Privacy

PoemWell is a static website. You can read it without an account. We do not ask you to register, and we do not run a comment system.

What the site does now

Pages are files. Opening them does not require you to send us a name or an address. This edition does not set advertising cookies. Your browser will still do ordinary technical things a browser does, such as requesting the page and remembering it in its own cache. Those are the browser’s, not an account with us.

The poem finder downloads a static search index for the selected language when you first search or filter. Matching and result pagination run in your browser; there is no remote search service. The finder does not save terms in local storage or use them to build an advertising profile.

Search terms, filters, and the result page are reflected in the address bar so that a search can be bookmarked, shared, or restored with the browser’s Back button. These URLs can remain in browser history. Opening or reloading a search URL sends it as part of an ordinary page request, and URLs may also appear in request metadata or hosting logs. Avoid putting private information into a search you intend to share.

This website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare processes connection and request information, which may include IP addresses, requested URLs, and browser details, to deliver and protect the service. Its Privacy Policy describes end-user data processing and retention. Retention depends on the data, the service purpose, and applicable obligations; we do not promise a fixed deletion period for Cloudflare’s operational data. We have not configured a separate request-log export for this site.

When an editorial email address is available on the contact page, messages sent there will include whatever you put in them, including your address. We use that information to read the note and, if a reply is called for, to reply. We do not add the address to a mailing list.

Visitor statistics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics on the public HTTPS website at poemwell.org to understand page views, visits, referring sites, popular pages, and loading performance. A script loads from static.cloudflareinsights.com and sends measurements to Cloudflare. Local development and Pages preview hostnames do not load this script.

According to Cloudflare’s description of its measurement script, the script does not use cookies or browser storage. Its measurements include the page URL, referring URL, and browser performance information. Cloudflare receives connection information when handling these requests; its analytics documentation describes discarding the source IP at the nearest data center. This is separate from the hosting and security processing described above.

We do not send custom search events or account identifiers. Changing a search filter within a page is not counted as another page navigation by our integration. Page addresses and referrers may still contain query information, so do not enter private information into the finder. Statistics can be incomplete when scripts are blocked or requests fail; they are not a register of identifiable readers.

What may change

The site may later carry advertising, for example through an ad network, and may use cookies or similar storage so that network can measure and select ads. If that happens, this page will be updated before those cookies are used, and the update will name the provider. Fonts on the site are served with the pages themselves, from the same host, so a font request is not a call to a separate font service.

Contact

See the contact page for the current editorial contact and how to request a correction or ask about information you have sent us.

Updated November 12, 2026