What these sites know about you

This policy covers virtualworldarchive.org and every wiki on a subdomain of it. Last updated 12 November 2026.

Who runs the archive

The Virtual World Archive is run by Wiles Creative Studio. Questions about this policy, or requests about your data, go to contact@virtualworldarchive.org.

Reading the sites

You can read everything without an account. When you do, three kinds of information are handled.

Visit statistics. We count page views with Umami, an analytics tool we host ourselves. It sets no cookies and builds no profile of you. It records the page, the referring site, and your browser, device type and country in a form that cannot be traced back to a person.
Server logs. Like every web server, ours record the address a request came from, the page asked for and the time. We use the logs to keep the sites running and to stop abuse.
Fonts. The sites load typefaces from Google Fonts, so your browser contacts Google to fetch them. Google's privacy policy covers that request.

Advertising

Parts of the archive may show advertising to help pay for hosting. Advertising is provided by Ezoic. Where its scripts are loaded, Ezoic and its partners may set cookies and use information about your visit to choose and measure adverts, and you are asked for your consent where the law requires it. You can change your choice at any time from the consent notice.

Ezoic's own disclosure, including the partners it works with and how to opt out, follows and is also at g.ezoic.net/privacy/virtualworldarchive.org.

Accounts and editing on the wikis

Editing a wiki needs an account. An account holds a username and a password, which is stored only in scrambled form. One account works on every wiki in the archive.

Everything you contribute is public and permanent by design: each edit is kept in the page's history with your username and the time. Do not put personal information about yourself or anyone else into an article.

The wikis set cookies only to keep you signed in and to remember your preferences.

Children

The archive is a historical reference about online games, written for a general audience. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has given us personal information, write to contact@virtualworldarchive.org and we will remove it.

Where the data is kept

The main site is served by Cloudflare. The wikis and their databases are on a server in Finland. Visit statistics are kept on a second server that we run ourselves. We do not sell personal information.

Your choices

You can ask what we hold about you, ask for an account to be closed, or ask for personal information to be removed, by writing to contact@virtualworldarchive.org. Edits already made stay in page histories, credited to the username.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is posted here with a new date.