Privacy policy

What the pages actually load

Google Analytics 4 is the measurement vendor: the head loads gtag.js (measurement ID G-XYZMTBPPJF) and configures it under Consent Mode v2. ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization, and analytics_storage are initialized as denied and ads_data_redaction is set before gtag("config") runs. Pressing Allow updates analytics_storage alone to granted and nothing else; while it is denied GA4 sends cookieless pings only and writes no analytics cookie. Reject leaves all four denied. Advertising is gated separately, and from the same choice — see the Adsterra paragraph below.

Microsoft Clarity (clarity.ms) is the heatmap and session-recording vendor. It is not a Google tag, so Consent Mode v2 does not gate it: the page creates the Clarity snippet only after you press Allow, and Reject, Global Privacy Control, or a choice you never made means clarity.ms is never contacted and no recording script reaches the browser. Once it runs, Clarity writes the cookies _clck (about a year) and _clsk (about a day) and reports the pages you open; Clarity masks text typed into forms and other sensitive content by default.

Adsterra (bicea.org) is the advertising vendor and the only ad network on this site. No ad script is in the served HTML: the page carries the two loader URLs as plain text, and both loaders are appended — one for the in-page Native Banner (dashboard unit 31750169) and one for the floating Social Bar (unit 31750170) — only after you press Allow. Reject, Global Privacy Control, or a choice you never made means bicea.org is never contacted and no ad request is made. After Allow, Adsterra serves the creative itself and may set first-party identifiers it controls (cookies or localStorage under names Adsterra chooses); this site sets none of those, and the keys we write are bc_consent and bc-adbar-hidden. Adsterra privacy policy: https://adsterra.com/privacy-policy/. The floating bar is clamped to the viewport, never widens the page, reserves room at the end of the document so it cannot cover the footer, and can be hidden for good with Hide ad bar in the footer. The seller is declared in /ads.txt.

YouTube, operated by Google, is the optional embed provider. Its player loads only after you press the Load YouTube button. The embed uses www.youtube-nocookie.com; player scripts, thumbnails and media may also use youtube.com, i.ytimg.com, googlevideo.com and Google-owned asset hosts. The request shares your IP address and browser information with Google. Google privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. We do not receive your YouTube account.

Outbound links to Roblox, Google Play, Steam, Discord, Wikipedia, and the Apple App Store are ordinary links. They load only if you follow them. These services are not embedded in the page.

Legal basis, rights, and signals

Serving the page is our legitimate interest in publishing the guides you asked for. Analytics storage relies on consent: analytics_storage is denied until you press Allow. The Clarity heatmap and session-recording snippet waits for that consent too. Advertising runs on the same choice: the two Adsterra loaders are appended only after you press Allow, and refusing leaves them out entirely, so no ad request is made and no ad auction runs for that visit. YouTube loads on the click, which is the consent for that embed.

You can ask for access, correction, or deletion of mail you sent us, and you can object to or restrict that handling. Email [email protected]. You can also complain to your local data protection authority. We do not keep a server-side profile of browsing.

If navigator.globalPrivacyControl is true, the banner treats that as a rejection and does not upgrade consent. A Do Not Track header is not a reliable signal in current browsers; GPC is the one the page enforces.

Personalised-advertising controls for this site and for the other sites that run ads: Google Ads Settings (https://adssettings.google.com/), the DAA opt-out (https://optout.aboutads.info/), and Your Online Choices (https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/). On this site the effective control is the cookie banner itself: the Adsterra loaders are appended only after you press Allow, and Reject or Global Privacy Control keeps them out of the page completely. The seller is named in this policy and in /ads.txt (adsterra.com, 3403020, DIRECT), and the two units are listed in the table above before their scripts ship.

We change this policy by editing this page and the date in the header. The same date is the sitemap lastmod for the page.

Cloudflare is configured to forward [email protected] to our editorial Gmail mailbox. Email requests therefore pass through Cloudflare and Google; they are not a browser tracking integration. Production hosting is Cloudflare, which also serves /ads.txt.