Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Posture

Darkweb Market Atlas is a reference resource: we map markets, forums, escrow models and the law-enforcement operations that take them down. We do not host listings, process transactions, or run accounts for readers. That makes privacy simple to describe, and we would rather describe it plainly than hide behind contract language. Below is exactly what our servers see, why, and how you can push back.

Cookies and Local Storage

There is no advertising stack here and no cross-site pixel network. We set no tracking cookies. A single first-party cookie may store your display preferences (theme, table density), and it stays on your device until you clear it. If we ever add anything beyond that, this page changes first.

What Reaches Our Servers

• Standard request logs: IP address, browser and version string, requested path, referring page, timestamp.
• Nothing else. No profiles, no email lists, no comment accounts, no uploaded files.

Logs are rotated on a short schedule and then discarded. We keep no long-term archive tied to visitors.

Why We Retain Logs At All

Purely operational: detecting scanning and scraping abuse, blocking denial-of-service traffic, troubleshooting broken pages, and estimating how much bandwidth the atlas needs. We never sell, rent, license, or trade visitor data — there is no commercial pathway for it to leave us. Aggregated page-view counts may inform which markets we document next; individual requests never do.

Outside Providers

Pages are delivered through a content delivery network, which necessarily sees the connection metadata described above while serving the request. Any audience measurement we run is cookieless and aggregate-only. We name no other processors, because we use none.

Your Rights Over Your Data

Even where the footprint is thin, you can exercise these:

1. Ask whether any record referencing your IP exists, and receive a description.
2. Request erasure of such records.
3. Object to a specific processing purpose, such as measurement.
4. Ask how long a given category is retained.

Write to {contact_email} and we will respond within a reasonable window.

Children Under 13

{site_name} is written for adult researchers, journalists and the merely curious, and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13, consistent with COPPA. If a parent or guardian believes a child’s data reached us, contact us and we will delete it.

Revisions

When practices shift, the revised text appears on this page with a new effective date at the top. Substantive changes will be flagged rather than slipped in silently.

Questions

Privacy inquiries, deletion requests and corrections go to {contact_email}. General correspondence about {site_name} can use the same address.