Privacy

What runs on every visit

Cloudflare hosts, delivers, and protects ReStoryGame.com. Each request therefore passes through Cloudflare, which may process the IP address, requested URL, timestamp, browser and network details, referrer, approximate location, and security signals needed to deliver the page, prevent abuse, and diagnose failures.

Cloudflare Web Analytics also loads its performance beacon from static.cloudflareinsights.com and sends real-user performance measurements to this site's /cdn-cgi/rum endpoint. Cloudflare describes this service as cookieless: it does not use cookies or localStorage to recognize visitors and does not track people across customer sites.

Optional Google Analytics

Google Analytics 4 loads in advanced consent mode for measurement ID G-K53NG1RV1V. Analytics is enabled by default, including first-party cookies and pseudonymous client and session identifiers. You can disable it using Analytics choices in the footer. With analytics disabled, the tag sends limited cookieless page measurements without creating GA cookies. Measurements can include the page path and title, referrer, browser and device characteristics, language, screen size, and approximate location derived from the IP address. Query strings are removed from the page URL, and we do not send names, email addresses, message contents, search text, or game account details to Google Analytics.

While analytics is enabled, the site can also send a small set of task events: whether a guide answered the question, a fixed reason button when it did not, a no-results state, a palette or device record opened, and achievement or story-checklist actions. Event values use page IDs, tool names, fixed categories, and fixed action labels. Typed searches, checklist contents as a whole, free text, and URL query strings are not sent.

Google says GA4 uses an IP address at collection time for routing and approximate location, then discards the raw address before it is logged. Our property has Google Signals disabled and is not linked to Google Ads. We use these reports to understand guide use, not to serve personalized advertising.

Cookies and local storage

• restory.analytics-consent is a first-party localStorage preference containing granted or denied. It remains until you change the choice, clear site data, or use browser controls.
• restory.achievement-progress.v1 and restory.story-choice-progress.v1 store the checklist IDs you mark complete. They stay in this browser, are not uploaded, and can be erased with the tracker's clear button or your browser controls.
• _ga and _ga_K53NG1RV1V are first-party Google Analytics cookies created only after consent. They distinguish a browser and preserve session state. This site configures them to expire no later than 90 days after activity.
• Cloudflare Web Analytics does not set analytics cookies. Cloudflare may set strictly necessary security cookies if a challenge or protective feature is triggered.

This site has no account system.

Third-party advertising

We load a Social Bar advertising script from bauval.org on each page. We also load a banner from bauval.org in a separate, sandboxed advertising frame: 728 × 90 on desktop or 320 × 50 on smaller screens. The banner appears after the homepage introduction, after a guide’s short answer, or below navigation on other pages, only when supported image or video creative has loaded. Empty and failed banners take no space. These third-party scripts and their advertising partners may receive your IP address, page URL, referrer, browser and device details, and may use cookies or other browser storage to deliver and measure advertisements.

Content pages also load Adsterra Popunder advertising from abscloud.org. A page interaction may open an advertising window or tab. Adsterra manages display frequency; this site does not impose a separate browser-storage frequency limit. The advertising data practices described above also apply to Popunder.

The footer's Analytics choices control applies to Google Analytics only; it does not disable these advertising scripts. Browser privacy controls and content blockers can limit third-party advertising requests and storage. Advertisements and their destination sites are provided by third parties.

Embedded videos and external links

Video thumbnails are hosted on ReStoryGame.com. A YouTube player is requested from youtube-nocookie.com only after you choose to play a video. From that point, YouTube receives the network request and may process the IP address, browser data, playback activity, cookies, or local storage under Google's privacy terms. Simply loading a page does not request the YouTube player.

Links to Steam, Reddit, YouTube, and other sources do not contact those services until you follow the link. Their own privacy terms apply after you leave this site.

Information you provide

There is no contact form. If you email us, your mail provider sends the address, message, and attachments you choose to include through Cloudflare Email Routing to the site operator's mailbox provider. Cloudflare and that mailbox provider therefore process the message in transit and for delivery under their own terms. We use it to reply, review corrections, and investigate documented game issues. Do not send passwords, payment information, or sensitive personal data.

Retention and sharing

The GA4 property is configured to retain user-level and event-level data for two months; Google may retain aggregated reporting separately. Your analytics choice remains in localStorage until you change or clear it. Editorial emails are kept only while useful for the conversation, a correction record, security, or a legal obligation.

Data goes to the providers described above to run the site, deliver and measure third-party advertisements, obtain page measurements, provide cookie-based analytics unless you disable it, respond to abuse, or comply with law.

Your choices

Use Analytics choices in the footer at any time. Choosing No thanks denies analytics storage and deletes the Google Analytics cookies that this site can access. Limited cookieless page measurements continue, but cookie-based identifiers and optional analytics storage remain disabled. This does not delete measurements already received by Google; contact us if you have a deletion request. You can also clear cookies and local storage in your browser.

You may ask us to delete an editorial email or correct your contact details, subject to legal and security requirements. Contact [email protected].