Privacy

Covert Council sets no cookies and loads no third-party scripts, fonts, images or trackers; every file, including the photographs and the map, is served from this site. Links to government archives, Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons take you to those sites, which have their own policies.

Your light or dark setting is kept in your own browser's local storage and never sent anywhere. Searching and filtering happen in your browser.

If this ever changes, for example if advertising or affiliate links are added, this page will say so before it happens.

Server logs

Like almost every website, the server keeps a log of requests: the time, the page requested, the referring page, the browser's user-agent string, and a shortened network address (the last part of the IP address is removed before anything is written, so the log cannot point to one connection). The log is used only to count visits and to stop abuse, is never shared or sold, and is deleted after 30 days. The legal basis under the GDPR is legitimate interest in running and securing the site.

The hosting proxy in front of this site (measured 2026-10-26): successful requests are not logged there. Requests that fail at the proxy are recorded with the visitor's IP address and browser user-agent, with cookies and authorization headers redacted, and are currently kept until the proxy is restarted. A retention limit for those records is under review.