Still Light Stories (“we”, “our”, “the site”) is the written home of two YouTube channels, The Sleepy Sage and The Human Light. This page explains, in plain language, what information is collected when you visit stilllightstories.com, how it is used, and what choices you have. We keep this site deliberately simple: there are no user accounts, no comment forms, and no newsletter sign-ups on these pages.
What we collect
Server logs. This site is served through Cloudflare, our hosting and security provider. When your browser requests a page, Cloudflare automatically records standard technical information — such as your IP address, browser type, device type, the page requested, and the date and time — in server logs. We use this information only to keep the site secure, to understand which stories are being read, and to fix problems. We do not build profiles of individual readers from these logs.
Information you send us. If you contact us through one of the routes on our Contact page, we will receive whatever you choose to share in that message (for example, your YouTube username and the content of your comment). We use it only to read and, where we can, reply to you.
What we do not collect. We do not ask for your name, postal address, payment details, or any account credentials, and we never sell personal information to anyone.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser. This site itself sets only the cookies strictly needed for security and delivery by Cloudflare. The important cookies on this site come from third parties, described below — most notably advertising cookies from Google. You can block or delete cookies at any time in your browser settings; the stories will still be here, and will still read exactly the same.
Advertising — Google AdSense
We use (or are preparing to use) Google AdSense to display advertising on this site, because ads are what keep the stories free to read. Here is what that means for you:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie) enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
- You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of many third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info/choices (or, in Europe, youronlinechoices.eu).
- To learn how Google uses data from sites that use its services, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
We do not control the specific ads shown to you, and we do not receive information that identifies you personally from Google.
Embedded videos and external services
Our story pages embed videos from YouTube using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced player. When you press play, YouTube (Google) may set its own cookies and collect information according to the Google Privacy Policy. Links to our YouTube channels work the same way. This site also loads fonts from Google Fonts, which involves your browser requesting files from Google’s servers.
Analytics
We may use privacy-respecting, aggregate statistics (such as Cloudflare’s built-in web analytics) to see how many people read each story and which pages are most loved. These statistics are anonymous and aggregated; they are not used to identify or track individual visitors across other websites. If we adopt a different analytics tool in future, we will update this policy first.
AI-assisted content
In the interest of honesty: our stories are written by our small team, and some illustrations, narration, and production steps for the companion videos are created with the help of AI tools. This does not change what data we collect — nothing about you is sent to any AI service when you simply read this site.
Children’s privacy
Still Light Stories is written for adults, and our channels are marked “not made for kids”. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information through one of our contact routes, please let us know via the Contact page and we will delete it.
Your choices and rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, and to ask us to correct or delete it. Because we hold almost none, most requests are simple. To make one, reach us through the Contact page and we will respond as promptly as we can.
Changes to this policy
If we change how this site works — for example, by adding a newsletter or a new advertising partner — we will update this page and change the “last updated” date above before the change takes effect. We will never quietly weaken the commitments on this page.
Contact
Questions about this policy are welcome. You can reach the team through the routes listed on our Contact page.