No ads. No tracking. No sign-up.
Most privacy policies are long because the site does a lot to you. This one is short because this site does almost nothing to you. Here is the whole of it, in plain English.
This site shows no ads, uses no advertising trackers, sets no tracking cookies, and does no cross-site tracking, profiling or fingerprinting. For basic visitor numbers it uses Cloudflare's privacy-first analytics, which is cookieless and counts visits rather than people (see below). We don't collect personal data for accounts, advertising or profiling — the only personal data involved is an email address, and only if you choose to give one for subject updates. Essential hosting and security services keep the site available and may process short-lived technical logs, as explained below.
Cookies
The site sets no cookies of its own — nothing that tracks you, and no cookie banner to click through. The only cookies that can occur are the strictly necessary ones an essential security or delivery service may set to keep the site available and block abuse; these don't track you across the web, and privacy rules don't require consent for them.
Cookies we may set: at most one — and only if bot protection is switched on at our hosting layer (Cloudflare). It is a strictly-necessary cookie named __cf_bm, used purely to tell real visitors from automated bots. It is generated separately for this site (so it can't follow you anywhere else), is encrypted, and expires after about 30 minutes of inactivity. It does no advertising and no analytics, which is why it is exempt from cookie-consent rules.
Analytics
We use Cloudflare's privacy-first Web Analytics to see basic, aggregate numbers — roughly how many pages are viewed and visited. It is about the least invasive analytics there is: it sets no cookies and uses no other browser storage, it does not fingerprint you by IP address, device or browser, and it does not follow you from site to site or build any profile of you. It counts visits, not people. There is no Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no heat-mapping, and no advertising or cross-site tracking of any kind. The fonts are served from this site itself, so your browser never calls out to Google Fonts or any other font host, either.
Third-party requests
A standard web page often quietly loads code and assets from dozens of other companies, each of which can log your visit. This one doesn't. Everything the site needs — its styles, its fonts, its small amount of JavaScript — is served from the ModernEncyclopedia's own domain. Opening a page here does not, by itself, contact anyone else.
What your browser stores
Exactly one thing, and only if you use the theme switch: your choice of light or dark mode, saved locally in your own browser so the site remembers it as you move between pages. It is not a cookie, it is never sent to us or anyone else, and no one but you can read it. You can clear it any time by clearing this site's data in your browser. That's it — no other information is stored.
Data we collect
Almost none, and nothing for accounts, analytics, advertising or profiling. There are no accounts and no sign-up to use anything on the site, and the prompts you generate are assembled in your own browser and never sent to us. The single exception is entirely optional: if you decide to join the email list, you give us your email address, and nothing else.
The optional email list
If — and only if — you enter your email to hear about new subjects, we store that address with our email provider for the sole purpose of sending you those updates. We ask for nothing else, we never sell or share your address, and every email includes a one-click unsubscribe. Submitting the form contacts our email provider, whose own privacy terms then apply; opening or reading the site never does. Don't want any of this? Simply don't enter your email — everything on the site works exactly the same either way.
Where your prompts go
When you paste a generated prompt into an AI like Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, you're using that company's service, under their privacy terms — not ours. We have no visibility into those chats and no relationship with them. Please read the privacy policy of whichever AI you choose.
Hosting
Like any website, this site is served by a hosting provider, and web servers typically keep short-lived technical logs (for example, IP addresses in access logs) for security and reliability. We don't use those logs to track or profile visitors, and we don't combine them with anything else. If that changes, this page will say so.
No advertising — ever
There are no ads on this site, and there never will be. That's a deliberate, permanent commitment, not a launch phase — no banners, no sponsored placements, no ad networks, and therefore none of the tracking that ad technology usually drags in with it. ModernEncy is free forever, kept going by readers who choose to chip in rather than by advertisers. If you'd like to support it, there's a tip jar.
Changes to this policy
If we change anything material, we'll update the date below and describe what changed. Because the site is deliberately simple, we hope to keep changes rare.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Reach the team via maxfr.co.uk.
Last updated: 3 July 2026