Privacy

What stays on your device

Your tabs, history, bookmarks, the Archive items you heart and your settings are stored on your phone, or in your browser's local storage on the web. So are recent Archive results, kept so a page you opened before loads faster. None of this is sent to us.

Settings > Browsing data clears your history and those saved results. With private browsing on, pages you open stay out of history, Archive results stay in memory only, and on phones sites start with no cookies or saved data. Deleting the app removes everything it stored.

Who receives your requests

The Internet Archive. Saved pages, capture dates, search results, item details, cover pictures and media all come from the Internet Archive (web.archive.org and archive.org). It sees your IP address and what you load, under its own terms and privacy policy, which you can read on archive.org. We don't control what it records.

Our server, on the web build only. A web page can't read the Archive's capture index by itself, so app.nostalgiabrowser.com asks for capture dates through our server. When you type a live site there, our server also asks that site for its headers, to learn whether it can be shown inside the page. It reads nothing else from the site. The phone apps skip our server and talk to the Archive directly.

Live sites and search. Sites you open on the live web, and DuckDuckGo when you search with words, get your request straight from your phone or browser, under their own policies.

What our server keeps

Our server writes no logs of its own and has no database. While it runs, it holds a few things in memory: the Archive's answers, filed by the web address they are about (for an hour, or a week for past months), each site's frame answer (for an hour), and a request count for each IP address, so nobody can flood the Archive through us. All of it is gone when the server restarts.

Our host, Vercel, keeps its own request logs for a short time to run and protect the service. They hold the address requested, the time, the result and your IP address, under Vercel's privacy policy.

The Archive's players

Books, software, some concerts and some TV clips play in the Internet Archive's own players, which load from archive.org inside the app. Those players send usage reports to the Internet Archive's servers. The reports go to the Archive, and we receive nothing from them.

This website

nostalgiabrowser.com sets no cookies and runs no analytics. It remembers your light or dark choice, its visit counter and the guestbook note you type, all in your browser's local storage. Its fonts load from our own domain.

Children

Nostalgia Browser can open any website, old or live, so it isn't made for children. We don't collect personal information from anyone.

Changes

If the app starts handling your data differently, this page changes first and the date at the top moves.

Contact

Questions about privacy go to support@nostalgiabrowser.com.

Nostalgia Browser is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Internet Archive.