Legal Disclaimer
The information on the website is for the purpose of education, awareness, and information only. It should not be used to commit criminal acts or harassment.
The information contained on this domain is for use in general interest matters and for only. The site will not publish any information which could be considered libelous or might break the law in its publication such as information which incites others to commit crimes. The site should not be used to commit any criminal acts or harassment. Any articles published on this website that might relate in some way to activities or people prosecuted by the law enforcement are posted for the sole purpose of news publishing and information purposes only, and are not intended to incite, support or encourage illegal acts.
As a collective we do not encourage any illegal activities. We do not support any misanthropic ideas, violent acts or oppressive ideologies. In any instance where illegal action may be referred to it is for independent media and news prepossess only and should not be considered as advocacy of such acts. DIY Conspiracy does not take any responsibility for information published by links external to the diyconspiracy.net domain.
SSL and / or TLS encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as sending us an email through our contact form, this website uses either an SSL or a TLS encryption programme. You can recognize an encrypted connection by checking whether the address line of the browser switches from http:// to https:// and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the browser line. Make sure you always have this secure connection when visiting any page of the website. Please immediately let us know if you see any http:// request on the site.
If the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Personal identification information
We may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways in connection with activities, services, features or resources we make available on our website. Users may visit our Site anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personally identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities.
Contact forms
If you fill out a contact form, we collect your full name and email address for customer service purposes only.
Newsletter
If you sign up for our weekly newsletter, your name and email address is shared with MailChimp in order to send you emails with our latest publications, news and announcements about our webzine. MailChimp does not use this data. MailChimp privacy policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
Non-Personal identification information
We collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site.
On our website, we use Jetpack Stats to collect and analyze visitor data. Jetpack Stats helps us understand overall site performance by providing information on page views, popular content, and general visitor interactions. This data is anonymized and does not personally identify individual visitors. We collect this information to improve our content, enhance user experience, and maintain site functionality. Jetpack Stats uses cookies to track data, and by using our website, you consent to this data collection. For more information, please refer to Jetpack’s Privacy Policy: https://jetpack.com/support/privacy/
Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.
Web browser cookies
Our Site serves “cookies” to enhance User experience. User’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
How long we retain your data?
For users that register on our website (contributors and regular writers, plus users in our forum), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights do you have over your data?
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Bandcamp
Our website embeds music of the website Bandcamp. The website operator is Bandcamp Inc., 178 Castro St., San Francisco, California 94114, USA.
As soon as you start to play a Bandcamp song on this website, a connection to Bandcamp’s servers will be established. As a result, the Bandcamp server will be notified, which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your Bandcamp account while you visit our site, you enable Bandcamp to directly allocate your browsing patterns to your personal profile. You have the option to prevent this by logging out of your Bandcamp account.
The use of Bandcamp is based on our interest in presenting our online content in an appealing manner. Pursuant to Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR, this is a legitimate interest. If a corresponding agreement has been requested (e.g. an agreement to the storage of cookies), the processing takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the agreement can be revoked at any time.
For more information on how Bandcamp handles user data, please consult the Bandcamp Data Privacy Policy under:
https://bandcamp.com/privacy/
YouTube
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.
If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube.
Vimeo
Our website uses features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our plugin or do not have a Vimeo account. The information is transmitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored.
If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.
For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy.
Google Web Fonts
For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
SoundCloud
On our pages, plugins of the SoundCloud social network (SoundCloud Limited, Berners House, 47-48 Berners Street, London W1T 3NF, UK) may be integrated. The SoundCloud plugins can be recognized by the SoundCloud logo on our site.
When you visit our site, a direct connection between your browser and the SoundCloud server is established via the plugin. This enables SoundCloud to receive information that you have visited our site from your IP address. If you click on the “Like” or “Share” buttons while you are logged into your SoundCloud account, you can link the content of our pages to your SoundCloud profile. This means that SoundCloud can associate visits to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it will be used by SoundCloud. For more information on SoundCloud’s privacy policy, please go to https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.
If you do not want SoundCloud to associate your visit to our site with your SoundCloud account, please log out of your SoundCloud account.
Mixcloud
On our pages, plugins of the Mixcloud network may be integrated. They can be recognized by the Mixcloud logo on our site.
The website operator is Mixcloud Limited, 96 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4RH, UK. If you are a registered user of Mixcloud they can connect your usage of our website with your profile.
If you do not want Mixcloud to associate your visit to our site with your Mixcloud account, please log out of your Mixcloud account.
For more information on Mixcloud’s privacy policy, please go to https://www.mixcloud.com/privacy/
Who We Give Information To
DIY Conspiracy does not give your information up to anybody without a valid court order or other legal justification. We do not respond to requests outside of our own jurisdiction. We will not respond to nice requests or demands for information (without legal justification). We will fight any court order or any other legally-sanctioned order if we believe it to be illegitimate.
How we protect your information
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information and data stored on our Site.
Sensitive and private data exchange between the Site and its Users happens over a SSL secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital signatures.
While we make every effort possible to insure your privacy on our servers, there are still ways that it can be violated. We can’t guarantee that nobody will hack into our servers and steal your data or that somebody isn’t listening in on your communications with us. We also can’t guarantee the physical security of our servers, that your computer hasn’t been backdoored, or that the encryption algorithms we use will be unbreakable forever. We can’t guarantee that our web host and ISP isn’t listening in or handing over your information.
Ultimately, privacy is your responsibility. If you are concerned about the above threats to your privacy and ours, then consider taking additional measures to protect it such as encrypting your hard drive, encrypting your emails, and using proxy systems like Tor.
Sharing your personal information
We do not sell, trade, or rent Users personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.
Changes to this privacy policy
DIY Conspiracy has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.
Affiliate Disclaimer
Some of our writers are participants in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program or other affiliate programs, designed to provide a means for authors to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to books, music and other products. As an Amazon Associate, the author earns from qualifying purchases.
This website may contain affiliate links, which means the author may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something that they have recommended. However, this does not impact our reviews and opinions.
Please be advised that DIY Conspiracy does not control any linked products or their prices, and any product claim, statistic, quote, or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider, or party in question.
Your acceptance of these terms
By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
Contacting us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:
[email protected]
Last updated on March 12, 2026