The short version
This page is for grown-ups. Kids can listen to every episode, read every story and explore every scene without typing in a single thing about themselves. We never ask a child for a name, an email or anything else, and we never knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13.
Leo asked if this page could be about him instead. It can’t. It’s about what happens to information on this site, and the honest answer is: very little.
If you’re a kid reading this
Hi. You don’t need to sign up for anything to listen. If something on this site ever asks you for your name or email, go get a grown-up. (The certificate asks for a name, but that one never leaves your computer. See below.)
Counting visitors
We use Vercel Web Analytics to count visits: which pages get read, which website or app sent you here, roughly which country you’re in and what kind of device you’re on. It doesn’t use cookies, doesn’t store anything that identifies you, and can’t follow you to other websites. We only ever see totals, like “40 people read The More Tree’s story page today.” It helps us make more of what families actually listen to.
The Brave Kid certificate
The name you type on the certificate stays in your browser. The certificate is drawn on your own device, and downloading or sharing it doesn’t send the name anywhere.
New-episode emails
Parents and guardians can sign up to get an email when a new episode comes out. The signup is for grown-ups only, and asks you to confirm you’re a parent or guardian, 18 or older.
We keep your email address, the date you signed up and where on the site you signed up. That’s all. You’ll get a short welcome email, then about one email a week when there’s a new episode, and every email has an unsubscribe link. We never sell your email.
To have your email deleted, write to mayaandthefog@gmail.com and we’ll remove it.
Keeping the show free
Maya and the Fog is free, and we’d like to keep it that way. To pay for it, we may add things like sponsors, a short message from a family-friendly brand in an episode, merchandise, or ads on this site.
Whatever we add, we’ll keep two promises: we will never show kids ads based on tracking what they do, and we’ll update this page before anything changes how information is used. Anything we sell is for grown-ups to buy.
Things other companies see
The site is hosted by Vercel, which keeps standard server logs and runs the visitor counting above. Fonts come from Google Fonts, so your browser asks Google for them. Episode pages include a Spotify player, which is Spotify’s own and covered by Spotify’s privacy policy. Listen links take you to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart or YouTube, which have their own policies.
Questions
Email mayaandthefog@gmail.com. A grown-up will answer. (Not Leo.)