Privacy policy
Last updated: November 13, 2026
This page explains what personal data thecryptoeconomy.com collects, why, who else receives it and what you can ask us to do with it. Questions and requests go to [email protected].
We built it from what the site actually does: the forms in our theme, the scripts our pages load and the cookies a browser receives on a visit, checked on November 13, 2026.
When you read the site
You don’t need an account to read anything here, and comments are switched off.
Google Analytics. Our pages load Google Analytics 4, which tells us which pages are read, how visitors find them and roughly where they come from. It sets two cookies on our domain, _ga and _ga_W0Z8FKDX0W. Google’s cookie documentation says the first is used to distinguish users and the second to keep session state, each with a default expiry of two years. Some browsers cut that shorter.
Google also says that in Google Analytics 4, IP addresses “are not logged or stored.” You can stop Google Analytics with Google’s opt-out browser add-on or by blocking cookies in your browser. The site works the same without them.
Cloudflare Web Analytics. We also count page views with Cloudflare’s analytics, which sets no cookies. Cloudflare says it “does not use any client-side state, such as cookies or localStorage” and doesn’t fingerprint visitors.
Server and network logs. Cloudflare sits in front of our server, and a hosting company runs the server. To deliver pages and protect the site from attacks, both process your IP address, browser details and the page you asked for, as any web service does.
When you send us something
The site collects personal data only through three forms, and each keeps no more than the table shows.
| What you do | What we keep | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Subscribe to the newsletter | Your email address, which form you used and the date | Stored privately on our site. If we connect an email service to send the newsletter (MailerLite or Brevo), the address is passed to it |
| Write to us through the contact or advertising form | Your name, email address and message, plus your company, website and topic if you give them | Sent to our inbox as an email. The form doesn’t save it in the site’s database |
| Submit an event to the calendar | The event details, your name and your email address | Saved as an unpublished listing for an editor to review. Your name and email are never shown on the site |
To stop spam, each form keeps a scrambled (hashed) copy of your IP address for one hour, which limits how often the same connection can submit.
Address Check
Our address checker runs in your browser. What you paste isn’t sent to thecryptoeconomy.com. For the freeze and balance checks your browser asks public blockchain services directly, and the Privacy section of Address Check lists each one.
Never paste a private key or a recovery phrase into any website. If you do it on ours, the page clears the field and sends nothing.
What we don’t do
We don’t sell personal data. We don’t run advertising networks or ad trackers. We don’t build profiles of readers, and we don’t ask for anything beyond what each form needs.
How long we keep it
Each kind of data has its own period.
- Newsletter addresses stay until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them.
- Messages you send us are kept as long as we need them to answer and follow up.
- Event listings stay while the event is relevant. Ask us and we’ll remove your contact details from a submission.
- Analytics data is kept for the period set in our Google Analytics and Cloudflare accounts.
When a period ends, we delete the data rather than archive it.
Your choices and rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask for a copy of the data we hold about you, to correct it, to have it deleted or to object to how we use it. Write to [email protected] from the address the request is about, and we’ll answer within 30 days.
You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by writing to the same address.
Children
The site isn’t aimed at children, and we don’t knowingly collect data from anyone under 16.
Changes to this policy
When something changes, for example a new service or a cookie consent tool, we’ll update this page and the date at the top.