Privacy
What reaches us when you use Invisible Network, why, for how long, and who else sees what.
Last updated 27 October 2026.
In short
- There are no accounts, and the site asks nobody for a name, an email address or any other way to reach them. It sells no advertising, runs no analytics service, and sells or shares nothing about anyone. Films that play in YouTube's player show YouTube's own ads (below).
- Your internet address is used only to keep the site secure, fair to everyone and its counts honest, as a coded form held in memory (at most 15 minutes and 10 seconds, or until midnight UTC for the day's counts), never written down.
- What you watch, read and listen to, and your choices, stay in your browser.
- Pictures, films, sound and live channels come to your browser from the archives', museums' and broadcasters' own servers, which see your address.
Who runs the site
Invisible Network is run by Voyage Tracable, LLC, which decides what the site does with what reaches it. Questions about privacy, including a parent's, go to:
- Operator
- Voyage Tracable, LLC
- Address
- 3478 Caravelle St, Sarasota, FL 34240
- Phone
- (667) 771-6155
- david@voyagetracable.com
Your internet address
Your browser's internet address (IP address) comes with every request, as on any site. Cloudflare passes it to the site's servers, which use it for these purposes only:
| What for | Kept, and for how long |
|---|---|
| Each address's fair share of the work that costs the most (searches, requests to other sites, forms), so that one address cannot take what everyone else needs | A coded form of the address, in memory, at most 90 seconds after its last request |
| Counting each address once a day when a work begins to play, a TV row is chosen or the player notes something about energy, so the counts cannot be forged | A coded form of the address, in memory, emptied within seconds of midnight (UTC) and whenever the server restarts |
| Five tries at a profile's PIN in 15 minutes, so a PIN cannot be guessed | A coded form of the address with the profile, in memory, at most 15 minutes and 10 seconds |
| How many watch-together connections one address has open | A coded form of the address, in memory, until its last connection closes |
The coded form is a keyed hash: the key is made at random when the server starts and is never written down, so the hashes mean nothing outside that server's memory. The address itself is never written to disk, logged, sent to anyone, combined with anything else, or used to contact you, to build a profile of you, or for advertising. Supporting how the site works (keeping it secure and available to everyone, and its counts honest) is the only use the address has.
Your country
Cloudflare tells the server which country a request comes from. The server reads it for that request only, to offer what the law allows where you are (see where the site operates) and to start Radio and Podcasts with your country's stations and charts. It is not kept.
Cookies
The site sets these cookies, and no others. None is used for advertising or to follow you to other sites.
| Cookie | What it is for | Lasts |
|---|---|---|
inv_profile | Which of the site's profiles (Little Ones, Kids, Teens, Adult) is watching, so pages leave out what that profile may not see. Only the server reads it. | 30 days |
inv_profile_ui | The same profile, for the page to show who is watching. The server never trusts it. | 30 days |
inv_quality | The Default Quality chosen in Settings, which the player keeps to. | 1 year |
inv_speed | The Default Speed chosen in Settings, which the player starts at. | 1 year |
inv_captions | The Default Captions chosen in Settings, which the player starts with. | 1 year |
The games are played from the site's other address, https://invnet.org, and keep their saved games in your browser for that address. One of them, Hextris, also sets a cookie there named visited when you play it, which lasts until you close the browser.
Kept in your browser only
Your place in films, books, podcasts, radio dramas, comics and lectures; what you played lately; your radio favourites; what Moments learns from what you stay with or skip; your choices, such as TV mode, eco mode, the theme, the volume and subtitles; and films and episodes you keep to watch offline. All of it is in this browser's own storage, and none of it is sent to us beyond what the counts below say they carry: whether this browser is one of those chosen at random to try another order or way of playing, and how sets of Moments play in it. Settings shows it and clears it, and clearing this site's data in your browser removes it all.
Counted, with nothing about who
Pages tell the server a few things as you use them:
- how fast each page loaded (its address and three timings);
- how a stream played (the player's standard CMCD reports), with a random number new for every page, held in memory for at most 10 minutes and 10 seconds after the last piece of the stream;
- that a work began to play, or that a picture or a book was on screen for a second (the work's page address);
- on the one TV in ten chosen at random to keep the usual order, which row of home or section of the menu was chosen;
- at the end of a set of Moments, whether Stop here or More was pressed, with how sets play in that browser (straight through, or waiting for each press), whether it is the one browser in ten chosen at random to start by waiting, and the set's number in the visit;
- what the player did that moves energy: the kind of screen and decoder, eco mode, a video paused because nobody could see it;
- short notes that a page was viewed or a title started, which the server accepts and does not keep.
Each adds one to a sum for the day (UTC). The sums carry no address, cookie, profile or time finer than the day, and are kept 400 days. A figure is published only with at least 50 plays behind it, and a total that would reveal a smaller figure by subtraction is withheld too.
What you type or say
A search or a request to Ask the library is part of the page's address, and the server answers it from the site's own catalogues. A search in Podcasts, Free music or Wikisource is also passed on by the server to Apple Podcasts' directory and, where it is set up, Podcast Index; to the Internet Archive, Wikimedia Commons and, where it is set up, Jamendo; or to Wikisource. Only the words go, never your address, and the site keeps what those directories answer, not who asked. In the United Kingdom these searches cover the site's own catalogue only.
The microphone in the search field uses your browser's own speech recognition. Where your browser would send your speech to its maker's servers, the page says so first and waits for you to agree. This site receives only the words, never a recording.
