Plays of the Ages

Privacy

What we collect, why we collect it, who else touches it, and how to get it back or have it deleted.

Last updated 24 August 2026 · Plays of the Ages is run by 69 Kittredge. Questions go to ongoings@playsoftheages.com.

What we hold, and only when

If you are just looking

Nothing that identifies you. There is no analytics service on this site, no advertising network, and no third-party tracker. Our host keeps ordinary server logs — the kind every web server keeps — and we do not build profiles from them. Our typefaces are served by Google Fonts, so Google sees the IP address your browser asks from; nothing else on this page comes from anyone but us.

If you sign up for the letter

• Your email address and which page you signed up from. Nothing else. Every letter has an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing means we stop, not that we keep you on a list marked "stopped".

If you RSVP to listen to a reading

• Your email address and which reading you said yes to. You get one reminder before that reading. It does not put you on the letter — those are separate on purpose.

If you suggest a work, or adopt a scan

• What you typed — the title, author, translator, source, and any note.
• Your name and email, if you gave them, so we can tell you what happened.

If you make an account

• Your email address, held by our authentication provider. We sign you in with a link rather than a password, so there is no password to store or lose.
• A display name, and anything else you choose to add — a picture, a line about yourself, a city, a country, a timezone. All optional. The timezone is used to show you reading times in your own clock.
• Which parts you claimed, and in which readings.

If you become a member

• Your card details never reach us. Stripe handles the payment and holds the card. We store the identifiers Stripe gives us, whether the membership is active, and when the current period ends — enough to know whether you have a seat.

If you are in a reading

• Your voice and, if you turn it on, your picture, live, for the length of the reading. Cameras start off. You choose whether to turn one on.
• Whether you were there, and whether you agreed to be recorded, kept per person and per reading rather than once and forever.

Recordings

A reading is only ever recorded when two separate things are true: the rights on the play allow it, and the room consents. Rights come first and are not a preference anyone can override — a play we are reading under a licence that forbids recording cannot be recorded, whatever the room wants.

Consent is asked when you join, not buried in a setting. It is recorded against you and that reading alone; agreeing once does not agree for next month.

If a recording exists that you are in and you would rather it did not, email us and we will take it down. You do not have to explain yourself, and we will not ask the others first.

Who else touches it

We use other companies to run this. Each of them sees only what their part of the job needs.

• Supabase — the database and sign-in. Holds everything described above except payments and video.
• Netlify — serves the website and runs the small server functions behind it.
• Daily — carries the live video and audio of a reading, and stores a recording when one is made.
• Stripe — takes the payment. Holds your card; we never see it.
• Resend — delivers our email. Sees the address it is delivering to.

What we never do

• We do not sell your information. Not to anyone, not in any form.
• We do not run advertising, and nobody pays us to put anything in front of you.
• We do not track you across other websites. There is no pixel, no fingerprinting, no advertising cookie.
• We do not store transcripts of readings. The video service is set up not to keep them, and we have never asked it for one.
• We do not read your script if you upload one. A play you upload as its author stays yours; reading it here grants nothing to anyone who reads in it, and you can withdraw it at any time.

Cookies

One kind only: the token that keeps you signed in, stored by your own browser. It does nothing else and it is not shared. There is no consent banner here because we set nothing that would need one — no advertising cookie, no analytics, no cross-site identifier.

How long we keep things

• Letter and reminder addresses — until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove them.
• Your account — until you close it.
• Payment records — as long as tax and accounting rules require, which is longer than we would otherwise keep them.
• Recordings — until you or another reader in them asks for removal.

Getting your information, or getting rid of it

Email ongoings@playsoftheages.com and ask. You can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct something, or ask us to delete it. We will do it, and we will not make you explain why or send you through a form designed to change your mind.

Deleting your account removes your profile and disconnects you from the parts you read. Where a recording still exists that other people are also in, we take you out of it or remove it, depending on what is possible.

Where this operates

Plays of the Ages is run from the United States and is currently open to people in the United States. Our service providers are US-based and your information is processed there.

Age

You need to be 13 or older to make an account here. If you are under 18, please have a parent or guardian look at this page with you before you take a part. Some of the plays we read are emphatically for grown-ups — the season opens with an unexpurgated Lysistrata — and where a play needs a note about its content we put that note on the play's own page. Read the page before you take a part in it.

If this page changes

We will change the date at the top and, if the change actually affects you, say so in the letter rather than hoping you notice.