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# Privacy

The short version: **adna.network collects nothing about you.** No accounts,
no analytics, no advertising, no cookies, no tracking. It is a static, open-source
website — and the longer version below is written so you can verify every word.

## What we collect

**Nothing.** There are no sign-ups, no forms, no comment boxes, and no login.
We run no analytics (no Google Analytics, no Plausible, no Fathom — none), set no cookies,
and load no advertising or tracking pixels. Your browser makes **no third-party
requests** when you read these pages: the fonts are served from adna.network itself,
and there are no embedded widgets, iframes, or remote scripts.

## The one thing stored in your browser

If you switch between light and dark mode, we save that single preference — the word
`theme` — in your browser's `localStorage` so the site remembers your
choice on your next visit. It never leaves your device, is never sent to us or anyone else,
and you can clear it any time through your browser. That is the only thing the site stores,
and it exists purely to serve you, not to identify you.

## Performance measurement (stays on your device)

The site runs a small script that measures how fast each page loads *in your own
browser* — standard web performance numbers like "how long until the largest element
painted". Today those numbers are **not sent anywhere**: they exist only in the
page's memory while it is open and are discarded when you leave. Nothing in them identifies
you, and nothing is stored. If we ever start collecting these numbers in aggregate to watch
site performance — a change we may make — we will update this page before that ships, per the
commitment below.

## Hosting & server logs

The site is a set of pre-built static files hosted on **Vercel**. Like every
web host, Vercel processes the standard technical metadata your browser sends with any
request — your IP address and user-agent — to actually deliver the pages and to keep the
service secure and available. We do not receive, store, or analyse that data ourselves, and
we do not combine it with anything else. Vercel's handling of it is governed by
[Vercel's privacy policy](https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy).

## Your aDNA vault stays yours

aDNA is an open standard for plain-Markdown, **local-first** knowledge vaults.
A vault you build with aDNA lives on your own machine and is never pushed anywhere unless
you choose to configure a remote. Nothing about your vault — its contents, structure, or
the credential *names* it indexes — is transmitted to us by using this site or the
standard. This site is documentation; it is not a service that ingests your data.

## Links to other sites

We link out to places like GitHub, the projects in the network, and the tools aDNA composes
with. Once you follow a link, you are on someone else's site under their own privacy terms —
we have no control over, and take no responsibility for, how they handle your data.

## Questions or corrections

This is an open-source project. If you have a privacy question — or you think
something on this page is inaccurate — open an
[issue](https://github.com/aDNA-Network/aDNA/issues) on the canonical repository and
a maintainer will follow up in the open.

Published by aDNA Network. Last updated 2026-08-28. If this posture ever changes — for
example, if aggregate, privacy-respecting analytics are ever added — we will update this page
before the change ships, and note it in the site changelog.