Email preferences
Changing what you receive
No automated message is being sent to anybody today. If you want to change or withdraw a permission you have given, reply to any message you have had from us, or send one line to apply@thelivingcraft.ai. A person makes the change and it is recorded.
There is no form on this page, deliberately. See “Why there is no form here”.
What is being sent
Nothing, by machine
- No automated email is in service. There is no sending provider, no verified sending domain and no monitored automated mailbox, so no message is sent by machine — including anything marketing-shaped. Ticking the permission box today records the permission and sends nothing.
- There is no acknowledgement email. When you send an application or an enquiry, the confirmation is the message on screen and the reference it gives you. Nothing arrives in your inbox to confirm it.
- A reply from a person is not marketing. If somebody answers a question you asked, that is a human reply to your own message. Withdrawing marketing permission does not stop it, and it should not — you asked.
The permission
What you may have agreed to
There is one optional tick box, beside the application and enquiry forms, and it says exactly this:
Email me programme updates and practical resources from The Living Craft. I can unsubscribe at any time.
- It starts unticked and nothing depends on it. It is asked separately from the application, and refusing it changes nothing about how the application is treated.
- The words above are the words that were recorded. Your record points at this exact version of the sentence. If it is ever reworded that becomes a new version, and your record keeps pointing at the one you actually saw — so “what did I agree to” has an answer that cannot be quietly rewritten.
- Withdrawing is a new entry, not an edit. Changing your mind adds a record that permission was withdrawn, and when. It does not overwrite the record that it was given. Both survive on purpose: an edit would destroy the evidence that permission ever existed, which is exactly the evidence you would want if you later asked why you used to receive something.
Right now
Two routes, and both are read by a person
One line is enough. “Please stop sending me programme updates” is a complete request, and it does not need a reason. You do not need to quote a reference, though it makes the record easier to find if you have one to hand.
Stopping messages is not deletion. Withdrawing permission stops what would be sent; it does not remove your application or enquiry, which is kept so that a conversation you started can be answered. If you want the record itself removed, ask for that instead — it is a different request, and how your details are handled describes what it does and the one thing it cannot reach.
Why there is no form here
A form that posts nowhere is worse than none
The obvious version of this page is a tick box and a save button. Until sending is switched on there is nothing behind that button, so it would take a preference, show a confirmation, and drop it. Telling somebody their request has been handled when it has not is worse than not offering — and the request being discarded is the one a person is most entitled to have honoured.
When email is switched on, this page changes shape. Every message will carry a signed one-click link that lands here: no login, no form to fill in, your address never shown on the page, and anything already queued cancelled at the same moment. A link that has expired or been tampered with will show a plain confirmation and a way to contact a person, rather than an error that reveals whether an address is on file.
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