Privacy Policy

Timeline History sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and asks you for nothing. This page explains what little does happen.

Last updated: 26 July 2026.

What this site collects

Nothing. There is no account system, no contact form, no newsletter and no comments. The site never asks for your name, email address or any other personal detail, and there is nowhere for you to enter one.

Cookies and local storage

This site sets no cookies and writes nothing to your browser's local or session storage. Your filter selections and the year you are viewing live in the page's URL and in memory only, and are gone when you close the tab.

Analytics

There are none. No Google Analytics, no tracking pixels, no fingerprinting, no third-party measurement of any kind.

Third parties that do see something

Loading any web page reveals your IP address and browser details to whoever serves it. For this site that means:

• GitHub Pages, which hosts the site and keeps server logs.
• Cloudflare, which provides DNS and sits in front of the site.
• d3js.org and jsDelivr, content delivery networks the map libraries and country outlines are loaded from.

None of these are under our control, and each has its own privacy policy, linked above. We receive no data from any of them.

Links to other sites

Every event links out to Wikipedia or Wikidata. Once you follow such a link you are on the Wikimedia Foundation's site and its privacy policy applies, not this one.

Children

Since no personal data is collected from anyone, none is collected from children either.

Changes

If this site ever adds advertising, analytics or anything else that processes visitor data, this page will be updated to say so before that happens, and the date at the top will change.