Privacy policy

How the site asks

The banner is a notice and a withdrawal control, not a gate. On a first visit the page loads Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and Adsterra straight away, shows the banner without recording an affirmative choice. Reject reloads the page with those tags disabled and stores the refusal for 180 days; Accept keeps them on. The footer “Cookie settings” button reopens the banner so the choice can be changed at any time. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, the site treats that as Reject. Accept records an affirmative choice; the default notice state does not record an affirmative click. Reject withdraws optional processing; the aggregate page counts we read are used only to see which guides are useful, never to build a profile of you.

What the site itself stores

Two keys, both in localStorage on this device, neither sent to us: wws_consent holds your choice (accepted or rejected) plus a timestamp and expires after 180 days; wws_adbar_closed holds {"closed":true} and a timestamp for 180 days when you press “Hide ad bar” on the Adsterra floating bar, so the bar does not reappear on the next page or the next visit. Clearing site data deletes both and the next visit is treated as new. There is no account, no newsletter, and no server-side profile.

Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Limited / Google LLC)

Loaded on every page with measurement ID G-GNE6MSNB83 through googletagmanager.com, which sends hits to *.google-analytics.com. It records page views, scroll and outbound clicks, approximate location derived from IP, device and browser, and a random client ID. Cookies: _ga (2 years) and _ga_GNE6MSNB83 (2 years), both first-party; IP addresses are not logged. Retention depends on the property settings and Google’s published policy. Purpose: count visits and see which pages are read. Google’s policy is policies.google.com/privacy, and the opt-out add-on is tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Microsoft Clarity (Microsoft Corporation)

Loaded on every page with project ID zczfl7w31o from clarity.ms, reporting to *.clarity.ms. It records heatmaps, scroll depth and anonymised session replays: clicks, taps, mouse movement and page layout. Text you type into form fields is masked by Clarity’s default masking, and this site has no input forms of its own. Cookies: _clck (1 year, visitor id), _clsk (1 day, session id) as first-party cookies. Microsoft-domain cookies may include CLID and MUID; their availability depends on browser third-party-cookie restrictions. Retention follows the project settings and Microsoft’s published Clarity policy. Purpose: see where readers get stuck. Microsoft’s policy is privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement, and Clarity data can be blocked at choice.microsoft.com.

Adsterra (Adsterra Network)

The site carries two Adsterra units, both created only after the page loads: NativeBanner_1 (unit 32251103) as an in-feed block above the footer, and SocialBar_1 (unit 32251104) as the floating bar at the bottom of the screen. Both request code from bicea.org; creatives and measurement pixels come from Adsterra’s rotating CDNs (*.show-creative1.com, *.show-sb.com, *.cloudpiko.com, *.nresystems.com). Adsterra and its demand partners may set cookies and read device signals to pick and frequency-cap an ad, and may record impressions, clicks and approximate location. Cookie names are set by the network and change per campaign, so they are not listed here; their duration is controlled by the network and campaign. Adult ads are switched off for this site at the network level. Purpose: show the ads that pay for the guides. Personalized advertising can be turned off at Google ads settings, Your Online Choices (EU) and the NAI opt-out (US); Adsterra’s own policy is at adsterra.com/privacy-policy.

YouTube (Google Ireland Limited / Google LLC)

Trailers are a still image with a Watch button; the page requests nothing from YouTube until you press it. That click creates an iframe to youtube-nocookie.com, which may then set VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC and similar playback cookies, and records the view under YouTube’s own policy at policies.google.com/privacy. Retention is YouTube’s. Purpose: play the trailer you asked for. Legal basis: your click.

Nothing else

Fonts are files served from this domain, not a Google Fonts request. There is no AdSense, no Taboola, no affiliate pixel, no social embed and no other analytics or advertising network on any page. If that changes, this list changes on the same day the tag ships.

Mail, rights, complaints

Email you send to [email protected] is read to answer you and kept as correspondence. You can ask for access, correction, portability or deletion of that correspondence, and you can object to the analytics and advertising processing described above, by writing to the same address. Reject disables optional tags in this browser; clearing the site-data entry resets the notice to its first-visit defaults. You can complain to your local data-protection authority. Changes to this policy are dated on this page.