Privacy

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Build Almanac is a free register of major infrastructure projects. You don't need an account to use it. It sets no cookies unless you accept Google Analytics.

When you visit

We count visits with Vercel Web Analytics, which our host provides. It sets no cookies and doesn't follow you to other sites. For each page view it records:

• the page's address and the page that linked to it;
• your country and region, worked out from your IP address;
• your browser, operating system and kind of device.

To tell one visitor from another within a day, it uses a code made from your request, which it discards after 24 hours. Your IP address itself isn't stored.

When a search on the map finds no project, we also count the words searched. They show us where the register has gaps. Please don't type personal details there.

Google Analytics, if you accept

We also use Google Analytics to understand how the site is used, such as which pages people visit and how they arrive. Google provides it and handles this data on our behalf, as our processor, under Google's data processing terms for Google Analytics.

• Before you choose, and if you say no, Google Analytics doesn't load at all: Google receives nothing and no cookie is set. If you say no after accepting, it stops at once and its cookies are deleted.
• If you accept, it sets cookies (named _ga and _ga_GWRHSXS6LQ) to tell visits apart, which last up to two years. It records the pages you view (without anything typed into a page address), how you arrived, and your browser, device and approximate location. Advertising features are off, and nothing is used for ads.
• We remember your answer in your browser, once you've given it, so we don't ask again. You can change it at any time with Cookie choices at the foot of each page; saying no deletes the Google Analytics cookies.

When you send a correction

The correction form keeps what you write: the project, your message, a link to a source if you give one, and your email address if you give one. We use your email address only to reply about that correction.

• Corrections are never published, and we don't share them.
• To stop the form being flooded, we keep a one-way code made from your IP address, never the address itself. The secret used to make it changes every day and is then deleted, and the code itself is deleted within two days.
• We keep a correction until we've dealt with it, and then for up to 12 months. To have one removed sooner, ask through the form.

Advertising

There are no ads on Build Almanac today. Ads may come later to pay for the site. If they do, this page will change first, to say what the ad network collects and what choices you have.

Changes

We'll update this page whenever what we collect changes. Last updated 20 October 2026.