Privacy

The short version

This is a reference site. There are no accounts, no advertising, no tracking cookies, and nothing here is sold or shared with anyone. The only personal information the site ever receives is what you type into the contact form, which goes straight to my inbox, and what Discord passes along if you use the Discord app, described below.

Who runs this site

Vault 713 Archive is run by an individual, not a company. You can reach me at contact@vault713archive.com. The rules for using the site are in the terms of use.

Analytics

The site uses Vercel Analytics to count page views and see which pages people actually use. It records the page visited, the referring site, and coarse details like country, browser, and device type. It does not use cookies, does not build a profile of you, and does not follow you to other sites.

What is stored in your browser

A few small values are stored locally, on your device only. They are never sent to a server, and none of them identify you.

One remembers that you dismissed the announcement banner, so it stays dismissed. One remembers that you dismissed the tip bar, for the same reason. One notes that the header's opening animation has already played in this tab, so it plays the shorter version afterwards instead of repeating in full. One remembers whether you chose the light or the dark theme, so the site opens the way you left it; if you haven't chosen, the site follows your device's setting and stores nothing. One remembers that you've seen the tip about the dark theme, so it isn't shown first again.

The Daily Remembrall Puzzle also sets one cookie, which your browser sends back to the site's server. It holds the day, the ids of the cards you have guessed so far and whether you have won or lost, signed so it can't be changed. It is how your six guesses stay counted when you reload the page. It expires after two days, is used for nothing else, and doesn't identify you.

Clearing your browser's site data for this domain removes all of them. For the puzzle, that starts the day's game over.

The contact form

If you send a message, the name, email address, subject, and message you enter are emailed to me through Resend, the service that delivers mail for this site. A copy is also sent back to the address you entered, so you have a record of what you sent.

Messages are not added to any mailing list, and there is no mailing list to be added to. Your address is used to reply to you and nothing else.

The form also keeps a short-lived, in-memory count of recent submissions per IP address to limit spam. It is not written to a database and does not survive a server restart.

The Discord app

Revelio is a Discord app that looks up cards from this site. When you run one of its commands, Discord sends the app the command and whatever you typed into it, along with your Discord user ID and the IDs of the server and channel. The app uses that to answer, and nothing more. It can't read your messages, and it has no access to your account, your friends, or who is in a server.

It keeps a short in-memory count of how many commands each user ID and each server ID has run in the last minute, to limit spam. Those counts are not written anywhere and disappear when the server restarts. The app does not store your user ID, your server, or what you typed. The site's logs record that a command ran and how long it took, not what you typed into it.

Discord handles your account and your messages under its own privacy policy. Adding the app to your account or a server is a choice you make with Discord, and you can remove it there at any time.

Third-party services

Card prices and listings come from eBay's public APIs. Those requests are made by this site's server, not by your browser, so eBay does not see who you are when a page loads. Following a listing link takes you to eBay, where their own privacy policy applies.

Discord is where the Discord app runs. It passes the app the details described above each time a command is used.

Population report links point to PSA and CGC. Those are ordinary outbound links, and those sites' own policies apply once you follow one.

The site is hosted on Vercel, which keeps standard server request logs.

Server logs and security

Like any website, the servers that deliver this one record standard request details, such as your IP address, the page you asked for, and your browser type. They are used to keep the site running and secure, and they are kept by the host according to its own policies, not read through by me.

The site is served over HTTPS and sets browser security headers to protect you while you use it. No system is perfectly secure, though, so please don't put passwords, payment details, or other sensitive information in the contact form. If something that affects you were ever exposed, I'd tell you as the law requires.

How long things are kept

A message you send stays in my email inbox until I delete it, and Resend keeps its own delivery records under its policy. Analytics are aggregated counts, not records about individuals. The Discord app keeps nothing at all. The site keeps nothing else about you, because it has no accounts and no database of visitors.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13, and I don't knowingly collect personal information from them. If a child has sent a message through the contact form, tell me and I'll delete it.

Your rights and choices

You can ask what the site holds about you, ask me to correct it, or ask me to delete it. People in places with privacy laws, such as the EU, the UK, and California, have specific rights, and I'll honor them for anyone, wherever you live.

The site doesn't sell your personal information or share it for advertising. It doesn't track you across other sites, so there is nothing for a Do Not Track signal to switch off.

Where information is handled

The site, its host, and its email provider operate from the United States. If you use the site from elsewhere, what you send through the contact form and the standard request details described above are handled there.

Changes to this policy

If what the site collects or does with it changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top is updated.

Questions

If you want to know what the site holds about you, or want a message you sent deleted, just ask and it will be done.