Archive policy

Privacy & Audience Measurement

Everyday Lives is designed to avoid unnecessary collection of personal information and does not use visitor information to build advertising profiles.

Current audience measurement

Everyday Lives currently uses Google Analytics 4 to understand aggregate website use, including visits, returning use, entry pages and referral sources. This information is used to improve the archive, understand whether published work is reaching an audience and evaluate audience-development activity. Everyday Lives does not use this information to build advertising profiles or sell visitor information.

Google Analytics may process technical and usage information associated with a visit. The site requests IP anonymization in its analytics configuration. Everyday Lives does not intentionally send names, email addresses, free-form search terms, private archive identifiers, field notes or message content to analytics.

Search and interactive features

Search terms and map interactions are used to provide the requested website function. The archive does not intentionally use those interactions to create advertising or behavioural profiles.

Research lists

The Research List feature stores only the selected public archive catalogue identifiers in the visitor's browser local storage on that device. The list is not an account, is not synchronized to the archive, and is not transmitted to Everyday Lives merely because photographs are added or removed.

Institutional inquiry intake

The institutional inquiry page prepares a structured research, curatorial, educational, rights, documentary or archive inquiry in the visitor's browser. Information entered into that form is not submitted to an Everyday Lives database. The form can create a local text copy of the inquiry and can open the visitor's email application with the entered information and selected published archive identifiers included in a draft message.

The archive receives the inquiry information only if the visitor chooses to send the email. The correspondence reference generated by the page is for organizing the message and does not prove receipt, permission, licensing or access approval.

Contributions by email

Email contributions are currently available. If you choose to send a contribution, the archive receives the information you include in that message, such as your email address, name if provided, documentary information, references and any attachments you choose to send. That information is used to review the contribution, preserve relevant provenance and contact you for clarification where appropriate.

The website contribution form itself remains disabled. No information entered into that preview form is submitted through the website.

Everyday Lives is preparing an optional email newsletter for new encounters, photo essays and occasional editorial notes. The newsletter is not yet publicly active. When activated, subscription will use double opt-in: an email address will not be added to the active subscriber list until the confirmation link in the subscription email is used.

The planned newsletter provider is Brevo. Everyday Lives intends to collect only the subscriber email address for the basic subscription, does not sell subscriber information, and will provide an unsubscribe link in newsletter messages. The public subscription form will remain disabled until the provider configuration and unsubscribe workflow have been tested.

Future features

If a live web contribution form, commerce, additional audio or video measurement, or other audience services are activated later, this page will be updated to describe the services actually in use, the information they process, and any available privacy choices.