Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 20, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains what information this Gallery collects, why it is used, and how visitor privacy is protected.
Information the Gallery collects
The Gallery uses functional cookies and session data to operate features such as content preferences, adult-content confirmation, security protections, likes, ratings, and other site functionality.
When you like or rate artwork, the Gallery may associate that interaction with a randomly generated browser-session identifier. This helps prevent duplicate interactions without requiring an account.
If you submit a comment, the Gallery stores the name you provide, the comment text, the associated artwork, and the time of submission.
Cookies and local preferences
The Gallery uses cookies necessary for site functionality and preferences, including session information, Gallery sorting preferences, content-rating preferences, and security protections.
The Gallery does not currently use advertising cookies or a separate third-party advertising tracker.
Analytics
The Gallery uses privacy-conscious first-party analytics to understand general site activity, such as page views, approximate daily visitors, popular artwork, referring domains, and obvious automated or bot traffic.
For these analytics, the Gallery does not intentionally store raw IP addresses, full User-Agent strings, or full referring URLs. Instead, a coarse network range and broad browser family are combined with the UTC date and a private server-side key to create a one-way daily identifier. The identifier changes with the date and is intended to provide an approximate daily visitor count rather than identify a person or track someone across days.
Referrer information is reduced to the referring host or domain before storage. Obvious automated traffic may be classified as bot traffic. The Gallery honors browser requests using DNT: 1 or Sec-GPC: 1 by not recording first-party page-view analytics for those requests. Logged-in Gallery administrator activity is also excluded.
Traffic and security information may also be available through Cloudflare, which provides network, security, delivery, and traffic-measurement services for the Gallery.
Security and abuse prevention
The Gallery uses technical safeguards such as CSRF protection, rate limiting, authentication controls, and security logging to protect the site from abuse and unauthorized access.
The Gallery application may create one-way identifiers from connection information for security and rate-limiting purposes. Raw IP addresses are not intentionally stored in the Gallery database for those rate-limiting records.
Cloudflare
The Gallery uses Cloudflare for services including network delivery, security, HTTPS, and traffic protection. Requests to the site pass through Cloudflare, which may process information such as IP addresses, request metadata, traffic-routing information, and security signals according to Cloudflare's own policies.
How information is used
Information collected by the Gallery is used to operate site features, remember preferences, display visitor interactions, prevent abuse, maintain security, and understand the general operation of the site.
Sharing and selling information
The Gallery does not sell visitor personal information. Information may be processed by service providers, such as Cloudflare, when necessary to operate, secure, and deliver the site.
Data retention
Preference cookies may remain on a device for an extended period so the Gallery can remember selected settings. Likes, ratings, and comments may remain in the Gallery database until they are removed. Short-lived security records may be retained as needed to detect and prevent abuse.
Raw first-party analytics events are retained for up to 14 UTC dates. Older events are summarized into anonymous daily aggregate statistics, which are retained for up to 90 UTC dates. The aggregate statistics do not contain the daily visitor identifier. Backup copies may temporarily retain older data until those backups expire under the Gallery's backup retention process.
Your choices
You can clear cookies or site data through your browser. Doing so may reset Gallery preferences, adult-content confirmation, and anonymous interaction identifiers.
Depending on where you live, applicable privacy law may provide additional rights regarding personal information.
Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated when the Gallery adds or changes features that affect privacy. The date at the top of this page will show when the policy was most recently updated.