Jarrah Scouts
Privacy
What the archive holds about a contributor, what it publishes, and what a reader who only looks is asked for, which is nothing.
Last updated 24 September 2026
In short
Reading the archive asks nothing of you. There is no account and no newsletter, and the only count kept is how many people visit, with no cookie and nothing that identifies you.
Submitting an event asks for your name and a way to reach you, a phone number or an email address. Your name is published with the event as its credit. The phone and the email are never published.
The archive is about people, many of them no longer alive. If a record names you and you would rather it did not, tell us and we will take the name out.
Who we are
This is the heritage archive of the Jarrah Scouts, a scout association in Lebanon founded in 1937. It is run by volunteers from the group.
This page covers jarrahscout.com. It does not cover a conversation held elsewhere, or a photograph a family keeps at home.
To ask what we hold, to correct a record or to have something removed, write through the contact page. Nothing needs a reason attached.
If you only read
Nothing about you is collected. There is no sign in, no comment box and no newsletter.
There is no Google Analytics, no advertising pixel and no session recorder, and nobody records what you look at. The site does count how many people visit: the first time a page opens in your browser it tells the site once, no cookie is set, no page address is sent, and no network address or identifier is kept for it, only the number of people each day. A small mark in your browser’s storage stops you being counted twice, and with Do Not Track switched on nothing is sent.
Cloudflare, which serves the site, also adds its own Web Analytics beacon. It sets no cookie and counts page views without following anyone to another site.
Your language choice and, while the archive is behind its construction gate, the fact that you have entered the code, are remembered in your own browser. Neither leaves your device.
What a submission takes
Your name, which is published beside the event as the credit for the contribution.
A phone number, an email address or both, which are not published. They exist so somebody can come back to you about a date, a place or a name that does not fit the rest of the record.
The event itself: a title, the story you write, a category, the date, the place and its pin on the map, and up to eight photographs.
The time of the submission, the network address and country it came from, the browser it was sent with and the language of the form, kept so the archive can be cleared of spam. They are not published and they are not used to build any picture of a person.
Writing to us
A message sent through the contact page keeps your name, the email address or phone number you gave, what you wrote and the record it was about, if any.
The time, the network address, the country and the browser it came from are kept with it, for the same reason as a submission: to keep spam out. Only the archive team reads it, and it can be deleted once it has been dealt with.
Photographs and the people in them
A photograph sent to the archive is published with the event once it has been reviewed. Send what you are willing to see on a public map.
Many of these pictures are of children, taken decades ago. We publish a photograph as a record of an event and never with a name attached to a face.
If you appear in a photograph here, or a member of your family does, and you would rather it was not published, tell us. It comes down. We do not ask you to prove anything first.
Reviewing before publishing
Nothing appears on the map until somebody from the archive team has read it. That is a check on accuracy and on what belongs in a public record.
A submission that is not published is not deleted straight away: it is kept while the details are chased. Ask for it back and we will remove it.
Where it is kept
With Cloudflare, in an account only the archive team can sign in to: the events, their photographs, the contact details and the daily visitor count. Cloudflare stores what we put there, as our processor, and does not use it for anything of its own.
The site itself is static files served from a content delivery network, so a page may be cached on a server outside Lebanon. There is nothing personal in those files.
Your rights
You can ask what is held about you, ask for a copy, ask for a correction, or ask for something to be taken down.
Lebanon’s Law 81 of 2018 on electronic transactions and personal data gives you those rights here, and the GDPR gives the same ones to anybody reading from Europe.
A historical record is not deleted lightly, because that is the point of an archive. A name, a face or a contact detail is a different matter, and those we will always take out on request.
Changes
If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.
