Privacy policy
As of: 11.11.2026
Controller
Joel Pfadenhauer
c/o Frey Services
Eggstrasse 14f
8134 Adliswil
Schweiz
narrenbibel@pm.me
Visiting the website
When you visit, our hosting provider (Hosttech GmbH, Schweiz) processes technically necessary data such as IP address, time and requested page in server logs to keep the site secure. This website loads no content, fonts or scripts from third parties, uses no analytics or advertising services and builds no profiles.
We count per day how often the start page, the reading sample and the checkout were opened – as plain totals without any personal reference. Likewise we count, as daily totals, which search engines and AI services (for example ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot) fetch our pages or send visitors to us – recognised by the program name or the referring site, without storing anything that could lead back to a person. To prevent abuse (too many attempts in a short time) we store IP addresses for at most two days and only in irreversibly hashed form.
The Echo (statistics of this site)
For the public page “The Echo” we count how many pages of this website are opened per minute, per day and per area (such as the lexicon, the forest, the Catalysis). Only the total is stored (for example “minute 14:05: three visits”, “today: twelve visits in the lexicon”); no IP address, no cookie, no identifier, no language, nothing that could lead back to you. The per-minute counters are deleted after two days. Likewise we count, as a total, how often this site’s search and our open interface for AI agents are used – not what was searched for.
In addition we ask public services how often the Foolsbible appears there: Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools (totals only, which the search engines deliver anonymised anyway), Wikipedia/Wikidata, GDELT (news), Bluesky, Mastodon, Hacker News, Google Books, Open Library, the Internet Archive and – if set up – YouTube. Nothing about you is passed to these services; only the names of the book are asked for. Of posts on social networks we show only the number, no names and no contents.
From our own database the Echo also shows totals of orders (number, form, edition, month, the list of destination countries), unique copies taken, downloads and the number of subscribers to the letters – never names, addresses, e-mail addresses or amounts.
Cookies
If you choose a language, the website remembers it in a functional cookie (nb_lang, one year). We set no other cookies.
Orders
For an order we process your given name and surname, e-mail address, the chosen form (PDF, print or bound copy), language and payment method, and the receipt of payment – and for the print and the bound copy also the delivery address and telephone number, and in some countries a tax or identity number required by customs. We use these details solely to fulfil the contract of sale: to match your payment, deliver the PDF or ship your book, and keep you informed. The data is stored on our hosting provider's server in Switzerland. We keep order data as long as statutory retention duties require (generally ten years for accounting records).
The PDF. We count how often your personal download link has been used, so that it serves only as often as stated. We collect no other data about your reading.
The print. A “print” is printed on demand by Lulu Press, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina, USA) and shipped directly to you, usually from a printing facility close to the destination. For this we transmit to Lulu your name, delivery address, telephone number, e-mail address, where applicable the tax or identity number for customs, and the book and quantity – but not your payment details. Lulu and the carrier use these details to produce and deliver the book and may contact you about the delivery. Lulu also processes data in the USA; Lulu's privacy policy applies (lulu.com/privacy).
The bound copy we ship ourselves; name, address and telephone number go to the postal or parcel service for this.
If you pay by card, TWINT, Apple Pay or Google Pay, you are redirected to Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., Ireland), which processes your payment data under its own responsibility; we only receive confirmation of payment. Stripe’s privacy policy applies (stripe.com/privacy).
If you choose PayPal, you are redirected to PayPal (PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., Luxembourg), which processes your payment data under its own responsibility; we only transmit the amount, the order code and the name of the book and receive confirmation of payment. PayPal’s privacy statement applies (paypal.com/ch/legalhub/privacy-full).
This website embeds no scripts from Stripe or PayPal; you only meet either service once you are redirected to it.
Contact form
If you write to us through the contact form, we receive your message, your name (if given) and your e-mail address by e-mail in order to reply. Nothing of it is stored on the server.
Letters from the workshop
If you sign up, we store your e-mail address, the time and a hashed IP address and send you one mail with a confirmation link. Only after you confirm do we write to you (double opt-in); we then store the time of confirmation as proof. You can unsubscribe at any time; the address is then deleted. Unconfirmed addresses are deleted after 30 days.
The forest
In a hidden part of this website lies a forest: people let their own works (PDF) or thoughts grow there as branches or sow them as trees of their own, connect them with others and answer one another – with text and images, without sign-up and without profile. A name is optional. Your browser stores nothing there (no cookie, no web storage).
What we store – and what we do not. For a branch or a tree of your own: title, text or file, optionally a name, language, link, your statement on the use of AI and the connections to other things in the forest. For an answer: text, optionally a name, and the time. Answers remain until we remove them (for example because they are unlawful) or you ask us to. We store your IP address with no contribution. To curb abuse we briefly count how often someone writes from one connection – hashed with a daily key that is created anew each day and deleted after two days; after that nothing can be linked to an address any more, not even by us. There are no cookies and no sign-in in the Forest. Deleted data is overwritten in the database. Anything visible can be seen and downloaded by anyone. By uploading you confirm that you hold the rights. We remove anything clearly unlawful as soon as we learn of it – write to us with the title of the seed. We pass none of this on to third parties.
Your rights
You have the right to access, rectification, erasure and portability of your data and the right to object to processing. Write to us at the address above. Legal bases are the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and, where applicable, the GDPR (Art. 6(1)(a), (b), (c) and (f)).