Privacy

This page describes what MythosPedia collects, what it does not, which other companies are involved when you use it, and how to have anything about you removed. It is written to be read rather than to be legally impressive.

What is collected when you simply read

No account is needed to read anything here, and none is offered. Ordinary reading produces no personal record on this side: the site measures aggregate analytics — page views, referring site, approximate country, device type, and how a page performed — through Google Analytics 4 and Vercel Web Analytics. Those measurements identify a page, not a person, and they exist so that it is possible to tell which articles are worth expanding. Reading a page also loads Google's display advertising, which is described separately below.

Information you choose to give

Two actions involve personal data, and both begin with you.

• Subscribing to the newsletter stores the email address you enter, for the purpose of sending that newsletter. Every issue carries an unsubscribe link; unsubscribing deletes the address rather than suppressing it.
• Emailing the site means your message and address sit in an email account until the exchange is finished. Correction correspondence is sometimes kept longer, because a page's editing history is worth being able to reconstruct — tell us if you would rather it were not, and it will be deleted.

Buying the printable companion involves a payment, and payments are handled entirely by Stripe: card details are entered on Stripe's own systems and are never received or stored here. What reaches this side is a record that an order was completed and the email address to deliver the file to.

Cookies and local storage

The site sets no advertising cookies of its own; the advertising cookies you may see are Google's, and the section below explains them. Google Analytics does set a cookie (Vercel Web Analytics does not). It holds a randomly generated identifier and persists between visits, so that one person returning three times is not counted as three readers; it is not tied to your name, and no account exists here to tie it to. Blocking cookies in your browser does not break anything here — the search, the family trees and every page work identically with cookies refused, because nothing on the site depends on tracking you.

Advertising

Display advertising on MythosPedia is served by Google AdSense, and it is part of how the site pays for itself. Google and its partners use cookies to choose and measure those ads, and depending on your ad settings the ads may be personalised from your visits to this site and to other websites. Readers in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom are asked by Google for consent before any personalised-advertising cookie is set, and the answer can be changed later.

What an article says is never influenced by advertising. No myth, deity or genealogy is retold to suit an advertiser, and nothing is shown to an advertiser before publication. Some pages that cite an ancient text or discuss a statue also link to a translation or a reproduction on Amazon as an affiliate; the affiliate disclosure explains how that works.

To see why a particular ad appeared, or to switch personalisation off, use Google My Ad Center. aboutads.info offers one opt-out from interest-based advertising across many companies, and Google sets out its use of advertising cookies at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

The third parties involved

• Vercel hosts the site, so its servers necessarily see the requests your browser makes, including your IP address, in the ordinary course of serving a page.
• Stripe processes payments, and is the data controller for the card details you give it.
• Brevo stores newsletter subscriptions and sends the emails.
• Google provides the analytics (Google Analytics 4) and the display advertising described above.
• Amazon runs the Associates programme behind the affiliate links, and sees a visit only if you follow one.

Each of those companies operates under its own privacy policy, which governs what it does with that data. No personal data is sold, rented or shared with anyone else, and there is no data-broker relationship of any kind behind this site.

Your rights, and how to use them

You can ask what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted, and it will be done — there is no retention interest here worth arguing with anyone about. Write to contact@mythospedia.com from the address in question, or tell us which address to look for. If you are in the UK, EU or a jurisdiction with comparable law, these are your statutory rights and this is simply how they are exercised here.

How long anything is kept

Newsletter addresses are held until you unsubscribe. Order records are kept for as long as tax and accounting rules require, which is a matter of years rather than a choice made here. Analytics are aggregate and are not tied back to an individual at any point, so there is nothing in them to delete on request. Ordinary email is kept while it is useful and then deleted.

Children

The material is suitable for school-age readers and a good deal of the traffic to a mythology site is homework. The site is nonetheless not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them; if you believe a child has subscribed to the newsletter, write and the address will be removed.

Changes to this page

If the site adds something that handles data differently — a comment system, an account, a different email provider — this page changes first, and the version on it is always the current one. Last revised 5 October 2026.