Privacy Notice

Airchive is a public aviation archive and editorial site. Visitors can browse aircraft pages, news coverage, restored legacy URLs, and forum entry hubs without creating an account on the main site.

Airchive now operates two additional workflows: a live forum at `forum.airchive.com`, where registered community users can post and reply, and a contribution intake that accepts moderated submissions such as corrections, memories, media, archive leads, and site feedback.

The public site may process standard delivery and security data such as IP address, browser and device details, requested URLs, timestamps, referrer information, and infrastructure logs needed to keep the site available and abuse-resistant.

Analytics is off by default. If you explicitly allow analytics, Airchive loads Google Analytics 4 and records pseudonymous measurement data such as page views, route changes, content selections, search activity, and basic device or browser metadata.

Airchive also stores a local browser preference so the site can remember whether you accepted or rejected analytics. That preference is stored in browser storage rather than in an account profile.

If you use the live forum, Airchive processes account and session data needed to authenticate you, manage forum participation, moderate abuse, and keep discussion attached to specific aircraft categories. If you use the contribution form, Airchive processes the contact details, submission content, and any attachment you provide so the material can be reviewed.

Airchive uses infrastructure and security data to deliver the site, prevent abuse, debug outages, and protect archive integrity. Where analytics is enabled, Airchive uses aggregated measurement to understand which pages are useful, where navigation breaks down, and which editorial surfaces need improvement.

For visitors in the EEA, UK, or similar jurisdictions, Airchive relies on consent for optional analytics and legitimate interests for core hosting, security, and operational logging. For visitors in U.S. states with privacy laws, Airchive uses this notice to explain data practices and makes analytics opt-in rather than opt-out on the public site.

Forum account, moderation, and contribution-review processing is used to run the service you asked Airchive to provide. That includes account authentication, abuse prevention, rights review, moderation decisions, and communicating about the submission when needed.

Airchive uses AWS for hosting and delivery. If analytics is enabled, Google receives measurement data as the analytics provider. The forum stack is self-hosted by Airchive using NodeBB software on AWS infrastructure rather than a separate hosted community vendor. Airchive does not run cross-context behavioral advertising on the public site and does not sell personal information in the ordinary meaning of that term.

Because the site is hosted and measured through providers that operate internationally, information may be processed in the United States or other countries where privacy protections differ from your home jurisdiction.

Airchive keeps personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose it was collected. Browser-stored consent preferences remain until you change them or clear browser storage. Delivery, security, and analytics retention may vary by provider configuration and operational need. Forum account records and contribution submissions may be retained longer when needed for moderation history, rights review, source validation, or dispute handling.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, delete, correct, restrict, object to, or port personal data, and to withdraw consent where processing depends on consent. You may also have the right to complain to a supervisory or regulatory authority.

On the current public site, the main privacy control is immediate: you can turn analytics on or off at any time in Privacy Controls. Airchive also respects Global Privacy Control where the browser exposes that signal by keeping analytics off unless you later choose otherwise.

If you need to make a privacy request related to forum participation or a submission you sent, use the request channels published in the legal and compliance pages. Airchive will expand those channels further if the product scope broadens beyond the current moderated release.

Airchive is not designed for children under 13 and does not knowingly operate a child-directed service. The current public release does not include checkout, precise geolocation, payment data, biometric processing, or sensitive-category profiling.

Airchive updates privacy disclosures when the product or regulatory posture changes. Material changes to analytics, submissions, account features, forum identity requirements, or advertising practices would require this notice and related policy pages to be revised before the new processing becomes the default behavior.