Privacy policy
Last updated: 10 November 2026. In short: this site has no account and no form, does not sell data about its visitors, and sets analytics cookies only if you accept them.
Who is responsible
The publisher of Dark Majestic (see the legal notice). Contact for any question about your data: contact@darkmajestic.org.
What we collect, and why
- Page views, anonymously. Cloudflare Web Analytics, a service of our host, counts visits (page viewed, referring site, country, type of device and browser). No cookie, no storage in your browser, no tracking across websites or over time, no advertising profile; your IP address is not kept. Purpose: knowing which pages are useful. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in understanding the audience of the site, with data that does not identify you.
- Google Analytics 4, only if you accept. When you first visit, a banner asks you to accept or decline. Declining is as easy as accepting, and nothing is loaded from Google and no cookie is set until you accept. If you accept, Google Analytics (Google Ireland Limited, with Google LLC in the United States) counts visits and sets the cookies “_ga” and “_ga_…” (up to 13 months) in your browser; it records the page viewed, the referring site, approximate location, device and browser. We turned off Google Signals and advertising personalization. Purpose: understanding which pages are useful. Legal basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time with the “Cookies” link in the footer (declining deletes the cookies). See Google's privacy policy.
- Technical logs of our host. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes your IP address and technical request data to deliver the pages and protect the site against attacks. Legal basis: legitimate interest in the security and delivery of the site. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
- Your language choice, only if you make one. If you choose a language with the globe button, your choice is kept in your browser (local storage and a “googtrans” cookie) so that the following pages open translated, and Google processes the pages sent for translation under its own privacy policy. Nothing is loaded from Google before you choose. Choosing “English” deletes the choice and the cookie. Legal basis: your choice.
- Your e-mail, if you write to us. If you write to contact@darkmajestic.org, we use your address and message only to answer you, and keep them as long as needed for that exchange.
- The supporters' newsletter, only if you support the site. If you give $5 or more on Ko-fi, the e-mail address you gave Ko-fi is passed to Kit to send you the monthly newsletter; nothing else is passed and nothing is kept by the small program that does it. Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link, which removes your address. Legal basis: the contribution you made and the newsletter you receive in return.
What we do not do
No advertising or social-media pixels, no analytics other than the two above (Cloudflare's, and Google's only if you accept), no fingerprinting, no sale or rental of data, no profile of visitors, no decision made automatically about you. Links to other websites (official sources, Ko-fi, Kit) only open when you click them; those sites apply their own policies.
Cookies and similar technologies
The site itself sets no cookie. Two kinds can appear, both only on your choice: “googtrans”, after you choose a translation language (see above), and “_ga” / “_ga_…”, only if you accept Google Analytics. We also store your cookie choice in your browser (local storage, key “dm-mesure”). Cloudflare Web Analytics uses neither cookie nor browser storage. To change your choice, use the “Cookies” link in the footer.
Where data goes
Our host (Cloudflare), Google (translation and, if you accept, Analytics) and the newsletter service (Kit) are based in the United States or operate there. Each describes in its own policy, linked above, the safeguards it applies to transfers of data from the European Union.
Your rights
You can ask for access to, correction or deletion of your data, ask us to limit its use, or object to it, by writing to contact@darkmajestic.org. If you think your rights are not respected, you can complain to the French data protection authority, the CNIL.
Changes
If the site adds or changes a service that processes visitors' data (for example a new advertising or measurement service), this page and the legal notice are updated first, and a consent request is added where the law requires one.