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What the forms collect

The reunion form collects the sock's name and how it was found, plus optional tribute reference, discovery date or description, photograph link, and alias. It also asks for confirmation of the report and permission to edit and publish it. Reports go through Web3Forms to the owner's private inbox for review. An approved update may include these details and a photo; submitting a report does not automatically change the public tribute.

The tribute form asks for a sock's name and its story. You can also add when it was last seen, a link to a photograph, an alias to publish alongside the tribute, and a tick in the box requesting an invented obituary. The name, story, and permission to edit and publish are required.

• No email field. The tribute and reunion forms do not ask for your address. If you email the owner separately, your address is included with that message.
• An alias is optional. Leave it blank and the tribute publishes anonymously.
• Anything you type goes to a person. Please keep other people's names, addresses, and private details out of the story.

Delivery runs through Web3Forms, which passes the submission to a private inbox and applies its own spam checks. Read their policy for what they log along the way. Submissions stay in that inbox while the memorial is being edited, and nothing in the repository that builds this site contains the raw record.

What becomes public

If a tribute is published, the public version can include the sock's name, the story after editing, the last-seen note, a photograph, and the alias you chose. The memorial edits freely, so the published wording may differ from what you sent.

Published tributes stay up for as long as the site does, and search engines index them. Once a page is public, other people can screenshot it, archive it, or quote it. Removing a tribute from this site cannot pull those copies back, which is the honest reason to think for a moment before sending anything you would mind seeing in public.

Invented obituaries and AI

The form has a box you can tick to ask for an obituary rather than writing one yourself. Ticking it means the sock's details get pasted into an AI chat to draft something, which is then edited by hand before publication. Your alias is not part of that draft.

Leave the box unticked and your own words are used, with light editing for length and clarity.

Photographs

Photographs arrive as links, so nothing is uploaded to this site directly. If a tribute is published with a photo, a copy of that image is saved and served from the memorial's own files. The original link is not published.

• Share the single photo, not a whole album or a folder that keeps updating.
• Send only pictures you took or have permission to share.
• Faces, house numbers, and documents in the background are worth checking before you send.

What your browser keeps

Leaving a little love on a tribute writes a single value in your browser's local storage, named for that tribute, such as lsm-love-sir-argyle. It never leaves your device. There is no shared counter, no public total, and no way for the memorial to know you did it.

Clearing your browser's site data removes those marks. In a private window, or with storage blocked, the hearts last until you close the tab and the rest of the site keeps working.

Analytics

Every page runs two counters. Google Analytics 4 (property G-YXMEHVZW6Z) records page views and rough location, and sets cookies in your browser to recognize a returning visit. Ahrefs Web Analytics counts traffic and referring links.

Both are there to answer one question, which is whether anyone found the site. To opt out of Google Analytics everywhere, install the Google Analytics opt-out add-on. Google explains its side in how Google uses information from sites that use its services, and Ahrefs explains its own in the Ahrefs privacy policy.

Hosting and fonts

Cloudflare Pages serves this site. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes the requests that deliver each page, including IP addresses, and uses them to keep the site up and to block abuse. Their terms are in the Cloudflare privacy policy.

The two typefaces load from Google Fonts, which means Google receives the IP address of every visitor along with the request for the font files. No cookie is set by those requests.

Advertising

The plan is to add Google AdSense at some point, mostly to cover the domain renewal. Nothing about the memorial depends on it, and anything that gets in the way of reading a sock obituary is not worth the money.

Here is what changes if and when ads appear, written down now so it is not a surprise later. Google and its advertising partners use cookies to serve ads, including the DoubleClick cookie, which lets them base an ad on your earlier visits to this site and to other sites. Third-party vendors and ad networks may also serve ads here and set their own cookies.

• You can turn off personalized advertising at My Ad Center.
• You can opt out of many other vendors at aboutads.info and Your Online Choices in Europe.
• Visitors in the EU, the UK, and Switzerland will be asked for consent before any advertising cookie is set.

This section gets rewritten in the present tense on the day the first ad loads, and the date above changes with it.

Removing or changing a tribute

To request a correction or removal of a tribute, photograph, reunion update, or your submission details, email [email protected]. Use a subject such as "Removal request" or "Correction request".

Include the sock's name or a link and explain what you would like changed or deleted. If the tribute has not been published, include roughly when you submitted it. You do not need to submit another tribute to contact the owner.

The owner reviews requests personally and may ask for enough additional detail to identify the record or clarify your connection to it. Please do not send identity documents or other sensitive personal information.

Removing something from this site cannot remove copies held by other people, search engines, or archive services.

Contacting the owner

For questions about this page or a problem with the site, email [email protected].

If you email, your email address, message, and any attachments arrive in the owner's private inbox and are used to handle your request. Contact messages are not published as tributes. Keep your message limited to the details needed to explain the question or problem.

Things this site does not do

• No mailing list. Emailing the owner does not subscribe you to anything.
• Nothing is sold, traded, or handed to a data broker.
• No accounts, no passwords, no logins of any kind.
• No public gesture totals, leaderboards, or visitor profiles.
• No tracking of you across other websites beyond what the analytics and, later, the ad services described above collect.

The memorial is run by one person in the United States as a hobby. You can contact the owner at [email protected].

Changes to this page

When the site adds something that touches your data, such as a new submission service or a donation link, this page changes first and the date at the top moves with it. There is no notification to sign up for, so the date is the thing to check.