Privacy
What we collect, which is nothing
This is short because the site is simple. There is no account to make, no form to fill in, and nothing that follows you.
The whole of it, in four lines
- We set no cookies. Not one, of any kind.
- We run no analytics. We do not know who visits or how many.
- There are no accounts, forms, comments or newsletters. There is nothing to give us.
- We show no adverts and have no advertising partners.
What your browser does load
Pictures, and nothing else. Every host this site loads an image from, in full:
- arstechnica.net
- engadget.com
- futurecdn.net
- wired.com
- ytimg.com
That list is read off the site itself every time this page is built, not typed here, so it cannot fall behind the sources. Video thumbnails come from YouTube's image host; the rest are publishers' own image hosts, for the small number of articles whose feed offers a picture.
Loading any image from any server tells that server your IP address and browser details. That is true of every image on the web and is not something we can do on your behalf, which is why the hosts are named here rather than glossed.
That is the complete list. No fonts, no tag managers, no pixels, no embedded video players, no social widgets, and exactly one script — our own.
The one script, named. _shared/constellation.js draws the
drifting field of stars behind this page. It is served from this site, it is the same
engine the sister sites use, and it does nothing but draw: no network request, no
storage, no cookie, no identifier, nothing reported anywhere. Until 20 September 2026
this site ran no script at all and said so here; that was a stronger claim and it was
given up deliberately, for a background. Saying which is more honest than quietly
softening the sentence.
Block those hosts and the site still works: you will see cards without pictures. Disable scripting and it still works: you will see the page without the moving starfield. Neither is a degraded version of the reading.
When you leave
Every story and every video on this site is a link to somewhere else. When you follow one, you are on that site and their privacy policy governs what happens next. Following a link to YouTube puts you under Google's privacy policy. We have no involvement in, and no visibility of, anything that happens after you click.
Every outbound link carries rel="noopener", which stops the destination
from gaining control of this tab. Links from stories we have written about carry
nothing more, because we vouch for them; links in the automatically selected index
also carry nofollow, because we have not. The
publishers page says why.
What we hold
| Thing | Where it lives | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Headlines, links and dates from publishers' public feeds | A file on our own machine | Refreshed constantly, pruned at 30 days |
| Video titles, dates and thumbnail URLs from public YouTube channel feeds | The same file | The same |
| Anything about you | Nowhere. We do not have any. | Not applicable |
Our web host will keep ordinary server logs, as every web host does. We do not read them and we build nothing from them.
Children
This site is not aimed at children and collects nothing from anybody, so it collects nothing from children either.
Your rights, and why there is little to exercise
Under the UK GDPR, the EU GDPR and laws like the CCPA you have rights to access, correct, delete and port your personal data. We hold no personal data about visitors, so in practice there is nothing for us to hand over or erase. You are welcome to ask and we will confirm the same thing in writing.
We do not sell or share personal information, because we do not have any.
If this changes
If this site ever adds advertising, analytics, accounts or an embedded player, this page changes first and says so, with the date. A policy that describes a site other than the one you are reading is worse than no policy at all.
How to check we are telling the truth
Open your browser's developer tools, go to the Network tab and
reload this page. You should see requests to this site and to ytimg.com, and
nothing else. Check the Application tab for cookies: there should be none. We would
rather you verified this than believed it.
Contact
Questions about this policy: theoriesofanything@gmail.com.