Privacy & contact

What stays on your device

The interactive map uses your browser’s local storage to remember your map position, zoom, selected topic or connection, and link-display preference. It also remembers your recent reading trail (up to 100 visits), saved topics, journey progress and the topic to continue from.

These features do not require an account. The site’s code does not upload the saved trail or bookmark list to a server, and they are not synchronised between browsers or devices. Your browser controls how long this information remains available.

To remove recent visits, open My trail and choose Clear visited history. This leaves saved topics and journey progress in place. To remove a bookmark, choose Saved in My trail, then Remove beside that topic. To remove all of the site’s saved information, clear the site data for awakeningarchive.com in your browser’s privacy settings.

Links you choose to share

The sharing controls copy a link containing the topics, journey, comparison or gallery filters you selected. Sharing a visited trail includes its reading order. Anyone you give that link to can see the included selection; the link does not include an account or email address.

Hosting and web requests

Vercel hosts and delivers this website. Visiting a page sends the hosting service the information needed to handle that web request. Vercel’s privacy notice describes processing traffic information such as IP addresses, approximate location derived from IP addresses and system configuration information.

Local browser storage is separate from this hosting information. For Vercel’s handling of data and privacy contacts, see the Vercel Privacy Notice ↗.

Visitor statistics

We use Vercel Web Analytics to understand how many people visit and which pages they read. The service provides aggregate statistics including page views, referring sites, approximate location, and browser and device types. Vercel describes its visitor identification as a hash derived from incoming requests, with visitor sessions discarded after 24 hours, without third-party cookies.

Our integration removes query parameters and fragments from tracked page URLs. It does not send your saved trail, bookmarks, search text, or individual map selections as analytics events. Opening topics within the interactive map does not count as visiting new pages; opening their separate article pages does.

Analytics does not load when your browser sends a Do Not Track preference or enables Global Privacy Control. It is also disabled on local and preview copies of the site. Vercel filters recognized bots, and this site skips browsers that identify themselves as automated. These filters reduce automated traffic but cannot guarantee every recorded visitor is a person. Read Vercel’s Web Analytics privacy explanation ↗ for details about the service.

You can exclude this browser from future visitor statistics. The choice is saved in local storage on this browser only; repeat it on each browser or device you want to exclude. Clearing site data removes the choice. If the preference cannot be read or saved, analytics stays off. This does not remove past statistics or the hosting requests described above.

Advertising

This site currently runs no advertising scripts. Its AdSense setup is limited to an ownership-verification meta tag and an ads.txt file. These are static information for Google’s verification process; they do not load an advertising script or display ads in your browser.

Before advertising is activated, this notice will be updated to explain the processing and privacy choices available. Google describes the verification methods in its AdSense connection guide ↗.

External sources

Topic notes link to books, documents, interviews and other websites. Following an external link takes you to that provider, whose own privacy practices apply. The archive’s explanatory illustrations are served with this site.

Contact

For privacy questions, corrections or questions about the archive, email info@awakeningarchive.com.

Messages to this address are forwarded by ImprovMX to the operator’s Gmail inbox. Your address, message and any attachments are handled by these services to deliver and receive the message, and are available to the site operator to read and respond to your enquiry. See the ImprovMX privacy policy ↗ and Google Privacy Policy ↗. Sending an email does not create a website account or subscribe you to a mailing list.