Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 14, 2026

About this policy

This policy explains what Military and Cancer collects when you browse this site, use its tools, or submit a comment. The site does not offer public user accounts, advertising, behavioral analytics, password resets, media uploads, or personalized marketing.

Information collected when you visit

Like most web servers, our server records technical request information needed to operate and protect the site. These access logs may include your IP address, the date and time, the page or file requested, the response status, the referring page, and your browser user-agent string. These logs are used for security, troubleshooting, capacity planning, and abuse prevention. They are not used to build advertising profiles.

The light or dark theme choice is stored only in your browser's local storage.

Comments

Comment forms ask for a display name, an optional email address, and the comment itself. The display name and comment are required. New comments are held for moderation and are not public unless approved.

If you provide an email address, the application trims it, converts it to lowercase, creates a SHA-256 hash, and immediately discards the address itself. Only that hash is stored. An email hash is pseudonymous rather than fully anonymous because someone who already knows an address could calculate the same hash. The hash is used only to associate moderation records; it is not sent to Gravatar or another profile service and is not displayed publicly.

After approval, the display name, comment text, and submission date may appear publicly on the page where the comment was submitted. The email hash is never displayed. Comments may be edited or removed during moderation, and spam or abusive submissions may be rejected or deleted.

Approved comments may be retained for as long as the related page remains published. Pending comments are retained until they are approved or deleted. To request removal of one of your comments, submit a new comment on the same page identifying the comment and, if you originally supplied an email address, use the same address. The request will enter moderation and will not be published as a normal comment.

Cookies and local storage

The site sets a strictly necessary csrf_token cookie on rendered pages. It contains a random, cryptographically signed token used to prevent forged form submissions. It is marked Secure and SameSite=Strict and expires after 24 hours. It is not an analytics or advertising cookie.

Administrators who sign in receive a strictly necessary mac_session cookie. It is marked Secure, HttpOnly, and SameSite=Strict and expires after 24 hours. Public visitors do not receive an account or login cookie.

The site does not set comment-convenience cookies and does not remember names or email addresses entered into comment forms.

External links and embedded tools

Pages link to official sources and other organizations. Following an external link takes you to a separate site governed by its own privacy policy. The site's own embeddable map and calculator do not load third-party advertising or analytics resources.

Sharing and disclosure

Military and Cancer does not sell visitor information or comment information. Technical records and stored comments may be accessed by authorized site administrators and infrastructure providers when necessary to operate, secure, back up, or troubleshoot the service. Information may also be preserved or disclosed when required by law or necessary to protect the service and its users.

Security and retention

The site uses HTTPS, access controls, signed form tokens, moderation, and other technical safeguards. No internet service can guarantee absolute security. Operational logs and backups are retained according to the server's security, rotation, and backup schedules and are removed or overwritten as those schedules run.

Questions and correction requests

There is currently no public account portal or automated data-export system. For a comment correction or removal request, use the moderation method described in the Comments section above. Do not place medical records, claim numbers, Social Security numbers, or other sensitive personal information in a comment.