Last revised 17 August 2026.
I · What this site records
The short version: this site sets no cookies, loads nothing from another company, and asks a person for three things only when that person chooses to write to the laboratory. Everything below states the same thing at greater length, because a short version is not a record.
Tracking
There is no analytics, no tag manager, no advertising pixel, no embedded video, no social widget, and no third party font service. Every file the pages load comes from this domain. A build check verifies that claim on every page before a release goes out, so the sentence cannot quietly stop being true.
Because nothing tracks you, there is nothing to opt out of. A Global Privacy Control signal changes nothing here, and it does not need to.
The pages send nothing to a language model while you read them. The animation over the plate is arithmetic on pixels in your own browser.
The intake slip
The form at correspondence collects the address you type, the subject line you type, and the message you type. It also carries the classification you tick, which exists so the laboratory can tell an engagement enquiry from a research letter. Nothing else is gathered from the page: no fingerprint, no session identifier, no page history.
The form holds one field that is invisible to people. Automated submissions fill it and are discarded on arrival. If you are reading this because a screen reader announced that field, it is a spam trap, and leaving it empty is correct.
When a slip is submitted, the server counts how many submissions have come from your network address in the previous ten minutes and refuses the sixth. That count holds the address in memory only, for those ten minutes, and writes it nowhere.
Submitted slips are relayed to [PLACEHOLDER: intake destination and the company operating it]. Correspondence is kept for [PLACEHOLDER: retention period] and then [PLACEHOLDER: deleted or archived, whichever is true].
Server logs
The site runs on [PLACEHOLDER: hosting provider]. Hosts keep ordinary request logs, typically the network address, the time, the page requested, and the browser string. Those logs belong to the host and follow the host’s retention schedule: [PLACEHOLDER: log retention].
Your rights over what you sent
Write to [PLACEHOLDER: privacy contact address] and ask for a copy of your correspondence, a correction to it, or its deletion. The laboratory answers those requests itself; there is no portal and no account to sign into.
The laboratory does not sell personal information, does not share it for cross context behavioural advertising, and does not use it to train models. Residents of California, of the European Economic Area, and of the United Kingdom have specific statutory rights over their personal information, and the laboratory honours them by the same route: write, and ask.
This site is not directed to children, and the laboratory does not knowingly collect information from anyone under thirteen.
II · Accessibility
The laboratory builds toward WCAG 2.2 level AA. This statement says what is checked, what is known to fall short, and what has not been tested yet. It does not claim compliance, because a claim is not a test.
Checked mechanically, every release
- Every run of text is measured against the colour actually behind it and must meet the AA ratio for its size. Text over the painting is measured against the painting’s own pixels, worst case rather than average.
- Every image carries alternative text or is marked decorative.
- Every form control has a name a screen reader can announce.
- Each page has one first level heading and skips no levels.
- Each page has a language, a title of its own, and a skip link.
Known deviations
- The hairline rules between records sit at low contrast against the paper. They separate rows visually and carry no information that the text does not already carry.
- The ochre dot beside a running experiment is low contrast and is hidden from assistive technology. The word RUNNING next to it carries the state, so no meaning depends on that colour.
- The plate animates unless your browser asks for reduced motion, in which case the painting stands still.
Not yet tested
A full screen reader pass, a 200 per cent zoom pass, and a mobile screen reader pass are outstanding. Automated checks find some barriers and miss others, and the laboratory would rather say so than imply the list above is the whole territory.
Reporting a barrier
Write through correspondence and mark the enquiry Other. Describe the page and what your browser or assistive software did. The laboratory answers accessibility reports in the order they arrive and will say what it intends to do about each one.
III · Terms of use
Draft. A lawyer has not reviewed this text, and the operating entity and governing law below are unfilled. Treat this section as a statement of intent until both are settled.
Who operates the site
PurelyConceptual is operated by [PLACEHOLDER: legal entity name and form], registered at [PLACEHOLDER: registered address].
What the record is, and is not
The experiments, campaigns, and holdings published here describe work the laboratory carried out. They are a record, not advice. A result obtained under one apparatus may not hold under yours, and the laboratory publishes inconclusive and abandoned work precisely so that the record stays honest about that.
Nothing on this site is an offer to contract. An engagement begins when both parties sign an agreement, and that agreement governs the work, not these terms.
Using the material here
Quote the record and link to it. Attribution should name the laboratory and the plate number. The text and code of this site belong to the operator; the paintings are in the public domain and carry their own attributions; the typefaces belong to their designers under the licences named in section IV. None of those three permissions extends to the others.
Do not present the laboratory as endorsing, supplying, or collaborating on work it has not agreed to. Do not attempt to reach parts of the service that are not published. Automated collection is acceptable at a rate that does not degrade the site for other readers.
Warranty and liability
The site is provided as it stands, without warranty of any kind, including fitness for a particular purpose. To the extent the law allows, the operator is not liable for loss arising from use of this site or reliance on the record published here.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of [PLACEHOLDER: governing jurisdiction], and disputes go to the courts of [PLACEHOLDER: venue].
IV · Materials and licences
The attribution is not a legal footnote here; it is the aesthetic. Everything the site is made of is named, with the terms it arrived under.
Plates
Plates II onward are not published. Candidates and their provenance questions are held in the project’s content register until each one is settled.
Typefaces
Software
The site is built with Next.js and React, both under the MIT licence, and ships no other runtime dependency. The build uses caniuse-lite, browser support data under CC BY 4.0 by the caniuse contributors, which is named here because that licence asks for a credit. No part of it reaches your browser.
How the pages were written
The site was designed and built with AI assistance, and a person reviewed every page, every claim, and every asset before publication. The laboratory publishes no invented figures. Where a fact is not settled yet, the page prints a placeholder at distance rather than an estimate, which is why unfilled values are visible instead of hidden.
