marxes.net was created in 2004 to host a curation of memories and related stuff for family and dear friends. It has since joyfully expanded and extended in functionality beyond “Marx” family members during its 20 years in operation. Today, it remains free for your enjoyment – and now, open for your participation.

Guests are always welcomed to read and comment, or reply to previous comments. Neither a log-in account nor even an email address is required.

However, to avoid inappropriate content (hackers and spammers?), comments offered by Guests are held pending publication until individually approved – usually within a few hours. Thumbs up or down voting on posted comments remains unavailable to Guests for similar reasons.

But by providing an email address, Guests can become approved as “Subscribers” – who may wish to receive email notifications about visitor comments and replies on any selected pages of their choosing.

Links to unsubscribe to any or all pages are made readily available both online as well as via email.

Once approved, “Subscribers” can then post their own comments and replies immediately without delay.

“Authors” are like “Subscribers” but with even greater access: they can create their own posts and upload images in the ramblings section. Once granted “Author” status, their original subsequent posts are published immediately. This role is freely available to family and friends through a simple request for such access, which can be made here.

(Note: Since comments and posts operate on different systems, an Author’s initial comment still awaits one-time approval, after which all subsequent comments are posted immediately.)

The marxes.net website is generally keto-friendly. So although a few basic cookies are needed for guests (who want to leave comments) we don’t keep them around for long.

More specifically, to spare you from having to constantly re-enter your screen name (and, optionally, your email), we save that info on your own browser for a limited time.

And after 15 days, such cookies expire so your browser should eliminate them. If you still detect cookies past their expiration date, let us know and we’ll work with you to figure out where the issue might be.

When it comes to cookies, we take expiration dates seriously.

When you visit our login screen, we understand that our system sets a temporary cookie to determine if your browser will accept a cookie from this site. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded after you close your browser.

But once you log in, we use setup cookies to save your login information.You can easily delete cookies using your browser’s privacy controls, so feel free to do so at any time. As for other data, check out our privacy policy.

Sure.

But if you do, you should avoid uploading images with sensitive location data (EXIF GPS) since visitors to the website can then download and extract such location info from those images. If you don’t care about location privacy (as to where the photo was taken) then no worries.

Well, no, we don’t do that here.

Some ramblings posts may include links to outside reference sources of topical interest, but those are external and there is no need to follow any links.

The idea of not embedding external content within marxes.net is to help keep it a safer space.

Nope. At least not by us.

But marxes.net is currently open to guest viewing from anywhere on the planet. So keep this in mind when posting comments or Author uploads.

Well, much of the current content extends back over 20+ years. While the wayback machine videos feature photos going back as far as 1950.

Our website serves as a family/friends museum of sorts and so our data retention policy is straightforward: Keep stuff.

Not much, if any. If you upload or post, it becomes part of the marxes.net data set.

If you have a compelling reason to take something down (e.g., photo, comment, reply or rambling post) that hasn’t weathered well over time, we’ll certainly strive to honor such requests. But understand that upon posting something you’ve effectively waived your right to privacy, since marxes.net is open to the global public.

Thus, even after we remove content, like diamonds, the internet is forever.

Yes. But it’s private.

No, seriously, it’s over here.

Seriously? You come to a frequently asked questions page for this?

While there’s no single snappy answer, one thing is clear… time spent surfing the web can suck a lot of potential meaning out of one’s life. Please be careful out there.