Last updated: November 10, 2026
VA-List.com ("we", "us" or "our") is the Virtual Airline List, run by Quizvds. This policy explains which information we collect when you use va-list.com ("the Website"), why, and the choices you have. For any question write to admin@va-list.com.
1. Information we collect
1.1 Information you give us
- Pilot account: your first and last name, your email address and your password. We store the password only in encrypted form, so nobody can read it.
- Log in with Google: if you choose it, Google tells us your name and your email address and confirms that the email is yours. We use them only to open your VA-List account, or to create your pilot account if you don't have one yet. We never receive your Google password.
- Airline account: the airline's name, slogan, description, website, country, simulators and operations, its banner and screenshots, the name of the CEO, the account email and password.
- Votes: the airline you vote for, your account email, the date and the IP address of your internet connection. We keep them until the end of the month, when the votes are reset.
- Reviews: the text you write and your name, which are shown on the airline's public profile.
- Messages: your name, email address and message when you write to us from the contact page.
- Applications to join an airline: your name, email address, simulator, experience and message when you apply from the Join button of a Premium airline. We send them by email to that airline, which also sees them in its dashboard.
- Premium payments: the airline, the plan, the amount, the date, the PayPal reference and the name and email address of the person who paid; for a gift, also the name you write, which the airline sees. Payments go through PayPal: we never see or store card or bank details.
1.2 Information collected automatically
- Your IP address, browser and the pages you open, in the technical logs of our servers.
- Visits to airline profiles and clicks to their websites, counted month by month without knowing who you are, for the airlines' monthly report.
- The IP address of failed log ins, sign-ups and messages, to stop abuse. We keep these records for up to 90 days.
- Login codes and password links, stored only in coded form. They expire after 30 minutes (codes) or 1 hour (links).
- Visit statistics from Google Analytics: pages you open, device and approximate area, never your name or email. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland only if you accept in the banner; elsewhere unless you refuse them from "Cookie settings" at the bottom of every page.
2. How we use your information
- To run the list, the monthly vote, the hall of fame and the airline profiles.
- To log you in securely: after your password we email you a 6-digit code, or Google confirms it's you if you log in with Google.
- To send the emails the service needs: account activation, login codes, password links and replies to your messages.
- To keep the vote fair and the Website safe, finding and removing fraudulent votes and accounts.
- To communicate with you, including for customer service and promotional purposes, and to improve the Website.
3. What is public
Airline profiles, the monthly ranking and pilot reviews are public. Reviews show the name of the pilot who wrote them. If an airline adds the VA-List bot to its Discord server, its new reviews are also posted there, with the pilot's name. Votes, emails and IP addresses are never shown.
The Live page shows flights by listed airlines from the public VATSIM and IVAO data feeds: callsign, route, aircraft and position. We never store pilot names or network IDs. The snapshot is replaced every 2 minutes; for airlines with Premium we also keep a record of their flights (callsign, route, aircraft and times) for six months, to count them in the monthly report and to post them in the airline's Discord.
4. Sharing your information
We do not sell or rent your personal information. We share it only with:
- Cloudflare, which delivers and protects the Website and runs the security check on our forms;
- Brevo, which sends our emails;
- PayPal, which handles Premium payments;
- Discord, when an airline adds the VA-List bot to its Discord server: its new reviews, with the pilot's name, are posted there;
- the airline you apply to, which receives your application;
- Google, if you log in with Google: it confirms who you are, and it knows that you used your Google account to log in to VA-List;
- Google, for the visit statistics (Google Analytics), as you choose in the banner. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services;
- the company that hosts our servers;
- legal authorities, if the law requires it or to protect our rights.
Some airline banners and images are loaded from the airlines' own websites, which receive your IP address when your browser shows them.
5. How long we keep it
Votes until the end of the month; security records up to 90 days; applications to join an airline for 12 months; payment records for as long as accounting law requires; your account and what you published until you ask us to delete them; messages for as long as we need to answer them.
6. Data security
We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your information: encrypted passwords, a code by email at every log in, encrypted connections and limits on repeated attempts.
7. Your rights
You can ask to access, correct or delete your personal information, and to object to or restrict its use. Write to admin@va-list.com. You also have the right to complain to the data protection authority of your country.
8. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. Changes are published on this page with a new date.
9. Contact us
For any question about this policy, write to admin@va-list.com.