Privacy Policy

Who runs this site

Venture Atlas (ventureatlas.org) is published by an independent individual creator (ApoStructura) on a non-commercial basis. For anything related to this policy or your data, contact flightatlas.contact@gmail.com - we respond within 30 days.

Traffic measurement (what we collect)

This site measures its traffic on its own servers, at the network edge, rather than with third-party tracking scripts. For each request we record: the page path, the referring site, your country and city (derived from your connection by our hosting provider), your browser family and device class (phone, tablet, desktop), and the time of the request.

To count visits and returning visitors without identifying anyone, each visitor is assigned a pseudonymous identifier: a salted SHA-256 hash computed from the site, your IP address, and your user-agent string. Your raw IP address is not stored by the analytics - only the irreversible hash. We cannot use it to identify you, and we do not try to.

The same system classifies non-human traffic (search-engine crawlers, AI assistants, automated agents) by user-agent so we can tell people apart from bots. Requests are also logged briefly in our hosting platform's runtime logs (path, user-agent, classification) for operations and debugging.

Retention: daily aggregate counters are kept for 90 days; per-visit session records expire after 48 hours. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in understanding how the site is used and keeping it secure (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)). The site also uses Vercel Web Analytics, a cookie-free, aggregated page-view counter provided by our hosting platform.

The public API and MCP server

Venture Atlas offers a public JSON API and an MCP server. To protect the service from abuse, requests to the MCP endpoint are rate limited by client IP address in short fixed windows; these counters are transient (they expire within minutes) and are used for nothing else.

Cookies and local storage

Browsing this site sets no cookies. Your light or dark theme choice is saved in your browser's local storage and never sent to us. Because we use no non-essential cookies, there is no cookie banner. There are no accounts, no sign-ups, and no forms collecting personal data.

Third parties (processors)

Two service providers process data on our behalf, under their own data-processing agreements: Vercel (Vercel Inc., USA) hosts the site, serves it from its edge network, and provides the cookie-free web analytics mentioned above; as the host, Vercel processes connection data (including IP addresses) to deliver the site, as any web host does. Upstash (Upstash Inc., USA) is the database where the aggregated traffic counters, hashed visitor identifiers, and transient rate-limit counters described above are stored.

We do not sell, rent, or share your data with anyone else, and no advertising or marketing service receives anything from this site.

Your rights

Under the GDPR and similar laws you have the right to access, rectify, and erase personal data about you, to object to processing, and to lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority (in France, the CNIL - cnil.fr). Because our analytics stores only irreversible hashes, we generally cannot link any stored data back to you as an individual, which also means there is usually nothing identifiable to retrieve or erase. For any request, write to flightatlas.contact@gmail.com.

Hosting (legal notice)

This site is published non-professionally by an individual. Host: Vercel Inc., 340 S Lemon Ave #4133, Walnut, CA 91789, United States - vercel.com.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the date at the top of this page will be updated. The current version always lives at ventureatlas.org/privacy.