Last updated: 17 October 2026
In short
The museum is static files, read the way a page of a book is read. No server runs when you visit, no database, no AI model, and no code acts on your behalf anywhere else.
We ask you for no account, no email and no name. We set no cookies, load no third-party tracking code, show no advertising, and sell or share nothing, because we hold nothing about you.
What we do not collect
The museum processes no personal data about its visitors: no names, no email addresses, no stored IP addresses, no browsing logs, no device identifiers, no profiles. There are no forms that send your data to us, search runs inside your browser on a static index, and fonts, maps and images are served from the site itself, not from outside services.
What stays on your own device
A few preferences are kept in your browser's own storage (localStorage and sessionStorage) and are never sent anywhere: light or dark theme, the typeface, the reading depth, your place in the random walk, and, in the children's wing, the names a child invents in the games and the stars and scores they collect. You can clear them at any time from your browser settings, and the whole site works without them.
Counting visits
Visits are counted in the network analytics of Cloudflare, the network that delivers the pages. These analytics run at the network edge, with no cookies and no code in the page, and give the museum aggregate figures only: number of requests, countries, most-visited pages. Nothing that identifies a particular person reaches us.
Who delivers the files
The files are published on GitHub Pages and delivered through the Cloudflare network. Like every service on the internet, these two providers need your device's IP address to deliver a page to you, and they process it under their own policies. The museum does not receive or keep that data.
When you contact us
If you email us or open a report or a discussion on GitHub, we see what you choose to send and use it only to reply and to correct the content. What you write on GitHub is governed by GitHub's terms and privacy statement, and is public unless you choose otherwise.
People the museum writes about
The museum describes people from history and from the present through published public facts tied to their sources. About the living it records only documented public facts, and nobody's religion is inferred or attributed without a stated basis. If you find an error, or something that concerns you personally, tell us through the correction form or by email; corrections concerning living people come first.
Children
The same rules apply to the children's wing: no accounts, no data collection, no contact with other parties, no comments and no chat. The names a child invents in the games and the stars they collect stay on the device itself.
Links to other sites
The museum points to outside sources and references. When you follow them, those sites' policies apply, not ours.
Applicable law
The museum is operated from the province of Ontario, Canada, and is subject to Canadian federal law and the law of Ontario, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). Because the museum collects no personal information, it holds nothing about you to disclose, correct or delete; we nonetheless answer any question on the matter at our address.
Changes to this page
If anything changes in how the site works, this page is updated first, and the change is recorded in the public repository's history on GitHub, where anyone can review what changed and when.
Further reading
The technical detail is in the architecture document and in architectural decision 0002 (no AI and no compute at runtime), both in the public repository.