Live Historic · Privacy
The house record stays here.
The shelves, the scores, and the people in the house are kept on this device. Three things leave. A letter you ask us to answer. A question you ask Annie. A visit: the page, the clicks, and a replay of the screen, with what you type hidden.
- Who this covers
- Live Historic, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. This is the rule of the desk as of November 2, 2026. It will be changed on this page when the practice changes.
- The house record
- The name of the house, the people a parent types in, the shelves, the scores, the votes, the trail, and the password hash stay in this browser. They are not uploaded to build an advertising profile. We never ask for a streaming password, and we never sign in as you.
- Letters
- If you write as a family or a church, apply for a seat, or name a gift, we keep the name, the email, the town, the message, and, for a gift, the amount. We keep them so a person can write back. We do not sell them, rent them, or give them to a streamer, an advertiser, or a data broker.
- Annie
- A question you ask Annie, and the last few lines of that conversation, are sent to xAI only so an answer can be made. The words she speaks aloud are sent the same way, so a voice can be returned. We do not keep the question. We do not save it, log it, or add it to the house. Do not put a child’s full name, or anyone’s, into the question.
- Children
- A child does not get an account. A parent may type a first name or an age, and that note stays on the device. We do not ask a child for an email. Do not put a child’s full name on a device you share with people you do not trust.
- The desk door
- A person who signs in to keep the desk gets a cookie on that browser. It lasts twelve hours and only marks that the door is open. Households do not get this cookie.
- A visit
- When a page opens, we record the visit. That is the page, where it came from, the kind of device, the clicks, how far the page was scrolled, and a replay of what was on the screen. What you type is hidden, including a password. We do not send a house, a shelf, or a streaming login. If a name is already on the screen, the replay can show it. The record is kept by PostHog so the desk can be read in the morning. It is not sold, and it is not joined to a house.
- What we do not do
- We do not sell household data. We do not trade it for a feature. We do not hand a list of houses to a mail house. We do not follow you across other sites.
- How to end it
- Erase the house from Join, or clear this site’s data in the browser, and the names, shelves, and scores on this device are gone. A letter already sent stays until you ask us to delete it. Write us and name the email you used.
How long we keep it
There is no hidden clock. A record lasts as long as the line below says, and no longer than we need it for the reason we took it.
- On this device
- Until you erase the house, or clear this site’s data. We cannot reach in and delete it. Closing the tab does not.
- A letter
- Until you write and ask us to delete it, naming the email you used. We do not sell the letter while it waits, and we do not delete it on a timer. A shorter clock will be written here when one is kept.
- A question to Annie
- We do not file it on the house, and we do not keep a copy after the answer is sent. The service that answers, xAI, receives the question. We do not control how long that service keeps it.
- A visit
- We do not keep a copy on this desk. PostHog keeps the page, the clicks, and the replay. What was typed is hidden. It is not sold.
- The desk cookie
- Twelve hours, or sooner if the person shuts the door. It is not a record of a household.