Privacy policy
Version 2026-10-02
What CivCodex collects, why, and what it never does with it.
What we store
For an account: your email, a password hash, an optional display name, and the terms version you accepted. For features: the shelves, bookmarks, follows and comments you create, keyed by your account id.
Family trees
If you build a family tree we store what you enter about your relatives: names, dates and places of birth and death, relationships, life events, sources and notes. This can include living people. Only the tree's owner and the people they invite can see it. If the owner shares a tree, people outside it see deceased people only: living people's names, dates and photos are never shown, and shared trees are never indexed by search engines. By entering information about others you confirm you have the right to do so.
Your birth date and reminders
Your birth date is optional. We use it only to show which days clash with your zodiac sign and to compute your reminders. Reminders and the private calendar link are visible only to you. Anyone you give the calendar link to can read your reminders, so treat it like a password. Creating a new link turns the old one off.
Calendars, almanac and On this day
Converting dates, reading the almanac and browsing On this day need no account and store nothing about you.
What we do not do
We do not sell personal data, run advertising trackers, or profile readers. Anonymous reading needs no account and sets no tracking cookies.
Cookies
Two cookies keep you signed in (an access token and a refresh token). They are essential and expire after 30 days.
Public display
Public shelves and comments show your display name. Login identities such as email addresses are never shown; where no display name exists they are masked.
Deletion
You can delete shelves and comments yourself, and request account deletion, which removes your personal data from the platform.
Contact
Privacy questions: see the About page for contact details.