Privacy at Werelibrary.com

What the library collects

Nothing. There are no accounts, no forms and no comment boxes, so there is nowhere on this site to enter personal information, and none is asked for.

Cookies and tracking

The library sets no cookies. It uses no analytics, no advertising networks, no tracking pixels and no social media buttons. No fonts, scripts or images are loaded from any other site, so reading a page here does not notify anyone else that you have done so.

What is stored in your browser

One thing only. If you use the "Night garden" or "Day garden" switch, your choice is saved in your browser's local storage so that the next page opens the same way. It is a single word, it stays on your own device, and it is never sent to the library or to anyone else. Clearing your browser's site data removes it.

Search

The search and the glossary filter run entirely inside your browser, against a list of pages that is downloaded with the site. What you type is not sent anywhere and is not recorded. After a search, your words appear at the end of the address in your own browser, after a # mark, so that you can bookmark the result. Browsers do not send that part of an address to any server, so your browser is the only place they go.

Server logs

Like every site, the library is delivered by a web server, and web servers ordinarily keep short-lived technical logs of requests, such as the time and the page asked for, in order to keep the service running and secure. The keepers do not use such logs to identify or follow individual readers.

Younger readers

The library is written to be suitable for thoughtful readers of any age. Since it collects nothing from anyone, it collects nothing from children. Younger readers are encouraged to read the advice on staying safe online in wellbeing and care.

Changes

If this page ever changes, the date beneath it will change too. The keepers intend that it will never need to say more than it says now.