Last updated 2026-10-21.
This page explains what personal data autoseq collects, why, and what you can do about it. We've tried to write it in plain language rather than legal boilerplate.
autoseq is operated by Jonathan Booth. If you have any question about this policy or your data, use the contact form.
When you sign in with Google, we receive your email address and a unique ID for your Google account - that's it; we don't ask Google for your name, photo, or anything else, and we don't keep a record of your IP address or sign-in times ourselves.
Beyond that, the only other data is what you actively create while using the site: your collections, the feeds you subscribe to, and your reading position in them. None of that is personal data about you beyond being tied to your account.
While autoseq is invite-only, we also record which account's invite you joined with, and which invites you've made and when they were used. Whoever invited you sees only that their invite was used and when, never who used it. We don't ask who an invite is for. If either account is deleted, that record goes with it.
We don't run any analytics or advertising trackers, and we don't use cookies for anything except keeping you signed in (see "Cookies" below).
Your email address and sign-in ID are how we recognize you - we can't offer you an account without them. Everything else you create (collections, feeds, reading position) exists purely to make the product work: that's the whole point of the site. We've deliberately kept this to the minimum needed to run the service.
We host autoseq on Cloudflare's infrastructure, so Cloudflare processes your data on our behalf as part of running the service (see Cloudflare's privacy policy). Because Cloudflare operates a global network, your data may be processed in countries other than your own. Like any host, Cloudflare's own infrastructure briefly sees connection details (including your IP address) as a normal part of serving each request, kept under Cloudflare's own (typically short) retention schedule - separate from, and shorter than, anything described below that we store ourselves.
When you create an account or use the contact form, Cloudflare Turnstile runs a short check in your browser that you're a person rather than an automated script. It's part of Cloudflare's service, covered by the policy linked above. We only learn whether the check passed; that answer isn't linked to you, and we discard it within a day.
When setting up certain feeds, we may ask Cloudflare's AI service to read the public HTML of a page you're subscribing to, so it can figure out how to find that site's "next" link. This is about the structure of a public webpage, not about you, and no personal data is involved.
We don't sell your data, and we don't share it with anyone else.
We set exactly one cookie, to keep you signed in. It's not used for tracking or advertising, and it expires automatically after 30 days.
We keep your data for as long as your account exists. If you delete your account, everything tied to it - your email, collections, feeds, and reading history - is removed from our live systems immediately, not just hidden. Our database host (Cloudflare) also keeps rolling backups for up to 30 days for disaster recovery, so a trace of it can persist there for up to that long afterward; past that window it's gone entirely.
From the account page, you can download your collections, feeds, and subscriptions at any time, and delete your account entirely whenever you want - no need to ask us for either. For anything else - correcting something, objecting to how we're using your data, or any other request (for example, if you're in the EU and want to exercise your GDPR rights) - use the contact form and we'll sort it out.
autoseq isn't directed at children, and we don't knowingly collect data from anyone under 16.
If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page.