Privacy policy
This is the privacy policy for this site, which is the clearnet guide to the market. It is not the privacy policy of the market itself, which lives on the .onion address and is governed by its own terms. The distinction matters, because what this site does with your data and what the market does with yours are two different questions, and this page answers only the first one.
What this site stores
This site stores almost nothing. It has no account system, so there is no profile to keep. It has no newsletter signup, so there is no list to maintain. The one thing it keeps is a single counter, a small anonymous tally of page views, and the counter is the only piece of data that ties a visit to a number. If you turn off the one script that powers the counter, the site works exactly the same and the counter simply does not count you, which is the whole privacy story in one sentence.
What it does not store
It does not store your address, because the pages do not ask for it. It does not store your email, because there is no form that takes one. It does not set a tracking cookie, because the only cookie on the site is the one that remembers whether you dismissed a notice, and that cookie holds a yes or a no and nothing else. It does not share data with a third party, because there is no data to share, and the absence of a data broker is the point of the design. The site is built to be read, not to be measured, and the measurement it does do is the minimum required to know whether the pages are being read at all.
The one script
The counter runs on a single small script that loads from this site, not from a network, and it sends one number, the fact that a page was viewed, to a server that adds it to a total. The script does not read your content, it does not call home to an ad network, and it does not build a profile. If you block scripts entirely, the counter never fires and the site is unchanged, which is the test that proves the counter is optional and the site does not depend on it. The privacy of the site is the privacy of its one dependency, and the dependency is small enough to audit in an afternoon.
Your data, in short
In short, this site knows that a page was viewed and, if you choose to let it, that the view came from a browser that did not block the counter. It does not know who you are, it does not know where you are beyond what your connection reveals, and it does not sell what it does know, because there is very little of it. The policy is short because the practice is, and the practice is the only part of a privacy policy that is worth reading, so this page says what the site does and stops, which is the whole of it.
The market on Tor has its own terms and its own privacy policy, and those are the ones that govern your orders and your balance. This page is the fine print for the guide, and the market's fine print lives with the market. Reading both is the complete picture, and the two are short enough to read in the same sitting.