Trust & Legal
Privacy Policy
Learn Dark Web collects almost nothing about its visitors. This page says exactly what it does collect, what it does not, and what you control.
The short version
No accounts, no logins, no sign-ups. No advertising and no affiliate trackers at launch. Analytics runs only after you accept cookies — and with consent denied, it sets no cookies and sends no identifying data. The site's search runs entirely in your browser. The only personal data you can give us is an email you choose to send us. We sell no data and share no data with third parties, except Google Analytics after you consent.
Who we are
This site, Learn Dark Web, is an independent education project run from Pakistan. The operator is Abdul Hannan, editor of the site. If you need to reach us about privacy, email hola@learndarkweb.online.
Analytics: Google Analytics (GA4), consent first
We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to understand, in aggregate, how the site is used — which pages are read, which guides people arrive from, and what people search for. Analytics runs on Google's consent mode v2, and consent is denied by default.
That means: until you accept cookies in the cookie banner, GA4 sets no cookies and sends no identifying data. If you accept, GA4 may set cookies and collect usage data in the way Google Analytics describes — aggregate, anonymised usage statistics, not your name or email. You can change your mind at any time using the "Cookie settings" link in the site footer, which re-opens the banner. You can also block Google Analytics in your browser at any time.
We do not use any other analytics service, and we do not connect analytics data to any individual visitor.
Cookies and local storage
Zero cookies until you accept. Before you accept the cookie banner, this site sets no cookies at all.
The site's local storage — data stored in your own browser, never sent to us — holds only two things: your cookie choice, so the banner does not keep asking, and, later, your lesson progress, so a learning path can remember where you stopped. Nothing else is stored, and your local storage is never read by us.
Search runs locally
The site's search runs entirely in your browser, over a search index loaded from this same site. Your search query never leaves the site: it is not sent to us, not sent to Google or any other third party, and not logged anywhere.
Email: the only personal data you can give us
The only personal data a visitor can give us is an email they choose to send to hola@learndarkweb.online — for example, to report a correction, ask a question, or send a research tip. That email contains whatever you put in it: your name and address if you include them, and the contents of your message. We read it, we reply if a reply is needed, and we do not share it, sell it, or add it to any mailing list. There is no newsletter and no mailing list at launch.
We do not ask for personal data anywhere else on the site. There is no contact form, no account registration, no comment system and no login of any kind.
What we do not collect
- No accounts, logins or passwords of any kind.
- No payment details — we sell nothing.
- No advertising trackers and no affiliate trackers at launch.
- No location data, no device fingerprinting, and no data bought from data brokers.
- No information from children. The site is educational information for general readers; it is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone.
What our tools do with your input
The free learning tools on this site — the password checker, the hash and encoding demonstrations, the ciphers and quizzes — run entirely in your browser. What you type into them stays on your device. Passwords, text and quiz answers are never uploaded, logged or sent anywhere.
Third parties and links
We share no data with third parties, except Google Analytics after you consent, as described above. The site links to external sources — the Tor Project, NIST, CISA, CVE.org and others — so readers can check our sources. Following one of those links takes you to a different website with its own privacy policy, which we do not control.
Data retention and your rights
Analytics data, when you consent, is retained according to Google Analytics' own settings. Emails you send us are kept only as long as needed to deal with the matter you wrote about. If you emailed us and want your message deleted, write to the same address and ask — we will delete it.
Changes to this policy
If the site starts collecting anything new — for example, if advertising or affiliate links are added, or if a newsletter begins — this page will be updated first, and the "last updated" date at the top will change. The policy will always describe the site as it actually is.
Last updated: 2026-11-14.