1. What this site records
Darknet Drug Market is an independent research and security-awareness project. The goal is to inform analysts, journalists and security teams — not to track individual visitors. We gather only the data we genuinely need to operate the site.
- Server access logs: standard request logs containing IP address, timestamp, request URL, user agent and referrer. These are kept for a short rolling window strictly for abuse mitigation and capacity planning.
- Aggregated statistics: anonymous counts of pageviews and search queries, used to gauge interest across topics. No personal identifiers are retained.
- Form submissions: the content you submit through the contact or comment form. No data is received by us until you submit the form.
2. What this site does not collect
- Visitor data is not sold, rented out or shared with any ad network.
- We do not embed third-party trackers or run any browser-fingerprinting scripts.
- You do not need an account, login session or wallet address to browse the catalog.
- We do not record the .onion sites you visit outside this domain — that information stays between you and Tor.
3. Cookies and browser storage
Cookies are used only where strictly required — for instance, a session cookie when you submit a form, or a preference cookie when you toggle a UI option. We do not set advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. You can clear cookies at any time without losing access.
4. Outside services we use
A few third-party services support the site for technical reasons:
- Hosting and CDN: our hosting provider processes incoming traffic to deliver pages. They see the same data as the access logs above.
- Web fonts: web fonts come from Google Fonts, so your browser may share its IP with Google during loading. If you would rather avoid this, blocking third-party fonts is fine — system fonts keep the site readable.
- Search engines: major search engines index the site so that researchers can discover it. Anything those engines record about you is outside our control.
5. Children
Darknet Drug Market is intended for adult professional and academic audiences. The site is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect data from minors. If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, please do not use this site.
6. Visitor rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may be entitled to access, correct or erase any personal data we hold about you and to object to certain processing. Because we collect very little personal data on purpose, there is rarely anything identifiable for us to act on. If you have submitted a form and want your data removed, reach out via the link below.
7. Safeguards
We apply reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect data, including HTTPS for all traffic, hardened server configuration and regular monitoring. No online service can guarantee absolute security, so please apply your own operational hygiene when corresponding with us — especially over the public internet.
8. Policy revisions
We may revise this policy occasionally to reflect technology, regulation or operational changes. Material updates will be marked here with a refreshed "Last updated" date. Using the site after a change means you accept the new terms.
9. Get in touch
Questions about privacy or data handling can be sent through our contact form with a relevant subject. We respond in a reasonable timeframe and never repurpose submissions for marketing.