Privacy Notice

Airchive is the controller of personal information collected through the main site's quiz, contribution form, privacy controls, and operational logs. To exercise a privacy right, report a concern, or ask how a record is handled, use the contribution and request form and choose "Privacy / legal request."

Airchive may ask for information reasonably necessary to verify identity and locate the relevant record. Do not include government identifiers, payment information, medical information, or other sensitive data unless Airchive specifically requests it for a lawful reason.

Airchive is a public aviation archive and editorial site. Visitors can browse aircraft pages, news coverage, longstanding reference URLs, and aircraft discussion pages without creating an account on the main site.

Airchive also operates a contribution intake that accepts moderated submissions such as corrections, memories, media, archive leads, and site feedback.

Airchive also operates a personality quiz at `/quiz`. Visitors answer tap-first questions and must enter a valid email address before the results page is revealed.

The public site may process standard delivery and security data such as IP address, browser and device details, requested URLs, timestamps, referrer information, and infrastructure logs needed to keep the site available and abuse-resistant.

Analytics is off by default. If you explicitly allow analytics, Airchive loads Google Analytics 4 and records pseudonymous measurement data such as page views, route changes, content selections, search activity, and basic device or browser metadata.

Airchive also stores a local browser preference so the site can remember whether you accepted or rejected analytics. That preference is stored in browser storage rather than in an account profile.

If you use the quiz, Airchive processes the email address you enter, the answer summary, and the aircraft matches generated from those answers. The site also uses session storage in the current browser so the result can be carried from the email gate to the results screen without sending a confirmation email.

If you use the contribution form, Airchive processes the contact details, submission content, and any attachment you provide so the material can be reviewed.

Airchive uses infrastructure and security data to deliver the site, prevent abuse, debug outages, and protect archive integrity. Where analytics is enabled, Airchive uses aggregated measurement to understand which pages are useful, where navigation breaks down, and which editorial surfaces need improvement.

For visitors in the EEA, UK, or similar jurisdictions, Airchive relies on consent for optional analytics and legitimate interests for core hosting, security, and operational logging. For visitors in U.S. states with privacy laws, Airchive uses this notice to explain data practices and makes analytics opt-in rather than opt-out on the public site.

Quiz processing is used to provide the result screen you asked Airchive to generate and to store the email-linked quiz entry for later editorial or audience-workflow use. Airchive does not send a confirmation email as part of this flow.

Contribution-review processing is used to run the service you asked Airchive to provide. That includes abuse prevention, rights review, moderation decisions, and communicating about the submission when needed.

Airchive uses AWS for hosting and delivery. If analytics is enabled, Google receives measurement data as the analytics provider. Airchive does not run cross-context behavioral advertising on the public site and does not sell personal information in the ordinary meaning of that term.

Because the site is hosted and measured through providers that operate internationally, information may be processed in the United States or other countries where privacy protections differ from your home jurisdiction.

Browser-stored consent preferences remain until you change them or clear browser storage. Quiz result session storage remains only in the current browser session. New email-linked quiz records are scheduled for deletion after 24 months, and new contribution or legal-request records after five years, unless a shorter period is requested and legally appropriate or a longer period is needed for an active dispute, rights review, security investigation, or legal obligation.

Provider delivery, security, and consented analytics logs follow the applicable provider settings and may be kept for shorter operational periods. Deletion from active systems and provider backups may not occur at exactly the same moment.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, delete, correct, restrict, object to, or port personal data, and to withdraw consent where processing depends on consent. You may also have the right to complain to a supervisory or regulatory authority.

On the current public site, the main privacy control is immediate: you can turn analytics on or off at any time in Privacy Controls. Airchive also respects Global Privacy Control where the browser exposes that signal by keeping analytics off unless you later choose otherwise.

To make a request related to a quiz email, contribution, discussion reference, or another main-site interaction, use the contribution and request form and choose "Privacy / legal request." Airchive may verify identity before disclosing, correcting, or deleting a record and will respond within the period required by applicable law.

Airchive is not designed for children under 13 and does not knowingly operate a child-directed service. Visitors who are below the age at which they may independently consent to online data processing where they live should not submit an email, quiz result, or contribution without a parent or guardian's authorization. The public site does not request precise geolocation, payment data, biometric data, or sensitive-category profiles.

Airchive updates privacy disclosures when the product or regulatory posture changes. Material changes to analytics, quiz lead handling, submissions, account features, discussion identity requirements, or advertising practices would require this notice and related policy pages to be revised before the new processing becomes the default behavior.