Privacy

We collect as little as we can.

• Your letter, and the name and town you sign it with, are read by our volunteers, translated, and delivered to the prisoner by our volunteers through ZT or F-Pismo, the Russian prison mail services (how this works). The prison censor reads them too, so please don't include anything you wouldn't want a Russian official to see.
• Your email address is optional and stored only if you ask to hear about a reply. It is never sent to Russia, never shown to the prisoner, and never used for anything else. Every email we send has a link that deletes it.
• Feedback you send from the Donate page is emailed to the site's founder, Petr Kuzmin. An email address left with it is used only to reply to you.
• Your IP address is not stored. We keep a one-way scrambled version for an hour's worth of spam protection. We also check which country it belongs to, using a list kept on our own server (DB-IP's free database), because letters can be sent from Australia only. Nothing is sent to anyone to do that, and the result isn't recorded.
• No cookies, no trackers, no analytics, and no third-party fonts or scripts on this site.

To have a letter or your details removed, reply to any email we've sent you.