Privacy

Last updated 20 October 2026. The Class Album is run by one person; contact hello@theclassalbum.com.

If you only read pages

There are no accounts and no sign-in. We use Google Analytics to count visits. It sets cookies in your browser and records the pages you view, your approximate location, your device type and how you arrived. We use it to see which pages people find useful, and we do not combine it with anything that names you. Cloudflare, which hosts the site and the images, also keeps aggregate traffic statistics and processes your IP address and request details to deliver pages and block abuse (Cloudflare's privacy policy). You can block Google Analytics with a browser extension such as Google's opt-out add-on. Fonts are served from our own domain; your browser does not contact Google for them.

If you send us a report or answer a question

Two features let visitors send information. Neither needs an account.

"Something wrong on this page?" (report form)

• What you send: which page, the kind of problem, the correct version (optional), your note (up to 1,500 characters) and your email address (optional).
• Where it goes: into a database (Cloudflare D1) that only the site owner can read. Nothing you send appears on the site until a person has checked it against the original scan. Your email is never shown.
• What we use it for: checking the report, correcting or removing a page, and replying to you if you gave an address.
• How long we keep it: we keep a report for as long as it is useful to see whether a page has been reported before, and we delete an email address on request. A removal request is kept as long as needed to keep the page off the site.
• Please do not put other people's phone numbers, email addresses or medical details in the note. We will delete them.

"Help check the names" (review questions)

• What you send: short answers such as the name as printed, or yes/no/not sure to a question about a page.
• What we store with it: the answer and the time. An answer counts only when a second person independently gives the same answer, and we still check it before anything is edited.
• Cookie and local storage: after the human check we set a cookie named ca_s that lasts one hour and is used only to remember that you passed the check. Your browser also keeps a counter named ca_checked in local storage on your own device so the page can show how many you have checked. We do not read it.
• How long we keep it: answers are kept while the question is open and afterwards as a record of how a correction was decided.

Spam protection

Before you can send a report or start answering questions, Cloudflare Turnstile checks that you are a person. The Turnstile script loads only when you open the report form or the help page. Cloudflare may set its own cookies or collect browser signals for this, under its own policy. To limit abuse we also store a salted, shortened hash of your IP address with each submission (not the address itself) and use it to stop one connection sending more than a few reports per hour or answering the same question twice. We cannot recover your IP address from the hash.

Services the site relies on

• Hosting and images. Cloudflare serves pages from theclassalbum.com and portraits from img.theclassalbum.com (Cloudflare R2).
• Analytics. Google Analytics (Google's privacy policy).
• Links out. Research links on person pages go to FamilySearch, the Internet Archive and the Library of Congress. They have their own policies.
• Affiliate links. Some links elsewhere on the site (guides, yearbook buying pages) go to eBay and Amazon and are marked "sponsored". The other site learns that you came from here and may set its own cookies once you click. We learn whether a purchase was made, never who made it. See eBay Partner Network's policy and Amazon's privacy notice. Affiliate links do not appear inside the facts on a person page.

Email

If you write to hello@theclassalbum.com, the message is forwarded to the site owner's inbox. We keep your message and address to reply and to act on your request, and delete them when the matter is closed unless you ask us to keep them.

The people in the archive

Everyone here appears in a yearbook or other published work from 1945 or earlier. We hold what that work, and the city directories of the time, printed about them, and nothing from paid records or social media. Some of the people in the later yearbooks may still be alive. Anyone, or a relative, can ask for a correction or for a page to be removed at any time and without giving a reason; see corrections.

We do not knowingly collect information from children. The people shown were school students decades ago and the pages carry only what the yearbook printed.

Your choices

• Ask us what we hold from your submissions, or to delete it, by writing to hello@theclassalbum.com.
• Block Google Analytics with the opt-out add-on or your browser's tracking settings; the site works without it.
• Decline Cloudflare's challenge by not opening the report form; reading pages needs no challenge.

Changes

If we add advertising or other tracking, or change what we keep, this page is updated before the change goes live and says what it collects.