Tesro is not an anonymous project. This page sets out who publishes the site, how the editorial operation is organised, and how a reader or regulator can hold us to account. It is intended as a companion to our Regulation & Compliance page and our Editorial Standards.
The publishing entity
Tesro is published by a small editorial group registered in the United Kingdom. Correspondence should be addressed in the first instance to the editor at [email protected]. Postal correspondence may be sent to the address given on our Contact page.
Editorial operators
The day-to-day editorial operation of the site is the responsibility of a small team of writers and editors, whose backgrounds are described in more detail on the our editorial pages page. Each thematic page on Tesro is written by a member of that team and reviewed by at least one other editor before publication. Reviews follow the process described in our Editorial Standards.
Accountability structure
The editorial team reports to a single named editor, who is responsible for the accuracy, tone and lawful character of everything published on the site. The editor is contactable by email at the address above. Corrections and complaints follow our Corrections Policy.
Separation of editorial and commercial activity
Ours is a non-commercial editorial project. We do not sell products through the site. We do not run advertising. We do not accept sponsored content, gifts in kind, or affiliate placements. This is a deliberate choice: the material we cover has a long history of being commercialised in ways we consider unhelpful, and our contribution is to present it in a register that is untangled from that commercial pressure.
Independence of judgement
Because we do not have advertisers, sponsors or commercial partners, our editorial judgement is not shaped by their interests. When we recommend one translation over another, or describe one interpretation as more careful than another, we are speaking from editorial conviction rather than from commercial obligation. Where we are uncertain, we say so.
Third parties
The only third parties involved in the operation of the site are:
- the hosting provider, which serves the pages to readers;
- the domain registrar, which manages our address;
- where applicable, an analytics provider (see our Cookies Policy).
None of these third parties has any editorial input into the content of the site.
Ownership
The rights in the editorial content of the site are owned by the publishing entity described above. The text of the classical Kama Sutra itself is, of course, ancient and in the public domain; the specific translations we cite (chiefly Doniger and Kakar 2002, Alain Daniélou 1994, and the historical Burton and Arbuthnot 1883) belong to their respective publishers and are quoted only within the limits of ordinary editorial fair use.
Complaints and regulatory contact
Complaints about editorial content, whether from readers, subjects, or regulators, should be sent to [email protected]. Statutory notices should be marked as such. Our target acknowledgement time for such correspondence is seven working days. The full Regulation & Compliance page describes the wider framework within which we operate.
Related editorial pages
The our editorial pages page introduces the editorial team. The Editorial Standards page describes how we produce a page from first draft to publication. The Corrections Policy page describes how we handle mistakes when we make them. Our About page gives a broader account of the project as a whole.
The rest of Tesro
Ours is a small library of editorial pages, of which the main resource is the entrance. Every page on the site links back to it.
The library's front matter, introducing the project, sits on About.
Its methodological section, explaining how everything else was produced, lives on Editorial Standards, Corrections Policy and Regulation & Compliance.
Its back matter is the usual legal furniture: Privacy Policy, Cookies Policy and Terms of Use.
Editorial correspondence goes through Contact.