Last updated: 22 October 2026.
This notice describes the current Topics on Earth website. It does not describe the historical website captured in the archive.
Contact and scope
Topics on Earth is responsible for the information it receives directly through enquiries about this publication. Contact us with questions about this notice or your personal information.
Email hello@topicsonearth.com for site support, corrections, copyright requests and privacy enquiries.
Website delivery and security
Cloudflare Pages hosts this website. When you visit, technical information such as your IP address, requested URL, browser or device information and request time is processed to deliver pages, maintain reliability and protect the service. Read Cloudflare’s privacy policy for information about its processing. We do not operate visitor accounts, a newsletter signup, public comments or a contact-form database.
Search and storage
Article search runs in your browser against this website’s article index. A query appears in the search page URL and can be present in browser history and hosting requests. We do not send queries to an external search or analytics service. The website’s own code does not set cookies or use local storage. Hosting infrastructure may use necessary security mechanisms.
Email enquiries
If you email us, we receive your address, message and any information or attachments you choose to include. We use this to reply, resolve a correction or rights concern, provide support and handle privacy requests. Email and hosting service providers may process information on our behalf to supply those services. Please send only information needed for the enquiry.
Purposes and legal grounds
Where data-protection law requires a legal basis, we rely on legitimate interests in operating and securing the publication and answering enquiries, balanced against your rights. We may process information to comply with legal obligations or establish, exercise or defend legal claims. Where consent is required for an optional feature, we will obtain it before using that feature, and you may withdraw it.
Advertising and analytics
No AdSense advertising script, analytics service, advertising pixel or social tracking widget currently runs on this edition. We publish an ads.txt record identifying our authorised Google seller account; that text file does not itself load ads, set cookies or send visitor data to Google. Before advertising or analytics is introduced, we will update this notice and provide the required choices and consent controls.
Sharing and international processing
We use service providers for website hosting, security and email delivery. Information may be processed in countries other than yours. Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, the relevant provider arrangements must meet those requirements. We do not sell information sent in enquiries. We may disclose information where required by law or reasonably necessary to address security incidents, protect rights or respond to a lawful request.
Retention and security
We retain enquiry information only for as long as reasonably necessary to answer the enquiry, resolve follow-up issues, maintain a record of material corrections or meet legal obligations. Information no longer needed is deleted or anonymised. Technical information handled by service providers follows their applicable retention arrangements. We use reasonable safeguards, but internet transmission and email cannot be guaranteed secure.
Your choices and rights
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, erase, restrict or transfer personal information, object to processing and withdraw consent where used. Contact us to make a request. We may ask for proportionate information to verify your identity. You may complain to the data-protection authority responsible for your location.
Children, external links and changes
This publication is intended for a general audience and does not knowingly request personal information from children. Let us know if a child has provided personal information in an enquiry. External links lead to websites with their own policies. We update this notice when our practices change and show the update date above.