Effective date: 30 September 2026
The Institute studies civilizations that never existed. Its readers, however, are entirely real, and so is the information their visits leave behind. This page records what the Institute collects when you use aeondogma.com, why it does so, who else receives it, and what rights you hold over it.
1. Who is responsible
Aeon Dogma, the Institute for Fictional Civilizations, is operated by MYTHNYX, who is the data controller for this website under the General Data Protection Regulation. For any question about this policy or your data, write to us through the contact page.
2. What the Institute collects
When you read. Like every website, aeondogma.com receives technical information from your browser each time you visit a page. This includes your IP address, browser type, device type, the pages you open and the time of your visit. It is used to deliver the site, keep it secure and understand how it is used.
When you write to us. If you use the contact form, we receive the name, email address and message you choose to send. We use it only to reply to you, and to consider field evidence you submit for the archive.
When you comment. If comments are open on an Excavation and you leave one, we store the name, email address and comment you submit, together with your IP address and browser details, which help to detect spam. Your email address is never published.
What we do not collect. The Institute has no user accounts, asks for no profile information, and does not sell personal data to anyone.
3. Cookies
Cookies are small files stored by your browser. The Institute uses them for three purposes:
- Essential. To make the site work and to remember your cookie choices.
- Advertising. Set by Google and its partners to deliver and measure ads (see section 4).
- Analytics. To count visits and understand which Excavations are read, in aggregate.
Visitors from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent before advertising and analytics cookies are used. You can change your choice at any time through the privacy settings link at the bottom of every page, or by clearing cookies in your browser.
Some Excavations may contain embedded media, such as video. Embedded content behaves as if you had visited the original website, which may set its own cookies under its own privacy policy.
4. Advertising
The Institute is supported by advertising served through Google AdSense.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this website or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
- You can opt out of personalised advertising through Google’s My Ad Center. You can opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info.
- Google explains how it uses information from sites like this one at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Where you have not consented to personalised ads, Google may still show non-personalised ads, which use cookies only for purposes such as frequency capping and fraud prevention.
5. Legal basis
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Institute relies on:
- Consent, for advertising and analytics cookies. You may withdraw it at any time.
- Legitimate interests, for running and securing the website, preventing spam and answering messages.
- Legal obligation, where the law requires us to keep or disclose information.
6. Who receives your data
The Institute shares data only with the service providers needed to run the site:
- Hosting provider: Cloudflare, which stores the website and its server logs.
- Google: for advertising (AdSense) and analytics (Google Analytics).
- Other services, such as OneSignal.
We may also disclose information when required by law, or to protect the rights and safety of the Institute and its readers.
7. International transfers
Some of these providers, including Google, process data outside the European Economic Area, particularly in the United States. Such transfers are protected by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or by the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.
8. How long data is kept
- Contact messages are kept for as long as needed to respond, and are deleted within 12 months unless they become part of a published account with your permission.
- Comments remain for as long as the Excavation they belong to is published, unless you ask for their removal.
- Server logs are kept by the hosting provider for a limited period for security purposes.
- Cookies expire according to the settings of the service that placed them.
9. Your rights
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you have the right to:
- Access the personal data we hold about you.
- Correct data that is inaccurate.
- Erase your data.
- Restrict or object to how we process it.
- Receive your data in a portable format.
- Withdraw consent at any time, without affecting processing that took place before.
To exercise any of these rights, write to us through the contact page. We will reply within one month.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in the EU country where you live or work.
10. Readers in the United States
Some US states give residents the right to know what personal information is collected, to request its deletion, and to opt out of its “sale” or “sharing” for targeted advertising. The Institute does not sell personal information for money. Advertising cookies may count as “sharing” under some state laws. You can opt out through the privacy settings link at the bottom of every page, through Google’s My Ad Center, or by enabling Global Privacy Control in your browser.
11. Children
The Institute’s archive is written for adult readers and is not directed at children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
12. Security
The Institute uses reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data, including encrypted connections (HTTPS). No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we work to keep your information safe.
13. External links
Excavations often cite sources on other websites. The Institute is not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites, and encourages you to read their policies.
14. Changes to this policy
When this policy changes, the revised version will be published on this page with a new effective date. Significant changes will be noted at the top of the page.
