For parents, teachers, lawyers, and the extra-curious

Privacy & Promises

Last updated: May 2026

This page tells you exactly what happens, and what doesn't happen, when you visit Aura Looks Up. It is written for two readers: a parent or teacher who wants a clear answer in thirty seconds, and a lawyer, regulator, or expert who wants the complete picture. Both audiences should leave reassured.

The short version

You do not have to give us anything to read this site. When you simply browse, we collect nothing about you. Not what you read. Not where you came from. Not how long you stay. We do not place cookies. We do not run analytics. We do not profile you.

The only way any information ever passes from you to us is if you choose to use the contact form. If you do, you tell us four things on purpose: your name, your city, your country, and a message. We never ask for your email address. That is the complete scope of what we could ever know about you, and you decide whether to share any of it.

What happens when you visit

When you load any page on Aura Looks Up, you see pictures, words, and animations. Nothing runs in the background that gathers information about you, your device, or your behavior. Specifically:

• We do not place cookies on your device.
• We do not ask you to log in, sign up, or create an account. There is no account system.
• We do not run analytics that profile you, follow you across pages, or report your behavior to anyone.
• We do not show advertising of any kind.
• We do not embed buttons, widgets, or pixels that report back to social-media companies.
• We do not sell, rent, license, or share information for advertising or marketing.
• We do not maintain a mailing list. We will never send you a newsletter, because we cannot.
• We do not record your IP address, your browser, your operating system, your country, your screen size, or what you click.

No page on this site loads any third-party tracker, ad pixel, social-media widget, or analytics provider. Two pieces of our own infrastructure run alongside the site:

• A small visit counter on the home page (described under "The visit counter in the footer" below).
• The contact form, only when you choose to submit it (described under "The contact form" below).

Both are tiny Cloudflare Workers we wrote ourselves. They are not third parties; they are us. Their source is in our public-facing project repository so anyone can read exactly what they do.

Children

Aura Looks Up is built to be a safe, welcoming place for children. It is designed to comply with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the U.K. Age-Appropriate Design Code, and the European General Data Protection Regulation as applied to children (GDPR-K). Because we collect no information from any visitor, regardless of age, there is nothing that needs to be handled differently for younger visitors. There are no chat rooms, no message boards, no requests for any personal detail, and no advertising.

The contact form

There is one optional, deliberate way you can share information with us: the contact form. If you choose to use it, you tell us four things: your name, your city, your country, and a message.

We have deliberately chosen not to ask for your email address or any other identifier. If you would prefer to remain anonymous, you may use a nickname; we will not verify it.

When you press Send, your message is delivered privately and directly to Robin (the writer and owner of this project) through a private notebook only he can open. We do not add you to any list (we have no lists). We do not share your message with anyone. Once we have replied, or once the message is no longer relevant, we delete it.

The two third-party services involved in the contact form

In order for a message you write on the contact form to actually reach Robin (rather than vanish into your browser), two well-known third parties are involved. They are loaded only on the contact page and only when you submit the form. They do not run on the home page, the chapter pages, the visit counter, the privacy page, or anywhere else.

• Google. Your submission is delivered to a private notebook (a Google Sheet) inside Robin's personal Google account. Only he can open it. Google's role is to store the rows of that notebook; Google does not read, market on, or otherwise use the contents. Google's own privacy practices are governed by their public policies.
• Cloudflare Turnstile. A privacy-respecting human check that loads on the contact page so that bots cannot flood the form. Turnstile does not place cookies on your device, does not track you across other sites, and does not profile you. It checks, only in the moment, that you are not an automated script.

Aside from these two, no other third party loads code or runs on any page on this site. Choosing not to use the contact form means none of them run for you at all.

Share buttons

Each strip page has a row of buttons for sharing the strip to X (Twitter), Facebook, Pinterest, WhatsApp, email, and a copy link button. On phones and recent desktop browsers, an additional Share… button opens the operating system's own share sheet so anything you have installed (Messages, Telegram, Notes, Notion, etc.) shows up as a target.

These are plain links. We do not embed any third-party scripts, tracking pixels, “Like” buttons, iframes, or social widgets on this site. The buttons do nothing on our end until you click one, at which point your browser simply navigates to that platform's page (e.g. the post-composer on X) and that platform's own privacy policy then applies.

The copy-link button uses the standard browser clipboard API to put the URL on your clipboard. It does not send anything anywhere. The OS share sheet (when available) is operated entirely by your device; we never see what you choose or where you send it.

How this site is delivered to you

Every website on the internet is delivered to your browser by some hosting provider. Ours is Cloudflare. When you visit auralooksup.com, Cloudflare's network serves the pages to you over HTTPS from a server near you. Cloudflare may keep brief, automatic operational logs (the kind every web host keeps to deliver pages and protect against abuse), governed by their own published privacy policy. We do not see, receive, store, analyze, or retain any of that information ourselves. Cloudflare's role is to serve the page; nothing about you is shared with us, and nothing about you is shared by us with anyone else.

We have no commercial or technical relationship with any analytics, tracking, profiling, or advertising company. None of them are loaded on this site, and none of them receive anything about your visit.

The visit counter in the footer

The footer shows two small numbers: "X reading right now" and "X total visits". To make those numbers honest (so a single visitor refreshing the page doesn't inflate them), your browser stores a small random identifier in its localStorage the first time you visit. The identifier is generated by your browser, not by us. It is unguessable, opaque, and not linked to anything personal. The only thing we ever do with it is hand it back to a Cloudflare worker so the worker can remember "I have already counted this visitor" and not count you twice when you come back.

That worker stores one piece of state: a list of those visitor identifiers and the last time each one was seen. It does not store your IP address, your browser, your operating system, your country, your screen size, what you clicked, or how long you stayed. The list is auto-pruned: anyone we have not seen in the last five minutes is dropped from the "reading right now" tally automatically.

You can verify this for yourself: the worker is open source in the project repo as counter-worker.js; the browser script that talks to it is scripts/counter.js. If you don't want even this much, you can disable JavaScript or block localStorage for this site, and the counter will silently fail; no other part of the site is affected.

Your rights

You have rights under privacy laws around the world, including the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act and California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA / CPRA), the Brazilian Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD), and similar regulations elsewhere. These rights generally include:

• The right to know what personal information is held about you.
• The right to have it corrected.
• The right to have it deleted.
• The right to receive a portable copy of it.
• The right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of the above.

Unless you have voluntarily sent us a message through the contact form, we hold no personal information about you, and there is nothing to access, correct, delete, or transfer. If you have sent us a message and you would like it returned to you, corrected, or deleted, ask through the contact form (or to hello@auralooksup.com) and we will respond within a reasonable time and without charge. If you would like written confirmation that we hold nothing about you, we are happy to provide it.

"Do Not Track" and other browser signals

Some browsers send a "Do Not Track" request or a Global Privacy Control signal. We do not respond to these signals because we do not track in the first place. There is nothing to switch off.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS so that what you see, and what you type into the contact form, cannot be observed in transit by anyone on your network.

If you have not used the contact form, we hold no data of yours and there is nothing that could be lost, leaked, or stolen. If you have sent us a message, it lives in a private notebook in Robin's personal Google account, accessible only by him and protected by Google's account security. We delete messages once they are no longer needed.

Changes to this page

If we ever change anything that affects your privacy (for instance, if we one day add a comments section, or accept newsletter signups, neither of which we have any plans to do), we will update the date at the top of this page and explain in plain language what changed. Any material change will be announced clearly at the top, and will not be applied retroactively to messages or visits that took place before the change.

Contact

For privacy questions specifically, or for any reason to reach us at all, please use the contact form.