Privacy

What is collected

Nothing personally identifiable. The site uses Vercel Web Analytics, which is cookieless and does not store device identifiers: no IP linking, no fingerprinting. It records page views, referrers and coarse aggregate categories (country, browser and device type) for traffic counts. That is the entire dataset. The homepage also reads the two-letter country code Vercel attaches to each request to offer a “my country” shortcut; the code is used for that one lookup and never stored.

What the site does NOT do

No account system. No email signup. No third-party ad trackers. No Google Analytics. No Facebook pixel. No fingerprinting libraries. No session replay. Climate Villains has never sold data and never will. There is none to sell.

Cookies

The site sets no tracking cookies. It uses a few optional localStorage keys to remember display preferences: your theme (cv-theme), your preferred equivalence unit (cv-equiv-pref), your country pick (cv-country) and a one-time map hint (cv-map-toast-v2). These stay in your browser; they are never sent anywhere.

Logs

Standard Vercel server logs (request URL, response status, timestamp) are retained briefly for abuse and security investigation. No request body is logged.

Third parties

Page metadata (titles, descriptions) is intentionally surfaced to search engines and social-card unfurlers. The methodology, data, and emissions figures are sourced from Climate TRACE (CC BY 4.0). When you click an external link, such as a regulatory filing or a company website, the linked site's privacy policy applies, not this one.

Your rights

Because the site holds no personal data tied to you, there is nothing to access, export, or delete. If you believe a non-personal data point on the site (an emissions number, a corporate affiliation, an investor listing) is wrong, see the “Report a correction” link on each entity page.

Contact

Email team@climatevillains.org for anything else. Last reviewed: 2026-07-03.