Privacy

Twenty Suns is a free fan project run by one person, Eric (who writes as E. Lawrence Anderson). It keeps as little about you as it can, and it never sells or shares it.

The launch list

If you signed up for launch news, we store:

• Your email address.
• Whether you signed up as a founding writer or a reader, and your pen name if you gave one.
• When you signed up, confirmed or unsubscribed.
• A scrambled code made from your network address, and your country. The code is made with a secret key and can't be turned back into your address. It's used only to stop one connection from flooding the sign-up form.

We use it only to send the emails you asked for: the confirmation, the launch announcement, and the results email after each Reckoning. No ads, no tracking pixels, no analytics cookies.

Accounts in the arena

When the arena is open and you create an account, we also store:

• Your email address, your pen name and your date of birth. Your birthday is used only to check you're 13 or older and is never shown to anyone.
• Your stories, with their title, summary and the automatic screening report, and your votes and reports.
• The scrambled network code (see above) on your sign-ins, votes and account, plus how long a story was open before you voted. These exist only to catch vote-stuffing and fake accounts, and only Eric sees them.
• Two small cookies: one keeps you signed in, one remembers a visitor's shuffle order on the Challengers page. The sound switch is remembered in your own browser only.

Who else sees it

Your pen name, your stories and their results are public; that's the point of the arena. Your email, birthday and network codes are never shown to anyone. Beyond that:

• Cloudflare hosts the site, stores the data and delivers the emails.
• Anthropic (the maker of the Claude AI) reads each entered story once, to check it's suitable for 13+, is a Star Wars story and has an ending. Anthropic doesn't use it to train its models.
• When a story is about to enter the Hall of Legends, a few short passages from it are searched on the web to check it wasn't copied from somewhere else.

Nothing is sold or shared with anyone else, ever.

Age

Twenty Suns is for people 13 and older. If we learn someone under 13 has signed up or made an account, we delete it.

Getting it changed or deleted

Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link. You can delete your account yourself from My account; that removes your email, birthday, stories and votes. We keep only a fingerprint of each story (a string of numbers made from the text, not the text itself) and any strikes against the account, so deleting and rejoining can't be used to get around the rules. Stories already in the Hall of Legends stay there, as the house rules explain, but you can ask for your name to be taken off. For anything else, email hello@twentysuns.com from the address you use, and it will be done.

Twenty Suns is an unofficial, non-commercial fan project, not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd. or The Walt Disney Company.