Privacy

What we store

The Infinite Archive runs entirely in your browser. There is no account system, no login, no profile. When you use the site, your browser’s local storage remembers a small set of preferences so that returning to the site feels less like starting over:

• Your theme selection (Nebula, Graphite, Light, or Theme).
• The composite-weight slider positions you’ve set on the Strength Index.
• Whether you’re viewing the breakdown table organized by composite band or by Practice tier.
• Which signal you’ve selected for the cross-signal scatter.
• The faction you’ve selected for the detail panel.
• Which view (forest plot vs breakdown table) is active on the Strength Index.
• Which stat view (win rate, representation, or round attrition) is active on the Quantum Results tab.
• Saved matchup matrices and other workings in the Pairings Tool.
• That you’ve acknowledged this notice.

All of these live only in your browser. They never reach our servers. Clearing your browser’s site data for infinitearchive.org clears them.

What we don’t do

The Archive does not run web analytics. There is no Google Analytics, no Plausible, no Fathom, no anything. We do not know who you are or how many of you there are; the Editor checks Cloudflare’s aggregate request count occasionally to know the site is being served, and that is the extent of it.

The Archive does not use tracking pixels, advertising identifiers, or third-party scripts of any kind beyond the typeface and library loads described below. We do not sell your data, share it with third parties, or use it to build a profile. There is no profile to build.

The Archive does not place advertising. Hard constraint #3 of the project: no paid placement, ever. Editorial integrity is the value proposition.

Third parties we depend on

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare’s content delivery network sets one functional cookie named __cf_bm for bot-protection purposes. This is a strictly-necessary cookie under the ePrivacy Directive and does not require consent. It expires after about 30 minutes of inactivity and is not used for tracking.

The site loads typeface files from Google Fonts and the Chart.js charting library from cdnjs.cloudflare.com (used by interactive widgets like the cross-signal scatter and the dashboard charts). These CDN providers may log standard request metadata (IP address, browser version, timestamp) as part of serving the asset. The Archive does not set or read any data through them and does not receive that metadata.

Why this posture

The Archive’s editorial value comes from being independent of the things tracking-driven sites usually need to be dependent on: advertisers, profile-building marketers, engagement-maximisation product teams. We don’t track because we don’t need to, and because not tracking lets us keep saying the analytical things we came here to say without anyone wondering whose interests are shaping which read.

This page exists because some jurisdictions require a clear disclosure even when the disclosure is small. It also exists because the Editor thinks the disclosure is itself part of the Archive’s editorial posture: a site that tells you what it’s doing with your data, in plain English, is doing a different job than a site that buries the same information in twenty pages of legalese. The disclosure is the methodology applied to itself.

Changes to this notice

If the Archive’s data posture ever changes — if we add analytics, take payments, accept advertising, or do anything else that materially alters what we store or share — we will update this page and reset the acknowledgment so the banner surfaces again. The site changelog will record the change.

Questions

Editorial questions, including questions about this notice, are best raised via the Phalanx-contribution channel described on the About page.

— The Editor