This site is built to be read, not tracked. There are no accounts to create, no forms to fill out, and nothing to sign up for anywhere on it. Below is a plain, specific description of what does and does not happen with your data when you visit, current as of the revision date at the bottom of this page.
What This Site Does Not Collect
This site has no user accounts, no comment sections, no contact or newsletter forms, and no way for a visitor to submit anything to it. There are no cookies set for tracking, personalization, or advertising, and no analytics or measurement script of any kind runs on any page. No third-party advertising network, social-media widget, or embedded tracker of any kind is present anywhere on this site.
What Happens on the Server Side
Like virtually every website on the internet, the infrastructure that serves these pages keeps basic technical logs as a normal part of running a web server: things like the requesting IP address, browser type, and request timestamp. This is standard hosting-level behavior used only for security and operational purposes, such as detecting abuse or diagnosing an outage. The people who write and maintain this site's content do not access, analyze, or retain those logs for any purpose beyond that baseline hosting function, and never combine them with anything else to identify an individual visitor.
Links to Other Sites
The interactive map and directory listings on the Museums & Historical Societies page link out to Google Maps for directions to real-world locations. Clicking one of those links takes you to Google's own service, governed by Google's own privacy practices, not this site's. This site does not track which outbound links you click.
No Advertising, No Data Sales
Since no visitor data is collected beyond the baseline server logging described above, there is nothing here to sell, share, or monetize. No advertising network operates on this site, and no visitor information is ever sold or passed to a third party.
Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" setting that asks websites not to track a visitor's activity. This site does not respond to that signal any differently than it otherwise would, for the simple reason that it does not track visitor activity in the first place, with or without the signal being sent.
Children's Privacy
The content on this site is general-audience historical reference material, not directed at children specifically. The same policy of not collecting personal data applies regardless of a visitor's age.
Changes to This Policy
If anything described here ever changes — for example, if an analytics tool is added in the future — this page will be updated first, with a new revision date, before that change takes effect. Checking the date at the top of this page is the reliable way to know whether anything here has changed since you last read it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this site use cookies?
No. No cookies are set for tracking, advertising, or personalization purposes.
Does this site use analytics or tracking scripts?
No. No analytics, measurement, or tracking script of any kind runs on any page.
Does this site sell or share visitor data?
No. Beyond routine, security-oriented server logs kept by the hosting infrastructure (standard for any website), no visitor data is collected, so there is nothing to sell or share.
Are the outbound links to Google Maps tracked?
No. This site does not track which links a visitor clicks, including the Google Maps links on the Museums & Historical Societies page.
Does this site respond to Do Not Track signals?
There is nothing to change in response to that signal, since this site does not track visitor activity regardless of whether it is sent.
Is there a way to contact this site about a privacy question?
This is an anonymous editorial project without a public contact mechanism, but this page documents the complete answer to any privacy question — there is no additional practice happening behind the scenes beyond what is described here.