Privacy
Short version: no cookies, no banner, no identifiers. This site cannot tell who you are or whether you have been here before.
What is collected
Almost nothing, and no cookies at all.
This site uses cookieless analytics. That means a small script counts page views and records which pages get read, which country a visit came from, and which site referred it. It does not set cookies, does not store anything on your device, does not assign you an identifier, and cannot recognise you if you come back tomorrow.
There is no cookie banner on this site because there is nothing to consent to. Under article 11.7a of the Dutch Telecommunications Act, consent is required for storing or reading information on your device. This site does neither.
What this site does not do
- No cookies. Not analytics cookies, not functional cookies, not any.
- No advertising, no advertising networks, no advertising identifiers.
- No profiling, no retargeting, no tracking you across other websites.
- No selling or sharing of data with anyone.
- No accounts, no logins, no comment system.
- No newsletter unless you type your address in yourself.
The site is a set of static files. It has no database and no server that could store anything about you even if it wanted to.
When you send something
If you fill in the contact form or the newsletter box, that information goes to me. The form is handled by Netlify, which hosts this site. Your message is not added to any list unless you asked for the newsletter, and it is not shared with anyone.
Links to other sites
The Library links out to sacred-texts.com, Project Gutenberg and the University of Oxford's ETCSL. The Research pages link to journals and repositories. Photographs load from Wikimedia Commons. Once you click through, or once an image loads, that service sees the request and its own privacy terms apply, not these.
Your rights
Since no identifiers are stored, there is effectively nothing here to access, correct or erase. If you have sent a message through the contact form and want it deleted, ask and it will be. Under the GDPR you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority; in the Netherlands that is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.
Contact
Questions about any of this, or about a correction to the archive itself: use the contact form.
Last updated September 2026. If what this site collects ever changes, this page changes with it and the date above moves.