The house rules.

Privacy

Your data is your trail, and here it is treated like raw material: with rigour and without waste. This site only collects what you yourself type into the forms — your email and, if you leave them, your name and the intention you bring. Nothing is collected behind your back.

That data is kept in a protected database, accessible only to the author, and serves a single purpose: to answer you, and to let you know when a new piece or an open process lands, if you asked for that. It is not sold, traded, cross-referenced or used for profiling. There is no data business here — there is an atelier.

You can, at any time, ask to see, correct or erase what is held about you: write to contact@avelar.com and it is done. No ten-page forms, no elastic deadlines — you asked, it is erased.

Terms & intellectual property

AVELAR is a personal creative research laboratory. Everything that lives here — the pieces, the drawings, the photographs, the texts, the patterns and the method itself — is the work and intellectual property of André Avelar. Artificial intelligence is used as a working tool, under human direction; authorship does not change hands.

This site is not a shop. It sells nothing, promises no deliveries, hides no prices. The Archive documents a process — access is free, and it is a reading privilege, not a transaction.

Want to use, quote or publish something from here? Write first to contact@avelar.com. I like to say that being copied only pushes me to do better — but the courtesy of asking remains the house rule.

Cookies

We use no cookies. None. Zero.

To know how many people visit the site, we use Cloudflare Web Analytics. It counts visits, the pages seen and where you came from — Instagram, for example — with no cookies and nothing stored in your browser. It does not follow you from site to site or build a profile of you.

Apart from that, the only information that leaves your side is what you type into a form and choose to send.

This changed on 13 October 2026. I promised that if it ever changed, this page would change first — and tell you in plain words.