Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 2025

The Global Foundation for the Neglect of Digital Culture (GFNDC) is committed to the principle of informational non-interference. As an organization dedicated to the ethical preservation of digital heritage, we recognize the right to informational self-determination and the importance of context over identity.

Accordingly, GFNDC does not collect personal data, does not utilize cookies, and does not engage in any form of programmatic or behavioral tracking. No login is required to access our archives, and we do not request, retain, or correlate any identifiers from our visitors.

We deliberately avoid embedding third-party services, analytics providers, or surveillance-adjacent technologies. There are no trackers, ad networks, session recorders, or invisible pixels. Our static content delivery stack is designed to prevent passive data leakage at every layer under our control.

Our hosting and delivery infrastructure may log anonymized technical metadata (e.g. timestamp, IP region, error codes) solely for security, anti-abuse, and load balancing purposes. This data is not available to GFNDC and is managed under the regulatory oversight of our infrastructure partners in accordance with applicable U.S. and international standards.

We explicitly disavow the use of fingerprinting, heat mapping, or clickstream analysis. Even when technically possible, such practices are viewed by GFNDC as incompatible with the principles of historical stewardship.

Email Contact & Correspondence

When you contact us via email (e.g. hr@gfndc.org, contact@gfndc.org), we will only use the information you provide to respond to your inquiry. Messages are not entered into any CRM system, and we do not retain correspondence longer than necessary to complete your request unless you explicitly request continuity (e.g. volunteer onboarding).

We do not send marketing emails, newsletters, or unsolicited communications. We do not engage in third-party data sharing, nor do we allow cross-referencing with any external systems.

Archival Integrity & Privacy Concerns

As part of our preservation mandate, we routinely archive publicly accessible digital content. We acknowledge that the boundary between public and personal is increasingly complex. For inquiries regarding archived materials, requests for redaction, or concerns about ethical inclusion, please contact our Preservation Ethics Office at ethics.html.

All such requests are reviewed by our internal Privacy & Ethics Working Group (PEWG) in accordance with our Transparency Doctrine (rev. 2023.4b) and in consultation with our external advisors on digital rights and memory governance.

Your Privacy Is Not Our Business

We are not interested in who you are. We care about what was left behind — artifacts, not identities. As such, you will never be asked to consent to tracking, because we have nothing to track.

“Forget us entirely. That’s the point.”