Privacy Policy

Where This Site Stands on Your Privacy

Darkweb Market Ledger exists to document and index an ecosystem — marketplaces, hidden services, escrow design, takedowns, and the economics of trust in places built to avoid it. Reading about that world should not enlist you in a surveillance experiment. We keep the smallest footprint our hosting stack allows, we do not build reader profiles, and we do not trade personal information for revenue. What follows is a plain description of the little we hold.

The Data That Touches Us

Like any web server, ours writes a request to disk when a page is fetched. That entry is unremarkable:

• IP address — shortened or discarded on a rolling cycle.
• User agent string — browser and platform identifiers.
• Timestamps and the requested path or file.
• Referrer, when your browser chooses to send one.

No account, no profile, no reading history is assembled from these fragments. We ask for nothing you would have to type.

Why Any of It Is Kept

Log entries serve two narrow purposes: keeping the site online and stopping abuse — floods of automated requests, scraping that degrades service, attempts to exploit the publishing software. Aggregated counts may inform which articles deserve further work. We do not sell, rent, or barter this information, and we do not hand it to advertising networks or data brokers.

Cookies, Without Embellishment

There is no consent wall here because there is almost nothing to consent to. We set no advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. A single preference cookie may remember a display choice such as theme or text size; it stays on your device and holds no identifier that follows you elsewhere. Clear your browser storage and it is gone.

Services We Do Not Control

The site is delivered through a content delivery network, which necessarily observes the connection in order to serve pages. We run no third-party analytics platform, no social plug-ins, and no embedded trackers. External links in our articles lead to destinations governed by their own policies, not ours.

Rights You Hold Regardless

Because the data is thin, exclusions are rarely dramatic — but the rights are still yours:

1. Ask what, if anything, our logs contain about your address.
2. Request erasure of any record tied to you.
3. Ask why a particular entry is being retained.
4. Object to retention and receive a written answer.

We respond to verifiable requests within thirty days.

No Readers Under Thirteen

This directory is written for adults researching a criminal economy. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under thirteen, consistent with COPPA. Should such data come to our attention, we delete it.

When This Page Changes

Revisions appear in place, with the effective date amended at the top. Substantive alterations will be noted in the site’s changelog so the record stays legible.

Contact

Privacy questions, access requests, and deletion requests go to [email protected]. Mention Darkweb Market Ledger in the subject line so the message routes correctly.