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 join The Wire (our email dispatch), we store your email address solely to send you confirmed GTA news and site updates. 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.
Transactional email: we send email through Resend — a double-opt-in confirmation when you subscribe, and an unsubscribe link in every email we send. You can also email hello@viceatlas.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject line and your address is removed within 7 days.
Account data
Accounts (profiles, crews, comments) collect a username, an email address, and any profile content you choose to make public — stored in Supabase. To delete your account and its data, email hello@viceatlas.com from the address on the account; deletion completes within 30 days. Graded public records (comment votes, standing) are anonymized rather than rewritten, so other members' records stay intact.
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
Vice Atlas sets cookies only for signed-in members: a session cookie that keeps you logged in (via Supabase Auth), and a short-lived referral cookie if you arrive through an invite link. Both are functional, not tracking. Plausible analytics is cookieless. The Wire email form does not require a cookie. There is no advertising or cross-site tracking cookie of any kind.
How long we keep data
- Analytics: Plausible retains aggregate analytics data per their stated retention policy.
- Wire email: kept until you unsubscribe or request deletion. We do not retain unsubscribed emails.
- Account data: 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; email signups land here as logged events
- Cloudflare (DNS + email forwarding) — proxies email sent to
hello@viceatlas.comto a personal inbox - Plausible (analytics) — aggregate traffic data only, no personal identifiers
- Discord (private notification channel) — receives email signups via webhook so the operator is notified in real time; the channel is not public
- Supabase (database + authentication) — stores accounts, profiles, comments, crews, saves, and follows under row-level security
- Resend (transactional email) — delivers confirmation, digest, and unsubscribe emails
- GitHub (source code) — the site's code is hosted on GitHub. No user data is committed to source control.
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.