Privacy policy
What Epoch collects, what it does not, and who else can see anything when you read a page here.
Last updated 17 August 2026.
What this site collects
Epoch sets no cookies of its own. There is no account to create and no newsletter list. The pages are static files served from a content delivery network, and the only record of your visit we hold is the ordinary server log that network keeps — an IP address, a timestamp and the file requested — which we do not read and do not combine with anything else.
The typefaces and the charts are served from this domain rather than from a third party, so reading an article does not announce you to a font network or an image host. Advertising is the exception, and it is described below rather than buried in it.
Two pages ask more of you than the rest, and only when you use them. The tip form loads a challenge from Cloudflare to tell a person from a script; it stores what you write and nothing about who sent it — no address, no browser fingerprint. The search box sends what you type to this site's own index, and the query is not recorded.
Advertising
Epoch carries advertising served by Google AdSense. This section is the part of this policy that changed when the ads went in, and it is the one place where reading this site involves somebody other than us.
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You may opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info.
Where ads are served, the vendors serving them will be named here, with links to their own policies. Today that list is empty.
If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland
Personalised advertising and the cookies behind it require your consent under the GDPR and the UK GDPR. Before any advertising is enabled, this site will ask for that consent through a consent management platform, and will keep serving you either way — declining costs you nothing but the personalisation.
Video
Some articles embed video hosted by the company the article is about, because a demo reel is theirs to serve and too large to mirror. Those players do not load until you press play, and the host can see that request when you do. Every such video is captioned with whose it is.
Getting in touch
Corrections, questions about this policy and requests about your data all go to [email protected]. A correction request will always be answered, and if we got something wrong the article will say so.