A card rack is a public surface in a small shop, so we keep its rules short and pin them where anyone can read them. This card says what the notebook collects, what it refuses to collect, and how it handles the record it reads.

What the notebook collects

The notebook keeps no account, sets no tracker of its own and asks a reader for nothing. These pages are served as flat files, the same printed card to every reader, with no login window and no reading profile kept behind the counter. The host that serves the site keeps the ordinary technical logs of any workshop: the address a request came from, the page asked for and the time. Those logs are what keep the lights on. No advertiser's tag rides on the card either; the rack keeps no space for one. We read our notes, not our visitors.

What a letter gives us

If you write to the stand, we receive what your letter carries: your address, your name if you sign it, and whatever the note itself contains. We use it to answer you and, where a note changes a card, to correct the card. Letters are kept as part of the stand's working record and are not shared, sold or lent. If you want your note removed, write again and it comes off the spike.

What the cards owe their sources

Every card is checked against a public record before it is filed: a scheme's own documents, an archived page of the old shop, a manual, a newspaper column. The names of those records sit in the margin of each card. Where a memory is the only source, the card says so plainly. Nothing in the notebook is legal, mechanical or financial advice; it is a reader's notes, kept for readers.