Privacy policy

Ads, analytics and Clarity load by default

Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and Adsterra start on the first page view, without waiting for a click. The cookie banner is a notice with two buttons, not a gate: Accept keeps them on, Reject turns them off. Reject writes ad_storage: "denied" into the key below, removes the Clarity and Adsterra tags from the page, tells Google's Consent Mode to deny the three ad signals, then reloads the document to stop already running third-party code; the choice is remembered for 180 days. Cookie settings in the footer reopens the banner at any time. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, the site records denied before the banner appears.

Storage we set

Key rdg_consent_v1 in browser storage, kept for 180 days. It records four signals (ad storage, ad user data, ad personalization, analytics storage) and the time it was written, so the banner does not ask again on every page. Key rdg_adbar_closed records that you hid the Adsterra Social Bar, also for 180 days, so the bar does not return on the next page view. Neither key is sent to a server by us; both live in your browser and you can delete them in the browser settings. We do not sell personal information. Do Not Track is not a signal we can read reliably, which is why Global Privacy Control is handled explicitly.

Google Analytics 4 (G-HW902XCBDC)

Purpose: count page views and see which guide pages are read, so the writing effort goes where the readers are. Loaded on arrival. Google Analytics can set _ga and _ga_HW902XCBDC cookies; Google documents a default expiry of two years, subject to browser limits and property configuration. Consent Mode starts with analytics storage granted, all three advertising signals denied, and ads data redaction enabled. The site's loader then applies the saved choice, or granted when no choice exists. Reject keeps analytics measurement on and denies advertising signals for 180 days. Retention depends on the property settings; this policy does not claim a separately verified property retention period. Google's own policy: policies.google.com/privacy.

Microsoft Clarity (project zcx0e0w49y)

Purpose: heatmaps and session recordings that show where a page is hard to use. Loaded on arrival from www.clarity.ms; Microsoft may also request its collection and script hosts, including c.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms and c.bing.com. Microsoft documents _clck and _cls for browser and session continuity and may use Microsoft-domain identifiers such as MUID and ANONCHK. Cookie expiry and recording retention follow Microsoft's current documentation and project configuration. We do not claim a separate audit of this project's masking or retention settings. Reject saves denied and reloads the document, stopping the running recording instance and preventing it from loading on subsequent visits for 180 days. Microsoft's policy: privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement.

Adsterra (publisher 3403020)

Purpose: show the ads that pay for the guide. The site carries two Adsterra units: NativeBanner_1 (unit id 32248440, in-feed native widget) and SocialBar_1 (unit id 32248441, the floating bar at the bottom of the page). Both load on arrival and are created by the site's own script, so no ad script blocks the first paint. Adult ads are switched off in the Adsterra panel for this website. Cookies and identifiers: Adsterra and the creative hosts it uses (for example bicea.org) set a session/user identifier and frequency-cap cookies to count an impression once and to limit repeats; their names and lifetime are determined by the network and each creative; no fixed lifetime has been independently established here. Reject withdraws the site’s default-on advertising choice. Leaving the default on is not described here as an affirmative consent action. Reject removes both units and denies the ad signals for 180 days. Adsterra's policy: adsterra.com/privacy-policy. Personalized-ad controls for the wider web: Google ads settings, DAA opt-out, Your Online Choices.

YouTube, only after Play

Video buttons use a picture hosted here. Pressing Play creates a player from youtube-nocookie.com. From that moment YouTube can set its own cookies and read the embed. Purpose: show the hunt or the walkthrough you asked for. Retention: YouTube's policy. The click requests that player. Before the click, that host is not requested.

Rights, choices and changes

Email [email protected] to ask what we hold (the two browser keys above, which we cannot see on a server), to correct a factual page, or to object to a processing purpose. We reply from that address. You can also clear the keys in your browser at any time; the banner will then appear again on the next visit and the default applies. We change this page in the same release as any change to what loads, and the date below moves with it. The last reading of the site's own behaviour was 13 Nov 2026.