Privacy
This page covers gamehandbooks.com and every game guide on it. Updated .
Who runs this site
This website is operated by Game Handbooks. Contact: hello@gamehandbooks.com.
What is collected
Cloudflare hosting
The site is a set of static pages served by Cloudflare. To deliver each page and protect the site from attacks and abuse, Cloudflare processes the details every web request carries: your IP address, browser user agent, the address requested, the referring page and the time. Cloudflare processes this on our behalf.
Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics
Every page loads Google Tag Manager (container GTM-W9GZVRBQ), which loads Google Analytics 4 to measure which pages are read. It loads only on gamehandbooks.com; local and preview copies do not load it. When a page loads, Google's script sets two cookies, _ga and a second cookie whose name starts with _ga_, which hold a random identifier for your browser and the current visit. It sends Google:
- the page address and title, and the page you came from;
- the pseudonymous cookie identifier and visit timing;
- approximate location (country, region and city) estimated from your IP address;
- device details such as browser, operating system, screen size and language.
For visitors in the EU, Switzerland and the UK, Google states that Google Analytics does not log or store IP addresses. We see aggregated reports; Google Analytics does not give us your name or email address.
Search
Each game guide has its own Pagefind search, which runs in your browser against an index downloaded from this site. No search service receives your words. The search page adds them to its address (for example /brotato/search/?q=engineer), so if that address is loaded, reloaded or shared, the words reach Cloudflare and Google Analytics with it.
Not collected
There are no accounts, forms, comments or ads. Apart from the Google Analytics cookies, the site sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser.
Why, and the legal basis
Cloudflare data is used to deliver the site and keep it secure. Google Analytics data is used to count visits and see which guides are read, in aggregate, so we know what to update. For visitors covered by the EU or UK GDPR, we rely on legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)) for both. You can object at any time, as described below.
How long it is kept
Google Analytics keeps user-level and event-level data for the retention period set on our property (2 or 14 months); aggregated reports are kept after that. The _ga cookies expire after 2 years unless you delete them sooner. Cloudflare keeps request data according to its own retention settings.
Who receives it
Google and Cloudflare receive the data described above. Both may process it outside the UK and the European Economic Area, including in the United States. Their policies explain what they do with it:
- Google Privacy Policy
- Google Tag Manager data privacy
- How Google uses information from sites that use its services
- Google Analytics data retention
- Cloudflare Privacy Policy
Opting out
- Block or delete cookies for gamehandbooks.com in your browser settings. Every page still works without them.
- Install Google's Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
- A content blocker that blocks
googletagmanager.comstops Tag Manager and Google Analytics from loading.
Cloudflare request data cannot be switched off, because the site cannot be delivered without it.
Your rights in the EU and UK
You can ask for access to, correction or deletion of personal data we hold about you, ask us to restrict its use, or object to its use for analytics. Send these privacy requests to hello@gamehandbooks.com. Analytics data is linked only to a random cookie identifier, so we may need the value of your _ga cookie to find it.
You can also complain to a data protection authority: the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK, or the authority in your EU or EEA country.