assistance, Never Control. AI shall not be used to surveil, manipulate, or control users.

How this page keeps the Constitution

• Informed consent, a clearly stated purpose (Article I, 1.6). Sections 3 and 4 say what is collected, by whom and why, before you subscribe or register.
• Never a commodity (Article I, 1.6; Hard Constraint #6). Finperma does not sell your personal information or share it with advertisers.
• Yours to take back (Article I, 1.6; Article V, 5.2 · Sovereignty over Dependency). You can unsubscribe at any time and ask for your information to be deleted, as Section 7 sets out.
• No surveillance (Hard Constraint #7). finperma.com runs no analytics, tracking or AI on its visitors.
• Truth integrity (Hard Constraint #2). This page states only what is true today, and what Cloudflare and beehiiv say about themselves is attributed to them and linked.

The site’s own tests check this page against the site’s code and against the Constitution’s words. Read the Constitution.

Section 2

Who is responsible

Finperma LLC publishes finperma.com, all Finperma products, and The Roots of Finperma newsletter (called Finperma Fridays on this site), and decides how subscriber information is used.

For anything on this page, including a request about your own information, reach Raven Richardson through the links on finperma.com.

Section 3

On finperma.com

Zero tracking

finperma.com has zero tracking. It runs no analytics, no tracking scripts and no advertising code, sets no cookies, and loads nothing from Google or any other outside service: its fonts and files are served from finperma.com itself.

Your privacy is the default. Anything beyond it happens only with your consent, and only when you get something useful in return.

The only Google service any Finperma product may use is Sign in with Google, and only when you choose it.

What stays in your browser

Two small notes, kept only in your own browser on your own device, and only if you make the choice that creates them:

• Your theme, if you choose light or dark: finperma.theme. Choosing System removes it.
• In The Perennial, the things you save: finperma.perennial.favorites.

finperma.com never receives either. To remove them, clear this site’s data in your browser.

/octave, an early prototype of The Octave that no page links to, keeps its answers in your browser’s storage on your device when you open it, and sends nothing.

Hosting

Cloudflare serves this site. Like any web host, its servers receive each request, including your IP address, in order to deliver the page; Cloudflare’s privacy policy covers what it keeps. Finperma adds no analytics or tracking on top of that.

Cloudflare also asks your browser to report a page that fails to load, so that outages can be found (this is called Network Error Logging). Successful visits are never reported, browsers that do not support it ignore the request, and Cloudflare says it keeps no personal data from these reports.

When you follow a link from here to another site, your browser tells that site only that you came from finperma.com, not which page you were on.

The site is served over an encrypted connection (HTTPS); a plain http address is redirected to it. Files you download, such as the Finperma Cheat Codes, come from finperma.com itself, in the same way as its pages.

Section 4

Subscribing and registering

Every sign-up button on this site (Subscribe, Follow the build, Sow the first seed, Hear when it opens) leads to Finperma’s page on beehiiv, the service that sends Finperma Fridays. Registering for a product that has not opened yet works the same way: openings are announced in the letter. finperma.com itself has no form and never receives what you enter there.

What Finperma receives, and why

Through beehiiv, Finperma sees:

• your email address and whether you are subscribed;
• for each email, whether it was opened and which links were clicked, and when;
• an approximate location, which beehiiv infers from the internet address you use when you open or click.

Finperma uses this to send Finperma Fridays, and to see which issues and links are read, nothing else. If you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom, the basis for this is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by unsubscribing.

To stop opens being recorded, turn off remote images in your email app; clicks on links are still recorded.

beehiiv’s own role

beehiiv handles your subscription for Finperma as its processor (its service provider). For personal information beehiiv collects for its own purposes, its own privacy policy applies. That policy, last updated 6 October 2026, says beehiiv sells or shares some of that information, including for advertising, and offers ways to opt out, including the Global Privacy Control signal. Read beehiiv’s privacy policy before you subscribe.

Products with their own sites

NodeNest and HushStack also have their own sites; anything you register there is kept under the terms on those sites. When a Finperma product opens its own registration, it will say what it keeps, and why, before you register, as Article I, 1.6 requires.

Section 5

Other sites

Links that leave finperma.com take you to places with their own practices:

• beehiiv, for Finperma Fridays and its past issues;
• NodeNest and HushStack, at their own sites;
• the Harada Method worksheet on The Guest List, on GitHub Pages;
• Raven Richardson’s profiles on X, LinkedIn, Primal (Nostr) and GitHub.

The Lightning address on the home page, raven@primal.net, is hosted by Primal. A payment you send goes from your own wallet; finperma.com plays no part in it and keeps no record of it. The Copy button only writes the address to your clipboard.

Section 6

How long, and where

• The notes in your browser stay until you clear them.
• Your subscription stays while you are subscribed. Unsubscribing stops the emails; to have your address and its history removed from the list, ask, and it will be deleted.
• What Cloudflare and beehiiv keep for their own purposes is set out in their own policies.

beehiiv is based in the United States and says it processes information there and elsewhere in the world; Cloudflare runs servers around the world. If you live outside the United States, your information may be processed in other countries.

Section 7

Your rights

Depending on where you live, the law may give you the right to see the personal information held about you, to correct it, to have it deleted, to receive a copy, to object to its use, and to withdraw your consent. Finperma honours these requests from anyone, wherever they live: ask through the links on finperma.com. If you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you can also complain to your data protection authority.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

finperma.com does not track you across sites, so there is nothing here for a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal to switch off. beehiiv says it treats a browser sending Global Privacy Control as having opted out of its own selling or sharing.

Children

finperma.com is written for adults. It is not directed to children under 13, and Finperma does not knowingly collect their personal information. If you believe a child has subscribed, ask, and the address will be deleted.

Section 8

Changes

When what finperma.com or Finperma Fridays collects or sends changes, this page changes with it, and the date below moves.