Last updated: 14 August 2026
Who we are
This website is russian-oligarchs.com. You can reach the site operator at admin@russian-oligarchs.com.
What data we process
Server logs. Our hosting provider records technical access data (IP address, browser identifier, time of request) to operate and secure the site. These logs are kept for a limited period and are not used to identify individual readers.
Google Analytics 4. We use Google Analytics to understand which pages are read. For visitors from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google’s tag runs in consent mode: no analytics cookies are set and no identifiers are stored unless you accept statistics cookies in the cookie banner. You can withdraw consent at any time via the cookie settings.
Self-hosted analytics. We additionally count page views with a self-hosted, cookieless tool. It sets no cookies, stores no cross-site identifiers and its data never leaves our server.
Cookies
Which cookies are used, and how you can accept or refuse them, is described in our Cookie Policy.
Comments and contact
Comments are disabled on this site. If you contact us by email, we process the data you send us solely to answer your message.
External content and links
Articles link to external sources (for example Forbes, government sanction lists and news outlets) and may display individual images hosted by third parties. When your browser loads such an image, your IP address is transmitted to that provider. Linked websites are governed by their own privacy policies.
Your rights
If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, you have the right to access, correct, delete and receive the personal data we hold about you, to restrict or object to its processing, and to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. California residents have comparable rights under the CCPA; we do not sell personal information. To exercise any of these rights, email admin@russian-oligarchs.com.
Changes
We will update this policy when the site’s data processing changes and revise the date at the top of this page.
Analytics with Dackel Analytics
This website uses Dackel Analytics, a self-hosted analytics plugin, to measure how the site is used. It uses no cookies and no local storage, and it does not store or read any information on your device.
What is processed?
- The page URL you requested (query parameters that may carry sensitive values, such as e-mail addresses or tokens, are stripped before storage)
- The referring URL (the page you came from)
- Browser, operating system and device type (derived from the user agent)
- An anonymised portion of your IP address (IPv4: the final octet is set to 0; IPv6: the lower 80 bits are set to 0 — a full IP address is never stored)
- Approximate location (country, sometimes region or city) resolved locally via a GeoIP database (DB-IP Lite or MaxMind GeoLite2)
- Time spent on the page and scroll depth
- UTM campaign parameters and advertising click IDs, where present in the URL
- An anonymous visitor identifier (a SHA-256 HMAC of the anonymised subnet, browser family and a secret salt that rotates daily — it cannot be reversed to identify a person)
Where the data is stored, and for how long
All data is processed solely in this website’s own database. Nothing is transmitted to third-party analytics services. Records are deleted automatically after 365 days.
Opt-out signals we honour
If your browser sends the DNT (Do Not Track) header or a Global Privacy Control signal, no data is collected at all. Both signals are respected automatically — you do not need to contact us.
Your California privacy rights (CCPA/CPRA)
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended, the categories of personal information collected here are identifiers (an anonymised network address and a non-reversible visitor identifier), internet or other electronic network activity information (pages viewed, referring page, time on page) and coarse geolocation (country, sometimes region or city). This information is collected for analytics purposes only.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. No personal information is disclosed to third parties for their own purposes, and none of it is used for profiling or automated decision-making.
We honour the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal: if your browser or extension sends it, no data is collected. The same applies to the Do Not Track header.
You may request access to, or deletion of, information relating to you. Note that the data is anonymised before storage and is not linked to your name, account or e-mail address, so in most cases we cannot identify which records — if any — relate to you. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any privacy right.
Residents of other US states with comparable privacy laws (including Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah and Texas) have equivalent rights, which we apply in the same way.
Optional third-party data flows (depending on configuration)
- Google Search Console: if the Search Console integration is enabled, the plugin retrieves your own site’s aggregated search performance data from Google once a day. No visitor data is sent to Google — only your property URL, for authentication.
- Alert webhooks: if anomaly alerts are enabled, summary figures (site name, affected metric, deviation) are sent to the webhook provider you configured (Slack, Discord, Telegram or a generic endpoint). No visitor data is included.
- GeoIP database updates: the plugin downloads an updated GeoIP database from DB-IP or MaxMind once a month. No visitor data is sent to these providers — only the database file is fetched.
Administrator activity log
Actions taken by administrators of this plugin (settings changes, plugin activation, management of goals, funnels and API tokens) are recorded with a timestamp, the user login and the IP address. This is done on the basis of legitimate interests, to keep administrative changes auditable. These records are deleted automatically after 90 days.
Anonymous visitor properties (custom dimensions)
If the custom dimensions feature is in use, additional anonymous properties may be stored per visitor (for example reader_type=pro). Personal data is technically excluded from these values: the plugin rejects anything that looks like an e-mail address, bank account number, telephone number or payment card number.