Privacy Policy

Edition of July 27, 2026

The short version: this site does not follow you around. No counters, no advertising, no social media buttons. Data appears only when you write to me yourself. Below is what happens to it, in plain human language.

Who is responsible for your data

My name is Dmytro Karpenko, and this is my personal site. There is no company behind it, no newsroom and no foundation — only me, a private individual, and I am personally responsible for your data. I live and work in Ukraine, so the Ukrainian law “On Personal Data Protection” applies to this data.

All questions about data go to apostle@karpenko.net. I read that mailbox myself.

What happens when you simply read the site

Almost nothing. The site is built from ready-made pages: there is no analytics here, no visitor counters, no advertising pixels, no share buttons, no embedded video and no external fonts. Nobody counts you here and nobody remembers you — neither I nor anyone on the outside.

There is one cookie. If you switch the language, that choice is remembered in a cookie named lang — it holds the language code and nothing else. Delete it in your browser and the site will go back to choosing the language from your browser settings.

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Their servers, like any web server in the world, see your IP address, your browser type and the address of the page you opened: without that a page can neither be delivered nor protected from an attack. Those technical records are not kept by me, I do not look into them and I do not match them against anything.

A small script runs on the home page — it brings the audience figures to life so that they do not appear with a jolt. It sends nothing and remembers nothing. Block it and the figures will simply stand still; they are counted in advance anyway.

Video previews on the “Video” page go through my site instead of loading straight from Google’s servers. That is deliberate: you are reading a page, not being logged by somebody else.

Links to YouTube, Telegram and other sites lead outward. The moment you follow one of them, their rules apply and not mine.

If you have written to me

You can write to me on WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage or by email. Along with the message I see what the messenger itself shows: a phone number, a name or a handle, a profile photo — and, of course, everything you decided to tell me.

Most often that is information about the person being looked for: name, military unit, the date and place of capture, photographs, documents. Sometimes your own details: how you are related to that person and how to reach you. It happens that a case includes details about children — theirs or yours; they are kept under the same rules as everything else, and they are not published.

What I need it for: to answer you and to take on your case. That is all. No advertising, no mailing lists, no selling, no decisions taken about you by a machine.

The basis is simple: you started the conversation yourself and sent this information yourself. You are not obliged to send anything.

How long all of it is kept

As long as your case needs. Looking for a person is not a matter of a week or a month: correspondence from two years ago sometimes turns out to be the missing link. So I do not set a neat formal deadline that would later have to be quietly broken.

When the case is closed and the information is no longer needed, I delete it. And at any moment before that — at your request.

Who I pass it on to

I do not sell it, do not hand it to advertisers and do not put it in the open. No “partners”.

The message itself physically passes through whoever delivers it: WhatsApp belongs to Meta, Telegram to Telegram, iMessage to Apple, and an email travels through a mail service. They handle correspondence under their own rules, and that is an unavoidable part of any correspondence on the internet.

My working WhatsApp number is connected to the WhatsApp Business platform. The practical difference is that the content of such correspondence is available to Meta as the provider of that platform — unlike an ordinary personal chat. That is worth knowing in advance, so that you choose the channel knowingly.

Information about the substance of your request I may pass on to where something can be done with it: to the state projects “I Want to Live” and “I Want to Find” of the Coordination Headquarters, and to colleagues who work on searches. Only as much as the request itself contains, and only when that is what the request is for.

And I will pass it on if Ukrainian law requires it — on an official request from law enforcement or a court.

Nothing goes on air without your permission

I run a channel, and that is public work. But neither your name, nor your message, nor a photograph you sent will appear in an episode, in a post or anywhere else until you expressly allow it.

If publishing something is needed for the search, I will ask separately and explain exactly what strangers will be able to see.

Your rights

You can ask what data of yours I hold; ask for it to be corrected or deleted; withdraw consent you gave earlier; and complain about me — in Ukraine that is handled by the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights.

Write to apostle@karpenko.net. I answer within a reasonable time, usually within a month. Sometimes I will ask you to say which correspondence you mean — not out of stubbornness: I have to be sure I am handing the data to its owner and not to someone who simply knows the number.

Security — honestly

There is no such thing as a perfectly safe channel, and promising otherwise would be a lie. WhatsApp encrypts correspondence in transit; on Telegram only secret chats work that way, ordinary ones are stored on their servers. The devices and the mailbox I work from are protected with a password and two-factor login.

If the request itself is dangerous for you or for the person you are writing about, think about which device and which network you are sending it from. This is not a formality.

If this policy changes

If I change the text, I will change the edition date at the top of the page. If the change is a substantial one, I will say so on the channel.