What this site collects
Close to nothing. The pages are static files served from a CDN, and the only form anywhere on the site is the mailing list signup.
Everything below describes what that form does. If you never use it, this site holds nothing about you at all.
The mailing list
Signing up puts your address in a database table inside this site's own AWS account. It goes nowhere else, and the list has never been shared or sold.
- What is stored
- The email address and the time of the signup. A confirmation token and the IP address the form was submitted from are stored alongside them.
- Where
- One DynamoDB table in the AWS account that runs this site, in the us-east-1 region.
- How long
- Until you ask for the record to be deleted. Unsubscribing keeps the record and marks it unsubscribed, which is what stops the mail.
- Backups
- The table is backed up continuously, so a deleted record can survive in that backup until the window rolls past it.
No mail is going out yet. Amazon SES still has this account in its sandbox, so a signup is held with a pending status and the confirmation email waits until that changes.
Server logs
Asking for a loop download on the mixing desk goes to the same function. It keeps a count of downloads per address for the day, so that one address cannot take the whole folder, and that count expires two days later. The link it gives back is good for five minutes and is not stored.
The function behind the signup form writes a line to a log each time it runs. That line records what happened rather than who it happened to, with no email address and no IP in it, and the log group is set to delete itself after two weeks.
In front of all of that sits the CDN. Access logging on it is switched off, so no record of individual requests is written to any bucket this site owns.
Cookies, analytics and other people's scripts
This site sets no cookies. There is no analytics package on it, and the content security policy allows scripts only from this domain, so nothing belonging to anybody else can run on a page here.
Four small things live in your browser's own storage rather than in a cookie: whether the VHS toggle is on, your high scores in the arcade, the saved game for Twisted Dragon, which records where you are in it and what you are carrying, and your settings on the mixing desk, meaning the levels, the equalizer and which loops are switched on. All four are written and read only by this site's own script, and none of them ever leaves your machine. Clearing the browser's site data removes them.
The exception is a music player. A release page can embed one from Bandcamp, Spotify, SoundCloud or YouTube, and from the moment you press play that company sees the request and applies its own privacy policy.
Leaving the list, or deleting your address
Every message carries an unsubscribe link at the foot. Following it marks the address as unsubscribed and the mail stops there. To have the record deleted outright rather than marked, email hello@lostinla.net and say so.
A message sent to that address is kept only as long as the conversation needs it, and the address it came from is never added to the list.
Changes to this page
This page is edited when the site changes, and the date below is the last time that happened. There is no separate notice when it does.
Anything this page leaves open can go to the same address, which the contact page sets out in full. The photographs are other people's work under licenses of their own, and those are listed on the credits page.
Last updated August 25, 2026.