Bureau of Verified Records · Disclosure

Privacy and cookies

Last updated 12 August 2026

This page describes what is actually running on this site today. It is generated from the same configuration that decides which third-party scripts load, so it cannot drift out of step with the site itself.

The short version

• Pax Autocratica Archive has no accounts, no logins and no comments, and asks you for nothing.
• We do not collect names, email addresses or payment details, because there is nothing here to collect them for.
• Third-party scripts do run, and they are listed individually below.
• The only email we hold is email you choose to send us.

What we collect ourselves

Nothing, directly. The site is a set of static pages. There is no database, no account system, no newsletter, no comment section and no form that submits anything anywhere.

Two interactive tools on this site, the requirement checker and the buy-timing walkthrough, run entirely in your browser. Your answers are never transmitted to us and are not stored; they disappear when you close the tab.

If you set a light or dark theme, that choice is stored in your browser's local storage under the key theme. It stays on your device, is readable only by this site, and can be cleared through your browser settings.

Hosting

The site is hosted by Vercel, which processes standard server request logs including IP addresses in order to serve pages and protect against abuse. That processing is Vercel's, not ours, and is covered by their privacy policy.

Analytics

The site loads Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-TNZSHJJMQR), which sets cookies to measure how many people visit and which pages they read. We use it only in aggregate, to decide what to write next. We do not attempt to identify individual visitors.

You can prevent this with Google's opt-out browser add-on, or by blocking the script in your browser or an extension.

Advertising

This site loads the Google AdSense script, and has applied to show advertising through it (publisher ID ca-pub-3021590853305232). No ads are being served yet: Google requires the script to be present in order to review the application. The script can still set cookies while the review is pending, so everything below applies from now, not from the day ads first appear.

Google and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to serve and measure ads. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet. Specifically:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this and other sites.
• You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info.

Advertisers have no say in what this site publishes. No advertiser has paid for coverage, placement or a favourable characterisation of anything.

There is no consent banner on this site at the moment, because no ads are being served. A Google-certified consent message is required before ads can be shown to visitors in the EEA and the UK, and no ads will run in those regions until one is in place. We would rather tell you that a control is absent than describe one that is not here.

Links to other sites

This site links out heavily and on purpose: source links to Steam, the Epic Games Store and the Internet Archive exist so you can check our claims. Those sites have their own privacy policies, which we do not control. None of our outbound links are affiliate links and none of them earn us anything.

Email you send us

If you write to contact@pax-autocratica.online, we keep your message so we can reply and, where it is a correction, so we have a record of why a page changed. We do not add you to any list, because there is no list. Ask us to delete your message and we will.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal data held about you. Since the only personal data we hold is email you chose to send, exercising those rights is a matter of writing to the address above. For data held by Google or Vercel, their own policies and controls apply.

Changes to this page

When what the site loads changes, this page changes in the same deploy. The date at the top reflects the last substantive revision.