Accessibility reports
What you write in the accessibility report form (the page and the problem, and whether it was sent from the captioning page) is kept, with nothing else, on the server that received it, in a file for that day, and deleted after 30 days. The people who run the site read it to fix the problem. The form cannot reply, so please leave out personal details; to hear back, write to david@voyagetracable.com.
When a radio station starts, the server tells Radio Browser, the directory the stations come from, which station it was (once a day for each station), as Radio Browser asks every app to; nothing about you goes with it.
Who else sees what
- Cloudflare, Inc. carries every request between your browser and the site, so it sees your address and what you ask for, under Cloudflare's privacy policy. Pages ask Cloudflare not to change them on the way, and it adds no script of its own.
- The archives, museums, broadcasters, stations and publishers whose works you open. Pictures, films, sound and live channels load in your browser straight from their own servers (for this reason pages may load pictures, sound, video and data from any secure site), and those servers see your address and what you load, under their own policies. Each work's page names where it comes from.
- Players from other sites, loaded only when you press Play or open them:
https://invnet.org,https://www.youtube-nocookie.com,https://embed.ted.com,https://videos.cern.ch,https://archive.org,https://images.nasa.gov,https://images-assets.nasa.gov,https://commons.wikimedia.org,https://upload.wikimedia.org,https://www.loc.gov. From then on a player talks to its own site, which may keep its own cookies or storage. - YouTube (YouTube LLC, part of Google), only when you press Play on a film that plays in YouTube's player, as below.
- Your browser's maker, for speech recognition, only if you agree as above.
No one else: the site sends nothing to any advertising network, analytics service or data broker.
Films that play in YouTube's player
Some films are full-length films their rights holders post free on their own YouTube channels (the list). The site uses YouTube API Services for them: it reads each film's title, description, picture, length, category, ratings, where it plays and whether YouTube designates it made for kids with the YouTube Data API, and plays the film in YouTube's embedded player. This is information about films, not about you, and the site keeps it at most 30 days before it is read again or deleted; its copy of each film's picture likewise.
Until you press Play on a film's page, nothing of YouTube's loads in your browser: the picture comes from the site's own copy. When you press Play, YouTube's player loads from www.youtube-nocookie.com in the page, and from then on it is YouTube's: YouTube receives your internet address and the address of the page, may place and read its own cookies and similar storage in your browser, and shows its own advertisements, so a third party serves content and advertising on the page through it. What YouTube collects is governed by Google's Privacy Policy, and watching is under YouTube's Terms of Service: by pressing Play you agree to be bound by them. Links to a film or a channel on YouTube open YouTube itself.
The site itself collects nothing about you for these films: it sends no report that a film was played and keeps nothing about who pressed Play. Clearing YouTube's cookies and storage, or YouTube's own settings, is done in your browser or on YouTube.
Children
The site has profiles for children under 13 (Little Ones and Kids). It asks no child for a name, an email address, a photo or any way to contact them. There are no accounts, chat, comments or uploads, so a child cannot make anything public. A child's visits reach the servers exactly as anyone's do, as described above, and nothing the servers keep says who the child is.
The one identifier the servers use is the internet address, for the purposes listed under Your internet address; the same section says how it is kept from being used to contact anyone or to build a profile. Parents: since nothing on the servers can be traced to your child, there is nothing there to show you or delete; clearing the site's data in the browser removes everything kept in it. Questions go to david@voyagetracable.com or (667) 771-6155.
How long each thing is kept
| What | Why it is kept | Deleted |
|---|---|---|
| Coded addresses for fair shares | To limit what one address can take while it is asking | At most 90 seconds after its last request |
| Coded addresses for the day's counts | To count each address once a day | Within seconds of midnight (UTC) |
| Coded addresses for PIN tries | To allow five tries in 15 minutes | At most 15 minutes and 10 seconds |
| Players' random session numbers | To count streams playing at once | At most 10 minutes and 10 seconds after the stream's last piece |
| Accessibility reports | To fix what they report | After 30 days |
| The day's sums (nothing about anyone) | To measure and publish how the site is used | After 400 days |
| What YouTube's Data API says about the films that play in YouTube's player, and the site's copies of their pictures (nothing about anyone) | To list them, as YouTube's terms allow | Read again or deleted within 30 days |
| Cookies | As listed under Cookies, in your browser | After 30 days or a year, or when you clear them |
| Your browser's storage | For you, in your browser | When you clear it |
The servers' logs record their own work (catalogues read, other sites not answering, errors) and hold none of the above: no address, cookie, search or report text.
Legal basis and your rights
Where the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union or of the United Kingdom applies to what reaches the servers, its basis is the site's legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)): keeping the site secure, available to everyone and its counts honest, for your address; and fixing what you report, for a report. Nothing else is asked of you: an address is needed to reach any website, and the report form is optional. No decision about you is made by automated means.
You may ask for access to personal data about you, for it to be corrected or deleted, for its use to be restricted, and for a copy you can take elsewhere. A coded address or a sum cannot be traced back to you, so the site cannot find anything of yours among them (Article 11(2)); a report you sent can be found from its words and its date. You may also complain to a data protection authority, in particular where you live or work.
Your right to object. You may object at any time, on grounds relating to your situation, to the use of personal data about you that rests on legitimate interests (Article 21). Write to david@voyagetracable.com.
The site's servers are in the United States.