Privacy Policy

For contact email, the main website, and the RSS feed, sound files, images, and transcripts for the podcast (The Yellow Light Sound at podcast.theyellowlight.org), the domain of theyellowlight.org is registered through Porkbun in Oregon, USA. Visiting this website does not reveal your information to Porkbun.

This website runs on Ghost software and is hosted through Magic Pages by Jannis Fedoruk-Betshki of Austria. The privacy policy of Magic Pages mostly applies to its customers (such as The Yellow Light), but some details may concern you if you sign up.

Ghost’s settings for this website include checking your email address. If a Gravatar account matches, then this website will pull in the profile photograph on Gravatar for your posts here. As a part of Automattic Inc., it follows its privacy policy in each of the many services that it owns.

For the main website infrastructure, Magic Pages uses Hetzner of Germany. In order to provide the content across the world with minimal delay or downtime, Magic Pages uses BunnyCDN in Slovenia.

Mass messages come through Mailgun, a company in Texas, USA, which is owned by the Swedish company Sinch. Mailgun’s privacy policy also adheres to the GDPR, as per its pledge for data privacy.

Each mailing begins at and are signed by Mailgun. Next, the message gets relayed by Magic Pages. Then, it gets bounced off The Yellow Light, which gives permission for sending to Magic Pages and makes another signature.

Magic Pages outlines some of these companies’ policies.

Podcast media is hosted through Blubrry, a company in Ohio, USA, with a privacy policy. RawVoice, Inc., was the parent company of Blubrry and maintained its legal headquarters in Michigan, USA, until its dissolution on July 15, 2024.

The embedded players on the website are from Public Radio Exchange (PRX). It is a nonprofit company in Massachusetts, USA.

Listening metrics (“statistics” or “stats”) are publicly available through the prefix of OP3 (Open Podcast Prefix Project) in Texas, USA, and a privacy policy that does not share IP addresses with third parties. Cloudflare, which is based in California, USA, hosts OP3’s measurements in accordance with its own privacy policy.

One area where AI is a game changer is in speech-to-text (STT) transcription. The ability to make subtitles quickly and with accurate time codes is a huge step forward for accessibility, and it actually reduces energy demands because a computer can efficiently record and format time codes. Human eyes proofread the output too, of course.

Proponents of AI mischaracterize its abilities and functioning. It only remixes existing novels, letters, art, movies, and music. AI does not create, and it does not credit the authors of the works that it recycles. As such, it has a voracious appetite for content, without the knowledge or permission of creators.

Using AI in contact forms or customer help opens the door for an AI company to use your words in training. Because AI is not universally understood, to use such chat-bots would violate the norm to get your informed consent.