“The boundary of the self is sacred.”
CRUCIBEL is built on a simple conviction: the dignity of the individual is not negotiable. This extends beyond the ideas we publish to the way we treat every person who reads them. Privacy is not a legal inconvenience. It is a fundamental expression of respect—for autonomy, for identity, for the sacred boundary between what a person chooses to share and what belongs to them alone.
We do not track you. We do not harvest your data. We do not build behavioral profiles of our readers. We do not sell, lease, trade, or otherwise transfer any information about you to any third party for any reason. We do not deploy cookies designed to follow you across the internet. We do not use analytics platforms that monetize your attention or your identity.
If you subscribe to CRUCIBEL, we collect only what is necessary to deliver the journal to you: your name and your email address or mailing address. That information exists for one purpose—to place this work in your hands. It will never be used for another purpose. It will never be shared with anyone outside this publication. If you ask us to delete it, we will delete it. Completely. Without delay. Without argument.
We do not employ algorithmic recommendation systems to manipulate what you read or when you read it. CRUCIBEL will not notify you, ping you, nudge you, or engineer your engagement. We publish when there is something worth saying. You read when you choose to read. That relationship—between a writer who has done the work and a reader who brings their own judgment—is the only relationship that matters here.
This policy reflects the same principles we advocate in this volume’s pages. In A Constitution for Human Sovereignty in the Age of Machine Intelligence, we argue that there shall exist protected domains of human life where technology may not intrude without explicit consent. In The Digital Humanity Amendment, we propose that every person has the inalienable right to own their digital identity. We refuse to publish those principles in a journal that violates them. The fire that tests ideas must also test the institution that presents them.
Your attention is not our product. Your data is not our currency. Your trust is not our leverage. You are a reader—a thinking, sovereign human being—and you will be treated as nothing less.If you have questions about this policy, or if you believe we have failed to honor it, write to us directly. We will answer you personally. Not with a bot. Not with a form letter. A human being will read your words and respond to them, because that is what respect looks like when it is not merely professed but practiced.