Privacy

Turku 1000 is a website about the history of Turku. It collects as little as possible about its readers.

No cookies, no analytics, no ads

The site sets no cookies. It has no analytics or tracking scripts, no advertising and no social media buttons. It loads nothing from other services: the fonts, pictures and music all come from this site. Links to sources take you to other websites, which have their own rules.

The music setting

When you turn the music on or off, your choice is saved in your own browser (in local storage, under the name turku1000-music), so that the next page remembers it. It is never sent to us. You can remove it by clearing this site’s data in your browser.

The feedback form

The form at the end of each page sends us what you write: the kind of feedback, your message, the source you give and, if you want an answer, your email address. We store these with the page and the time in a database at Cloudflare. To stop spam, a scrambled code made from your internet connection is stored with the message for one day and then removed. Your IP address itself is not stored. We use your email address only to answer your message. Messages are kept until we delete them.

Hosting

The site is hosted by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare handles technical information such as your IP address and the type of your browser in order to deliver the pages and to protect the site from attacks. Cloudflare shows us overall numbers, such as requests per day and per country, but no list of visitors. Requests to the feedback form are also kept in Cloudflare’s technical logs for a few days, so that we can fix errors.

Deleting your feedback

If you want us to delete a message you have sent, or to tell you what we have stored, send a new message with the form below. Tell us roughly when you sent it and from which page, or quote a few words from it, so that we can find it. We will delete it, and if you give an email address we will confirm.

Who is responsible

The site is a private, non-commercial project. The person responsible is named at the bottom of every page. If you think we handle your data wrongly, you can complain to the Data Protection Ombudsman in Finland (tietosuoja.fi).

Updated 12 November 2026

Ask about your data

Use “Other feedback” to ask us to delete a message or to tell you what we have stored.