No cookies. No trackers. 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 website sets no cookies, runs no analytics, shows no ads, and loads no third-party trackers, scripts or fonts. The only personal data we ever collect is an email address — and only if you choose to give us one for subject updates. That's the whole story.
Cookies
We use none. There is no cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to.
Analytics and tracking
There is no Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no heat-mapping, no fingerprinting, and no third-party tracking of any kind. We don't measure you. 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 none at all unless you choose otherwise. 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