Privacy.
This site collects no identifying information.

What this site collects

Nothing identifying. The site is a set of static HTML pages served over HTTPS from Namecheap shared hosting (LiteSpeed server). There is no login form, no newsletter signup, no contact form, no comment system. Verify the host yourself: the response headers on any page report server: LiteSpeed.

Standard server logs (IP address, request path, timestamp, user-agent) are written by the hosting layer for operational reasons. These are not read, aggregated, or shared by the site author. Namecheap retains them per its own policy.

What this site stores

No cookies are set by the site. No fingerprinting, no session ID, and no analytics: no script on any page counts or tracks visits. The only record of a visit is the host’s standard server log, described above.

Values are written to localStorage on your own device. All of them are inspectable in any browser's dev tools and none of them ever leave your browser:

• theme: "light" or "dark". Lets the site render in the mode you last chose so the page does not flash the wrong color.
• Calculator inputs. The interactive tools (tax estimator, portfolio X-ray, DCA, cost-basis tracker, and the other calculators) save the values you enter to localStorage so your numbers are still there when you return or reload, and so a shareable link can reproduce them. This is convenience state on your device: it is never transmitted to any server. A share link is the one exception: it puts your inputs in the page address, so opening that link sends them to the host as part of the request, where they sit in the standard server log. Clear it any time in dev tools or via Clear Site Data, and avoid entering data you would not want kept on a shared computer.
• Quiz results and checklists. The Start Here quiz saves your last result and the steps you tick off, and the sovereignty checklist saves your ticks, so they are there when you return.

Everything above is written client-side, by the site's own JavaScript, and never leaves your browser. A service worker also keeps copies of the pages and files you open in the browser’s Cache Storage, so the site still loads on a weak connection. Clear it in dev tools or via Clear Site Data.

Third-party requests

This site makes no third-party network requests. Every file a page loads, from the HTML to the fonts, scripts, stylesheets, images and data, comes from fiatisfake.org. There is no analytics script.

The Bitcoin price in the header comes from the site’s own data file, /data/btc-tip.json, updated when the site’s data files are refreshed, and shows the date of that close. Your browser contacts no price service. Earlier versions of the header asked CoinGecko, Coinbase, CryptoCompare or mempool.space for a live price; the old btc_price_v2 entry that cached it is deleted on your next visit.

Everything is self-hosted: fonts (Inter + Space Mono woff2), JavaScript libraries (Chart.js and qrcode-generator), stylesheets, and all data files. Your browser makes zero requests to Google, Cloudflare, or any CDN.

To check, open your browser’s developer tools, choose the Network tab and reload any page: every request goes to fiatisfake.org. A data: row is a background texture built into the stylesheet, not a request to anywhere; anything else listed there comes from your own browser extensions.

What stays on your device

Every tool on the site runs entirely client-side. Numbers you type into the tax estimator, the FIRE calculator, the DCA tool, or any of the other calculators are processed in your browser and never sent to any server. To keep your work between visits, most tools save what you enter to localStorage on your own device (see "What this site stores" above): that copy stays on the device and is never transmitted. It is not logged or seen by the site author. A copied share link carries your inputs in its address, so opening it sends them to the host, where they sit in the standard server log described above.

Verify this in dev tools: open the Network panel, type into any tool, and observe that no POST or GET requests fire in response. To confirm the on-device copy, open the Application → Local Storage panel and clear it whenever you like.

Your rights

The site itself collects no personal data: no account, no form, no analytics. The one exception is the IP address in the host’s standard server log, which Namecheap keeps under its own policy and the site author does not read, so there is nothing for the site to export, correct, or delete. GDPR, CCPA, and similar frameworks apply primarily to controllers of personal data; a static publisher that collects none has nothing to surrender on request.

If you arrived at this page expecting a long list of rights backed by boilerplate clauses, the absence is the point. You cannot exercise a right over data that was never collected.

Questions or concerns

Email hello@fiatisfake.org. Replies are written and plain-text. The site owner does not store or index messages beyond what the email provider retains.