Last Updated: July 2026
1. Introduction
History Rewind ("we," "us," or "our") operates the website history-rewind.com (the "Site"). This Privacy Policy explains what limited data we process when you visit the Site, why we process it, and the rights you hold over that data. If you have any questions about this policy, you can reach us at contact@history-rewind.com.
2. What We Collect and Why
The Site is a static website with no accounts, logins, or newsletters, so you can read every page without giving us anything at all. The one place where you can choose to send us personal details is the contact form. We also process aggregate usage data through Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors find and move through the Site. We do not currently display advertising, but if we introduce it we would do so through Google AdSense to support the Site. Each of these is described in more detail below.
Analytics cookies and identifiers are set only if you accept them through the cookie banner. If you accept, Google sets the _ga and _ga_* cookies and processes your IP address (used by Google to approximate a coarse, city-level location; it is not stored by us), your device and browser type, the pages you view, and your interactions with them.
If you reject analytics or take no action, no analytics cookies are set. Under Google Consent Mode, Google may still receive cookieless pings that contain no cookie or other lasting identifier, although, as with any request to a web server, Google receives your IP address.
If you write to us through the contact form, we process the name, email address, and message you type into it. We ask for these so that we can understand what you have written and reply to you, and we use them for nothing else: no marketing, no mailing list, no profiling. Your message is passed to our email inbox by Web3Forms, a third-party form delivery service, and is not stored in a database on the Site. Using the form is entirely optional, and you can email us directly instead.
3. Advertising
The Site does not currently display advertisements. If we introduce advertising, we would use Google AdSense, provided by Google, and Google and its advertising partners would use cookies and similar identifiers — including the DoubleClick cookie — to serve ads based on your visits to this Site and to other sites across the internet. We will update this policy before that happens.
Such ads would be either personalized or non-personalized. Personalized ads draw on data about your prior activity to show advertising that Google considers more relevant to you. Non-personalized ads are based only on general context, such as the page you are currently viewing and your approximate location, and do not build an advertising profile from your browsing history.
For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, ad personalization depends on your consent. Under Google Consent Mode, the Site defaults ad storage and ad personalization to denied until you accept through the cookie banner, so any ads would remain limited and non-personalized unless and until you give consent.
You can control the advertising you see across the internet and opt out of personalized advertising through the following tools:
- Google Ads Settings: https://www.google.com/settings/ads
- Google's advertising technologies: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
- Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out: https://www.aboutads.info/choices
- Your Online Choices (EEA/UK): https://www.youronlinechoices.eu
4. Legal Basis for Processing
Where the General Data Protection Regulation applies, our legal basis for processing analytics and advertising data is your consent, under Article 6(1)(a). You give this consent through the cookie banner, and you may withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdrew it. See "Managing Your Choices" below.
For messages sent through the contact form, our legal basis is our legitimate interest in reading and answering correspondence addressed to us, under Article 6(1)(f). You decide whether to write to us, and you can ask us to delete your message at any time.
5. Who Processes Your Data and International Transfers
Google Analytics is provided by Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC, which act as our analytics processor. If we introduce advertising through Google AdSense, we would share data with Google so that Google and its advertising partners can serve and measure ads; for that ad-serving activity Google would act as an independent data controller. Data collected through these services may be transferred to and processed in the United States. Google relies on the Standard Contractual Clauses and its certification under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework as the safeguard for these transfers.
Messages sent through the contact form are passed to our inbox by Web3Forms, which acts as our processor for that delivery alone. Apart from Google and Web3Forms, we do not share your data with anyone, and we never sell it.
6. Data Retention
Analytics data associated with cookies and identifiers is retained by Google for the retention period we have configured, which is set to a maximum of 14 months. After that period, the data is deleted automatically.
Messages you send through the contact form stay in our email inbox for as long as we need them to deal with what you wrote about, and in any case no longer than two years, after which we delete them. You can ask us to delete a message sooner at any time.
7. Cookies and Local Storage
The Site uses a small number of first-party cookies and browser storage entries, listed below. No third-party advertising cookies are set.
- _ga and _ga_*: Google Analytics cookies used to distinguish visitors and measure sessions. Analytics category; set only after you accept.
- cookieConsent: stored in your browser's local storage to record the choice you made in the cookie banner. It holds a version number, the date and time you chose, and a separate yes or no for analytics and for advertising. The record expires six months after you chose, and then we ask you again. Strictly necessary.
- rewindArrival: a transient flag held in session storage that carries the rewind animation across a single page navigation and is cleared immediately afterwards. Strictly necessary.
- cookieBannerDismissed: a flag held in session storage, set only if you close the cookie banner with the Escape key, so that it is not shown again for the rest of your visit. It records no choice and grants no permission, and it is gone when you close the tab. Strictly necessary.
If we introduce advertising through Google AdSense, Google and its advertising partners would set third-party advertising cookies, including the DoubleClick cookie, to serve and measure ads and, where you consent, to personalize them. For EEA, UK, and Swiss visitors those cookies would be set only after you accept. We will update this list before that happens.
8. Managing Your Choices
When you first visit the Site, the cookie banner gives you three routes: accept everything, reject everything, or manage your preferences and decide on analytics and advertising separately. Accepting and rejecting are both a single click and equally easy. Nothing beyond the strictly necessary entries listed above is stored or read until you choose, and dismissing the banner without choosing is not consent, so it appears again on your next visit. A choice lasts six months, after which we ask you again. You can change or withdraw it at any time using the button below, which reopens the banner showing your current settings.
You can also remove any cookies and storage entries at any time by clearing site data through your browser settings.
9. Your Rights
If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you have the following rights over your personal data:
- Access to the data we hold about you.
- Rectification of data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Erasure of your data.
- Restriction of how we process your data.
- Portability of your data to another provider.
- Objection to our processing of your data.
- Withdrawal of consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, email us at contact@history-rewind.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority if you believe your data has been handled improperly.
10. California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, gives you specific rights. Through Google Analytics, and through Google AdSense if we introduce advertising, we may collect identifiers, such as the online identifiers stored in cookies, and internet or other electronic network activity, such as the pages you view and how you interact with them.
We do not sell your personal information for money, and we do not currently display advertising. If we introduce Google AdSense to display personalized advertising, that use would constitute "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising under the California Privacy Rights Act. You have the right to know what we collect, to request deletion of your data, and to opt out of that sharing. For EEA, UK, and Swiss visitors personalized ads would be off by default until you consent, and any visitor can opt out using the advertising controls listed in the "Advertising" section above. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. To make a request, contact us at contact@history-rewind.com.
11. Children
The Site is not directed to children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe a child has provided us with data, please contact us and we will delete it.
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review the policy periodically.
13. Contact
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, contact us at contact@history-rewind.com.