Privacy policy
This policy explains what information is collected when you visit Amazing Facts and how it is used.
Information we collect
We do not ask you to create an account. We only collect your email address if you choose to give it to us, in one of these ways:
- Newsletter. If you sign up, we send a confirmation email first, and you are only added once you click the link in it. We use your address only to send our weekly newsletter. Every issue has a one-click unsubscribe link. Your address is stored on our own server, along with whether and when you confirmed or unsubscribed and which page you signed up on. Emails are delivered through Resend, which receives your address only to send each email and keeps delivery records for a limited time. To have your address deleted completely, contact us.
- Suggestions and messages. If you use our suggestion form or email us, we use your message and address only to read and reply to it, and we keep it only as long as needed for that.
We never sell or share your email address.
Like most websites, our web server keeps standard logs (such as IP address, browser type, pages requested and the time of the request) for security and to keep the site running. These logs are kept for a limited time and are not used to identify you.
Cookies and advertising
This site is supported by advertising served by Google. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info. To learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you will be asked for your consent before personalised advertising cookies are used, through a consent message provided by Google. You can change your choice at any time using the privacy settings link shown with that message.
New-story alerts
If you turn on new-story alerts, your browser gives us a push address run by your browser's maker (for example Google, Mozilla or Apple). We store only that address, so we can send an alert when a story is published. The alert carries no personal data. You can turn alerts off from the same button or in your browser settings, and we delete addresses that stop working.
Your reading history stays on your device
To show you where you left off, which stories you have already read, your "finds" collection and your best quiz scores, the site saves a small record in your browser's local storage. It never leaves your device and we cannot see it. You can clear it at any time from the Your finds page or by clearing your browser's site data.
Analytics
To understand which stories are read, we use Cloudflare Web Analytics. It does not use cookies or similar storage, does not track you across sites and does not build a profile of you. It records page views, the referring site and general information such as browser type and country. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
Embedded videos
Some stories include short films hosted on YouTube. The video is only loaded when you press play, and it is served from YouTube's privacy-enhanced domain (youtube-nocookie.com). Once you play a video, YouTube's own privacy policy applies.
Children
This site is meant for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal information about you. Because we hold very little, most requests can be handled quickly; contact us at [email protected].
Changes
We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top shows when it was last changed.