Privacy

This page describes The Human Storyline as it is offered today: a free, public website with no advertising, no user accounts, and no paid features.

What this site does not do

• It does not show ads, and it does not load advertising or ad-tracking scripts.
• It does not offer accounts, sign-in, or a mailing list, so it does not collect a name, email address, or password from you.
• It does not set cookies or run analytics (such as a page-view tracker) of its own.
• It does not process payments.

What is logged when you visit

The site is hosted on Netlify. Like most hosts, Netlify may keep standard server or access logs (for example IP address, date and time, the pages or files requested, referrer, and browser user agent) in order to deliver the site, keep it secure, and diagnose problems. Those logs are controlled by the host, not stored in a database we run. See Netlify’s privacy policy for how they handle that data.

Links to other sites

Items in the timeline link out to sources such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other reference sites. Those sites have their own privacy practices, which we do not control.

Changes

If advertising, accounts, analytics, or other data collection is added later, this policy will be updated to describe it before that happens. This description is current as of 12 November 2026.