Privacy

Last reviewed: May 2026.

Westlake History is a community archive, not a marketing site. We treat reader privacy as a baseline obligation rather than a feature.

What we don't collect

• We do not run Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, or any other individual-tracking analytics.
• We do not sell or share reader data with third parties.
• We do not run third-party advertising on the archive.
• We do not require an account, email address, or login to read anything.

What we do collect

• Server logs. Vercel, our hosting provider, keeps standard request logs (IP address, user agent, requested URL) for a short period to help diagnose abuse and outages.
• Aggregate page views. If we add an analytics service, it will be a privacy-respecting one such as Plausible that does not set tracking cookies and does not create reader profiles.
• Contributions. When you contribute material through our contribute form, we keep what you send (the photograph, the document, the email you sent it from) for the purposes of catalouguing the donation and contacting you about it. We do not share that information with any third party.

Right to be forgotten

If a name or photograph appears in the archive that you would like removed, contact us through the contact link on the about page. We will work with you in good faith to redact, anonymize, or remove the material as appropriate.

Children

The archive is open to readers of any age. We do not collect any personal information from readers, so we do not knowingly collect information from children. School research projects are welcome.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page is updated. The full revision history of this page is preserved in the archive's public GitHub repository.