▸ Updated 1 October 2026
Privacy
This is Photo Gallery’s photo site. It counts how many people look at the galleries, and that’s about all. There are no ads, no tracking cookies and no outside analytics services.
What’s counted
- Pages you open: the home page, a gallery, this page.
- Photos you look at in the viewer for at least a second.
- Photos and ZIP files you download.
- Whether you’re on a phone, tablet or computer, and the name of the site that sent you here (for example, instagram.com). Only the site’s name is kept, not the full address.
To count people rather than clicks, each visitor gets a code for the day. The code is made from your internet address, your browser’s name and a random key that changes every day. The day’s key is deleted when the day ends, so nobody, including us, can work out who a code belonged to or link your visits on different days. Your internet address isn’t stored with any of this. Looking at the same page or photo again within 30 minutes counts once.
If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, nothing about your visit is counted.
These counts are kept for 2 years and then deleted. Only the photographer sees them.
Cookies
The site sets a cookie only when you do something that needs one, and never to track you:
| Cookie | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
theme | Remembers the light or dark look, if you change it | 1 year |
ph_ev… | Keeps a password gallery open after you enter its password | 30 days |
ph_session | Keeps the photographer signed in. Visitors never get it | Up to 7 days |
Cloudflare, which delivers the site (see below), may set its own cookies, such as __cf_bm, to tell people from bots.
Favourites and comments
Favourites. When you heart a photo, your browser keeps a random code for that gallery (in its local storage, not a cookie) so it remembers your picks. The site stores which photos you hearted under that code. If you send the list, it also stores the name and note you type, so the photographer knows who it’s from. Lists stay until the photographer deletes them or the gallery is removed.
Comments, on galleries that take them, are stored with the name you give. Nothing appears until the photographer approves it, and then your name and comment are shown with the photo. To stop people posting automatically, the comment form may ask Cloudflare’s Turnstile check whether you’re a person; it runs only when you open the comment form. Ask the photographer to remove a comment at any time.
Security records
When someone enters a wrong gallery password, the internet address it came from is kept for 30 days. That stops anyone from guessing passwords over and over. Correct passwords are recorded the same way, so failures can be told apart.
Cloudflare
The site reaches you through Cloudflare, which handles the secure connection and filters out attacks. To do that, Cloudflare sees your internet address and browser details, as any network carrying your traffic does. Cloudflare’s own policy covers what it keeps.
Photos of you or your child
If you’re in a photo here, or your child is, and you’d like it taken down, just ask the photographer. Say which gallery and which frame (the number in the corner of the viewer). It doesn’t need a reason.
Password and private-link galleries aren’t listed on the site and are hidden from search engines. Location data is removed from every download. Downloads carry the photographer’s name and copyright notice.
Who else sees this
No one. Nothing is sold, shared or used for advertising. The counts stay on the photographer’s own server, along with the photos.
Questions
Contact the photographer. The counts can’t be traced back to you, so there’s nothing in them to show you or delete. Favourite lists, comments and anything you’ve sent the photographer can be.