Privacy at East Moment

Topic follows

When you follow topics, East Moment stores your email, optional display name, selected interests, consent time and the page where you joined. A new subscription remains pending until you confirm it by email. Confirmation and unsubscribe links contain a signed one-way email hash, never your raw address. This information is used only for relevant East Moment editorial updates.

Email delivery

East Moment uses Resend to deliver confirmation, welcome and editorial emails. Resend receives the destination address and the email content required for delivery. Reader Question alerts are delivered privately to East Moment so Lijun can review and reply.

Reader Questions and Reader Notes

A Reader Question stores your public name or alias, private email, answer, consent choice and the article context. Responses remain private while Lijun reviews them. A response can become a public Reader Note only when you grant publication permission and then explicitly approve the exact edited wording through a signed email link. Declined drafts are not published.

Article Comments

An article comment stores your public name or alias, private email, comment and article context. Comments remain private until Lijun approves them. Approved comments show the public name, comment, date and any public reply from Lijun; your email is never published.

Polls

Polls use a one-way keyed hash of your normalized email to prevent duplicate votes. The poll record does not store or display your email. Public results contain aggregate counts only.

Analytics

Privacy-friendly Vercel Analytics may measure page traffic. Optional Google Analytics loads only after consent and measures reading behavior such as depth, engaged time, internal links, video plays and anonymous return intervals. A consented browser keeps a first-party retention profile in local storage containing visit timing, session count and the strongest participation type; it contains no name, email or form content and is removed when analytics consent is withdrawn. East Moment never sends form contents or email addresses to analytics.

Removal and unsubscribe requests

You can unsubscribe through the link in an East Moment email without creating an account. You can also correct a Reader Note or request deletion of stored participation data at any time. Email East Moment from the address connected to the request so ownership can be confirmed.