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Privacy Policy

By Sandro Andreatta, historian Updated

Last updated: 10 November 2026

This page explains what happens with your data when you visit The War Shelf (thewarshelf.com), sign up for the newsletter or click a link to Amazon.

The short version: this site sets no cookies, shows no ads and uses no tracking or statistics tools. Book covers load from Open Library. If you sign up for the newsletter, your email address goes to Brevo. If you click a link to Amazon, Amazon's own privacy notice applies from then on.

Who is responsible

Sandro Andreatta, Switzerland. Email: hello@thewarshelf.com

Hosting: Cloudflare

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages by Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. When you open a page, your browser sends technical data to Cloudflare's servers: your IP address, the page you asked for, the time, and your browser and operating system. Cloudflare needs this to deliver the site and to protect it against attacks. This site does not use that data to identify or follow you.

Cloudflare is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. More: Cloudflare privacy policy.

Book covers: Open Library

Book covers are shown from Open Library, a project of the Internet Archive, 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA. To show a cover, your browser loads the image directly from Open Library's servers (covers.openlibrary.org and archive.org). They receive your IP address and browser details, as with any website you visit. No cookies are set by this site for this. More: Internet Archive terms and privacy.

Later, covers may come from Amazon's servers instead. This page will be updated when that happens.

Some links to Amazon on this site may be affiliate links (Amazon Associates). Nothing is sent to Amazon when you only view a page. If you click such a link, you go to Amazon's website, and Amazon may use cookies to record that you came from this site, so that a purchase can be credited to it. This site only receives aggregated sales reports from Amazon, never your name or what else you buy. From the moment you are on Amazon, Amazon's privacy notice applies: Amazon privacy notice. More about how the site earns money: Affiliate Disclosure.

Newsletter: Brevo

You can sign up for the War Shelf newsletter and for Sandro's fiction (the free Witch Field story and news about his books). You choose which with the checkboxes on the form.

  • What is stored: your email address, the lists you chose, and the time and IP address of your sign-up and of your confirmation.
  • Double opt-in: you get an email with a confirmation link. Nothing is sent before you confirm.
  • Who processes it: Brevo (Sendinblue SAS), 106 boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris, France, which stores the data in the EU. Brevo may record whether an email is opened and which links in it are clicked. More: Brevo privacy policy.
  • Legal basis: your consent. You can withdraw it at any time with the unsubscribe link in every email, or by writing to hello@thewarshelf.com. Your address is then removed from the lists.

The sign-up form sends your address through this site's server function (on Cloudflare) straight to Brevo. It is not stored anywhere else.

Emails to this site

If you write to hello@thewarshelf.com, for example to submit a book, your message and address are used only to answer you and are not passed on.

In your browser

The site remembers whether you chose the light or dark theme. This is saved only in your own browser (local storage) and never sent anywhere. You can delete it by clearing your browser data.

Recommendations link to posts and videos on Instagram, YouTube and other sites. These are plain links: nothing from those sites loads until you click. After you click, their privacy policies apply.

Your rights

You can ask what data about you is stored, have it corrected or deleted, object to its use, and withdraw your consent at any time. Write to hello@thewarshelf.com. You can also complain to a data protection authority: in Switzerland the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), in the EU the authority of your country.