Privacy

This policy covers oldsymbols.com and whatdoesthissymbolmean.com, which are run together by Rorz Network LLC and share one policy. It explains what happens to information when you use either site.

Rorz Network LLC decides what information the sites collect and how it is used, so it is the controller of that information. Questions go to privacy@oldsymbols.com, or by post to:

The short version: visitors have no accounts, get no cookies and meet no advertising trackers. We count visits without identifying you. If you report a problem, we receive the message you write.

What we collect

Visit statistics

We use Fathom Analytics to count page views, which pages are read, which sites send visitors, and the general type of device and country. Fathom doesn’t use cookies and doesn’t store your IP address or anything else that identifies you, so these statistics can’t be traced back to a person. See Fathom’s privacy policy.

Search

What you type into search is used to find matching symbols. Search words are part of the page address, so they can appear in the page-view statistics above and in our hosting provider’s logs. We don’t link them to you.

“Report a problem”

If you use the form on a symbol page, we receive your message and the address of the page. We don’t ask for your name or email, so please don’t include personal details. Reports are stored as issues in a private GitHub repository that only the editors can see, and we keep them until the problem is dealt with, or longer as a record of changes to the page. To stop the same person sending many reports, your network address is held in the server’s memory for up to an hour; it isn’t stored or included in the report.

Server logs

Like any website, our hosting provider receives technical details with each request, such as your IP address, browser type and the page requested. It keeps these for a limited period for security and to fix faults. We don’t use them to identify visitors.

Cookies

Neither site sets cookies for visitors, and fonts are served from our own servers rather than from a third party. The only cookie is the sign-in cookie for the few editors who maintain the sites, set when they sign in to the editing tools.

Recently viewed

Symbol pages show a short list of the pages you opened last. That list is kept in your own browser’s storage, on your device, and is never sent to us or anyone else. Each site keeps its own. The “Clear” button beside the list deletes it, and so does clearing this site’s data in your browser.

Quiz scores

The quizzes remember your best score on each one in your own browser’s storage. Scores are never sent to us, and clearing this site’s data in your browser deletes them.

Advertising

The sites don’t show ads yet. Before they do, this policy will be updated to say which ad provider is used, what it collects, and how to choose what you allow.

Affiliate links

Some pages on whatdoesthissymbolmean.com link to a search on Amazon for a kind of product, such as a tire pressure gauge. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases made after following one of those links. They are ordinary links: we don’t load anything from Amazon on our pages and we don’t set a cookie. If you follow one, you are on Amazon’s site, and Amazon’s privacy notice applies, including the cookies Amazon uses to credit the referral. We count clicks on these links, without identifying you, in the visit statistics above.

Photo search

When you search by photo, your browser crops and shrinks the photo and sends only that crop to our server. The server turns it into a list of numbers describing its shapes, compares those with the symbols we cover, and sends back the matches. The photo is used only for that match: it is held in memory while the search runs and then discarded. It is not saved to disk or to our database, not logged, not shown to anyone, and not used to train anything. As with problem reports, your network address is used in memory to limit how many searches one person can make in a short time, and is not kept.

If you answer “Is it …?” under the results, we record your answer with the symbol we suggested and how close the match was, to check how well photo search works. That record contains nothing about your photo or about you.

Who else handles information

We use a few service providers, each only to run the sites:

• Railway, which hosts the sites and their database.
• Fathom Analytics, for the visit statistics above.
• GitHub, where problem reports are kept.
• Amazon, only once you follow one of its affiliate links (see Affiliate links).

We don’t sell information about visitors, or share it with anyone else, except where the law requires it.

Children

The sites are for a general audience and don’t knowingly collect information from children.

Your choices and rights

Because we don’t identify visitors, there is usually nothing held about you. If you sent a report and want it removed, or you have any question about your information, email privacy@oldsymbols.com. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to see, correct or delete information about you, and to complain to your data protection authority.

Changes

When what we collect changes, this page changes first. Last updated November 4, 2026.