Privacy
Privacy
This site has no accounts, no advertising and no analytics cookies. The privacy surface is deliberately small.
Language and location
Cloudflare provides a coarse two-letter country code for the request so the site can choose Chinese or English by default. We do not ask for GPS, do not store a visitor’s precise location, and do not use the country code for profiling.
A language choice is stored in a first-party cookie named locale for up to one year. You can clear it in your browser at any time.
Third parties
Map tiles come from OpenFreeMap and map data from OpenStreetMap; loading the map sends a request to those services. Reports, videos and other links open the original publisher, which has its own privacy policy. We do not embed third-party video players by default.
Local accounts and images
Local testimonies are public posts presented with context. We default to masking ordinary commenters’ names and avatars, keep the original link for verification, and honour removal requests. Original unredacted files stay in the private research folder.
Server logs and contact
Cloudflare processes standard request logs as the hosting provider. We do not run a separate visitor-tracking service. For privacy questions or removal requests, use the corrections page.