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Privacy policy

What data we collect, why, and how to delete it. Cookieless analytics. Double-opt-in email. No third-party trackers.

Who runs this site

Vice Atlas is operated by CJ Davis. Email hello@viceatlas.com for any privacy question, request, or complaint.

What we collect

Aggregate analytics (no personal identifiers)

We use Plausible Analytics, a cookieless, privacy-first analytics service. Plausible records aggregate traffic data — page views, referrer, country, device class, browser family. It does not set cookies, does not track you across sites, and does not collect any personally identifiable information. There is no fingerprinting.

Plausible's data policy is documented at plausible.io/privacy-focused-web-analytics.

Email — only when you give it to us

If you sign up for the launch waitlist, we store your email address solely to notify you when Vice Atlas opens at GTA 6 launch (November 19, 2026). It is not sold, rented, traded, or shared with any third party.

Where your email actually goes today: the signup request is logged to our Vercel server logs (encrypted at rest) and forwarded to a private Discord channel that only the founder can see. Both surfaces are used for manual review during the pre-launch period when signup volume is small.

What is not yet in place: a transactional email service (e.g., Resend) for confirmation / unsubscribe links is planned but not wired as of the date below. That means we do not currently send a confirmation email after signup, and unsubscribe is handled manually — email hello@viceatlas.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject line and your email is removed from the log within 7 days. When the transactional email pipeline ships, this policy updates and we send a confirmation / unsubscribe-link email retroactively to existing signups.

Future: account data

When player profiles, crews, and comments launch (planned post-GTA 6 launch, with the underlying database — Supabase — provisioned ahead of that), users who create accounts will provide a username, email, and any profile content they choose to make public. Account-creation flows will surface this policy in the signup form, and account deletion will be self-serve. None of that data exists today — nothing has been collected because the surfaces aren't built yet.

What we do NOT collect

  • No cookies for tracking. Plausible is cookieless. We do not set any tracking cookies. (When account auth ships, a functional session cookie will be required for login — that cookie is purely functional and not used for tracking.)
  • No third-party advertising trackers. No Google Analytics, no Facebook Pixel, no AdSense user-tracking, no ad-network identifiers.
  • No fingerprinting. We do not use canvas fingerprinting, font fingerprinting, or any other browser-fingerprinting technique to identify you across visits.
  • No data brokers. We do not buy email lists, lead lists, or contact databases.

Cookies

As of the publication of this policy, Vice Atlas does not set any cookies. Plausible analytics is cookieless. The waitlist form does not require a cookie. There is no cookie consent banner because there is nothing to consent to.

If we add functional cookies in the future (e.g., a session cookie for logged-in users), we will update this policy and surface a notice on the relevant page.

How long we keep data

  • Analytics: Plausible retains aggregate analytics data per their stated retention policy.
  • Waitlist email: kept until you unsubscribe or request deletion. We do not retain unsubscribed emails.
  • Account data (future): kept while the account is active. Deleted within 30 days of an account-deletion request.

Your rights

Wherever you are, you can:

  • Request a copy of your data. Email hello@viceatlas.com and we'll send you everything we have associated with your email address within 30 days.
  • Request deletion. Same email. We delete within 30 days and confirm the deletion in writing.
  • Correct inaccurate data. Same email; we'll update or remove as appropriate.
  • Unsubscribe from email. One-click in any email we send; or email us directly.

GDPR / CCPA / regional regulations

Vice Atlas honors EU GDPR and California CCPA rights for any visitor regardless of where they live. The rights listed above apply universally.

If you're in the EU, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Data we share (we don't)

We do not sell your data. We do not rent it, trade it, or share it with third parties for marketing purposes. The only third parties who touch your data are the service providers we use to run the site:

  • Vercel (hosting) — sees request logs in normal operation; waitlist signups land here as logged events
  • Cloudflare (DNS + email forwarding) — proxies email sent to hello@viceatlas.com to a personal inbox
  • Plausible (analytics) — aggregate traffic data only, no personal identifiers
  • Discord (private notification channel) — receives waitlist signups via webhook so the founder is notified in real time; the channel is not public
  • GitHub (source code) — the site's code is hosted on GitHub. No user data is committed to source control.

Planned-but-not-yet-active processors (will be added when wired): Resend (transactional email — for confirmation / unsubscribe links) and Supabase (database — for accounts, comments, crews, and any waitlist persistence beyond Vercel logs). When either goes live, this policy updates.

Each of these processors operates under their own privacy policy and security practices. We pick processors that align with our stance on user privacy.

Security

All traffic to and from viceatlas.com is encrypted via HTTPS. We do not store passwords in plain text — when account auth ships, passwords will be hashed via industry-standard algorithms. Operational secrets (API keys, database credentials) live in Vercel's encrypted environment-variable store and are never committed to source control.

Changes to this policy

If this policy materially changes, we will update the  "last updated" date below and post a note on the home page when the change goes live. Trivial wording fixes do not trigger a notice.

Contact

Email hello@viceatlas.com with any privacy question. Real human at the other end. Response within 72 hours.

Last updated

2026-05-05.

This policy is written in plain language because legal-template obscurity favors the publisher, not the reader. If anything here is unclear, email and we'll explain. Vice Atlas takes user privacy as seriously as it takes editorial integrity — see our editorial policy and corrections policy.