Privacy policy

On a first visit there is no stored choice, so we treat measurement, session replay and advertising as granted. Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and the two Adsterra units start with the page itself, before you click anything. The banner still appears on that first visit: it is notice and a way to withdraw, not a gate.

Pressing Reject stops the Clarity recorder and both Adsterra units, removes the GA4 tag, sets the Google advertising consent signals to denied, and stores the denied choice in localStorage for 180 days. Pressing Accept records an explicit grant. Cookie settings in the footer reopens the banner so the choice can be changed at any time. If the browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, we treat that as Reject and do not show the banner.

The first page view may already have contacted a vendor before Reject is pressed. Reject reloads the page with the saved denied choice to end already-running vendor scripts and prevent new vendor loading; it does not delete cookies another site has already set.

GA4 measures aggregate traffic: page path, referrer, approximate location derived from the request, device and browser type, and interaction events such as scroll or outbound clicks. We use it to decide which guides need work. We do not send names, email addresses or account identifiers to GA4, and the page starts with Google advertising consent signals denied. Account-level Google Signals and retention settings are not confirmed by this policy. The gtag consent default in the page keeps analytics_storage granted and the three advertising signals denied; Reject updates the advertising signals to denied and removes the tag. Google may process measurements outside the EEA under its own safeguards.

Clarity records clicks, scroll depth, taps, page rendering and, where the browser allows it, mouse movement, together with the page address and a device/browser profile. Text typed into form fields is masked by Clarity's default rules; this site has no account, checkout or comment form. Recordings are used only to improve layout and navigation. Reject removes the Clarity tag and reloads the page with a saved rejection, ending the running recorder and preventing it from loading again. Microsoft's privacy statement is at privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement.

We serve display advertising through Adsterra (publisher 3403020, website 6185263): a Native Banner inside the article flow (unit 32160986) and a fixed Social Bar at the bottom of the viewport (unit 32160988). Both invoker scripts load from bicea.org; the selected creative may contact additional Adsterra delivery hosts. Adult ads are disabled in the publisher configuration for this site.

Adsterra and its partners may use cookies and similar identifiers on their own domains to choose a creative, cap how often you see it, prevent fraud and measure clicks. We do not receive or store those identifiers. You can opt out of personalised advertising through Google Ads Settings, DAA, Your Online Choices or NAI; Adsterra describes its own processing at adsterra.com/privacy-policy. These are industry tools, not operated by this site. Reject stops the units here but does not delete cookies another site has already set.

Some guide pages offer a video. The page shows a still image and a Play button; the YouTube frame is created only after that click, using www.youtube-nocookie.com. YouTube may then set cookies and receive playback and device data under Google's privacy policy. If you never press Play, no YouTube frame is requested.

This site uses the default loading behaviour described above for measurement, session replay and advertising. The first-visit notice does not mean that you have clicked Accept. You can withdraw consent at any time with Reject or Cookie settings; withdrawal does not affect processing that already happened.

Our own consent record expires after 180 days, after which the banner can appear again and the default applies. The ad-bar close record also expires after 180 days. Vendor retention follows the periods described above and each vendor's own policy; we have not completed a site-specific audit of every vendor setting. We do not run a server-side account or profile.

You can ask what we hold, request correction, or object to processing by writing to [email protected]. You may also complain to your local data-protection authority. The site operator can be reached at the domain contact address above. International processing and transfer terms are described by each vendor in its linked privacy statement.

We update the date on this page when the vendor list or our storage changes. Questions about this policy: [email protected]. This is an unofficial fan guide and is not operated by Grinding Gear Games.