The site is designed to collect as little information as it needs to do the job.
Updated September 27, 2026
Correspondence and announcements
This website links to email contacts and to the official Echoes of Asgard announcement-request page. It does not submit a contact form or automatically subscribe visitors. If you send an email, the recipients receive the information you choose to include so they can respond. A general inquiry is not consent to receive marketing messages.
Announcement signup uses a Google Apps Script page, where you choose your interests and give consent before confirming your email address. Follow the confirmation instructions on Echoes announcements and review the Echoes privacy notice. Request removal or ask about your correspondence through Chris@echoes-of-asgard.com.
Free samples and reader feedback
Added October 19, 2026
The free-sample link opens a Google Apps Script page. When you request the prologue and Chapter One, your email address, request source, timestamps and delivery status are recorded in a private Google Sheet to send the sample and keep a record of the request. Requesting the sample does not subscribe you to a newsletter.
The reader-feedback page uses Google Apps Script and a private Google Sheet to record the reading scope you select (sample, full book or other), any First 50 reader indication, your responses and any optional name or email address you provide. Feedback is private unless you separately give permission for a quote to be published. Quote permission is optional and unticked by default, with a separate choice of anonymous or named attribution. Contact details are never included in a published quote. Sending feedback does not subscribe you to a newsletter.
The website is hosted through Cloudflare. Hosting and security services may process network and technical information needed to deliver and protect the website. Google Analytics is not enabled in this website package.
Retailer links
Book orders take place on the linked retailer's website. That retailer handles checkout and payment information under its own terms and privacy notice. This website does not collect payment-card details.
Future changes
If additional data-collection services are introduced, this notice will be updated to describe them. Questions about this website can be sent to the author contact above.
Bookshop cart and guided help
Added October 26, 2026. The bookshop saves the selected product, quantity and a random checkout-attempt reference in your browser’s local storage so your cart can remain on this site after a reload and a repeated checkout request can reuse the same attempt. It does not save your name, email, address or payment details. Each website has its own browser cart; this does not track you across the two domains. Remove the item or clear this site’s browser storage to clear it.
The book guide is a fixed FAQ, not a live person or generative AI. Your selected questions are answered in the browser and are not sent to an AI service. A dismissed help prompt is remembered for the browser session. Saving a cart does not subscribe you to the newsletter or send an abandoned-cart email.
Direct checkout is not enabled in this release. The Amazon, Google sample and optional newsletter links use their respective services as described above. Before direct ordering is enabled, this notice and the order policies must identify the active payment, fulfillment and customer-data handling arrangements.
Immersive guide and executive enquiries
Updated November 8, 2026. The guide remembers sound volume, mute and reader-panel preferences in this browser. Session storage records which introduction or guide has played so that it does not repeat unnecessarily. Clear this site’s browser storage to reset those preferences. These settings are not a newsletter signup.
The signed-book and merchandise enquiry form prepares an email in your email app. You must review and send it yourself. This version does not save the form’s name, email, dedication or country fields to browser storage or submit them to a signup sheet.
The executive-request backend and optional engagement measurement are disabled in this release. The executive page provides a direct email fallback. No executive account or confidential-document access is created by that page. Before backend collection is enabled, this notice will identify the active data handling, retention and access arrangements.
The prepared optional measurement feature is designed to collect scene and guide events with a random session identifier only after a visitor opts in. It is not active in this release. Hosting and security services can still process technical request information as described above.