Privacy.
What this site collects. Nothing.
Fiat Is Fake is a static content site. There is no sign-up, no account, no newsletter, no advertising tracker, no cookie that identifies you. This page lists every data flow the site can produce, so a reader can verify it independently.
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. The one analytics request is Plausible (detailed under Third-party requests below): cookie-free page-view counting that stores nothing on your device and cannot identify you.
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.btc_price_v2: the latest Bitcoin price and 24-hour change, plus a timestamp. A successful price is reused for 60 seconds; if every provider fails, that failure is remembered for 5 minutes so blocked or offline browsers stop retrying on every page load.- Calculator inputs. The interactive tools (tax estimator, portfolio X-ray, DCA, cost-basis tracker, and the other calculators) save the values you enter to
localStorageso 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. 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.
Everything above is written client-side, by the site's own JavaScript, and never leaves your browser. Clear it in dev tools or via Clear Site Data.
Third-party requests
This site makes only two categories of third-party network requests:
plausible.io. No personal data collected. Their privacy policy.Everything else is self-hosted: fonts (Inter + Space Mono woff2), JavaScript libraries (Chart.js, Fuse.js, qrcode-generator, D3), stylesheets, and all data files. Your browser makes zero requests to Google, Cloudflare, or any CDN.
If zero third-party requests are required, block Plausible and the four price hosts above (CoinGecko, Coinbase, CryptoCompare, mempool.space); the content renders identically, minus the live BTC price.
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.
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
Because the site collects no personal data, there is nothing to request, 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.
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Last updated 2026-07-02.