What we collect, and why

Threading America is a free digital exhibit presented by Anatar. You can read every page and download every study guide, PDF, and slide deck without an account, and we never ask for your name or email address.

We count visits with privacy-focused analytics that use no cookies and cannot identify you, and our host keeps standard server logs to deliver and protect the site. We do not run advertising, we do not track you across other websites, and we do not sell or share personal information.

We use Vercel Web Analytics to learn which chapters and guides are read, so we know what to improve. For each page view it records:

• The page you viewed and the page or site that linked you to it
• The date and time of the visit
• Your approximate location (country, region, and city), derived from your IP address
• Your browser, operating system, and type of device (desktop, tablet, or mobile)

It sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device. To avoid counting one visit twice, it compares a hash calculated from your request; that hash is discarded after 24 hours. Your IP address is not stored with these records, and we only ever see totals, such as how many people viewed a chapter this week.

The site is hosted by Vercel Inc. Like any web server, Vercel receives your IP address, browser details, and the address of each page or file you request in order to deliver it. Vercel keeps these logs for a limited period to operate the service and to protect it against abuse and attacks. We consult them only to fix errors and investigate security problems.

The public site sets no cookies. Before launch, reviewers who open a preview link receive one strictly necessary cookie, ta_preview, which lets them past the “opening soon” page. It holds no personal information, cannot be read by scripts, and expires after 30 days.

Fonts, archival images, and downloads are served from this site, so browsing it sends no requests to font services, image libraries, or social networks. Links to museums, archives, and other sources take you to their sites, where their own privacy policies apply.

Threading America is built for classrooms. Students need no accounts, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13. Teachers can assign any page or guide without sharing student information with us, and we do not receive education records.

Because we hold no names, email addresses, or profiles, there is usually nothing we can link to you. You can still ask us what we hold, or ask us to delete it, under laws such as the GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act. We rely on our legitimate interest in running and improving a public educational site to collect the statistics and logs described above.

Blocking scripts in your browser stops the visit statistics without affecting how the site works.

If what we collect changes, we will update this page and the date at the top before the change takes effect. Questions or requests go to privacy@anatar.com.