Privacy policy

Last updated November 11, 2026

Age in History (ageinhistory.com) is run by Fast Movers, LLC. This policy explains what information is involved when you use the site or donate.

The short version

• No accounts and no ads.
• Your settings and your birthday (if you enter one) stay in your own browser. If you follow a link from one of our sister sites to another, your birthday and display settings travel with the link so you only enter them once; they are carried in the part of the address after the “#”, which is never sent to any server.
• Photos and covers load in your browser straight from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
• If you donate, Ko-fi and Stripe handle the payment, and Ko-fi shares your donation details with us.

Using the site

The site is hosted by Cloudflare. Like any website, Cloudflare receives technical information such as your IP address, browser type and the pages requested, in order to deliver the site and protect it from abuse. We do not use this information to identify you. Cloudflare may set a strictly necessary security cookie when it needs to check for automated traffic.

Saved in your browser

Some things are saved only in your own browser’s local storage, so they persist between visits. They are never sent to us:

• Display settings, such as the theme, text size, which sections are shown.
• Your birthday, if you enter it to see how old you were at a milestone. You can remove it at any time, or turn the feature off in Settings.
• People you opened recently, if “Recently viewed” is on.
• When you last saw the support card.

Clearing your browser’s site data removes all of these.

Information sources your browser contacts

Photos on the pages load in your browser directly from the service below, That service receives your IP address and what was requested, under its own privacy policy:

• Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, run by the Wikimedia Foundation

The people, events, ages and lists on the site are built ahead of time from public Wikidata data and contain no information about you.

Donations

Donations are made through Ko-fi and processed by Stripe. They collect your payment details; we never see your card number. Ko-fi shares with us your name, email address, the amount, the date and any message you add. We use this only to process and acknowledge your donation, to handle any questions about it, and to keep the business and tax records the law requires. We do not sell it or use it for advertising, and we will email you only about your donation unless you ask us to.

How long we keep it

We keep donation records for as long as tax and accounting rules require, usually up to seven years, and then delete them.

Your choices and rights

You can ask us what donation information we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it, unless we must keep it by law. Depending on where you live (for example, in the European Union, the United Kingdom or California), you may have further rights under local law. We do not sell or share personal information for advertising. To make a request, email support@howoldtheywere.com.

Children

The site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top. If we ever add advertising or accounts, we will update this policy first.

Contact

Fast Movers, LLC, support@howoldtheywere.com.