Privacy policy

What loads, and when

pokemonheartfeltgold.org is a static guide. Reading a page does not require an account. Three providers load on the first page view by default: Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-FCJP7SKHCT), Microsoft Clarity (project zass10bt1g, heatmaps and session recordings) and Adsterra (publisher 3403020, website 6186616, two ad units listed below). Their requests can disclose your IP address, browser information, the page URL and usage information to those providers.

The cookie banner is information and a withdrawal control, not a gate. A visitor with no stored choice is treated as granted: the three providers load immediately and the banner appears so the choice can be changed. Pressing Reject, or opening Cookie settings in the footer and choosing Reject, writes a denied record for 180 days and stops the loaders on this and later page views. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track are treated as a refusal.

Our loader requests these providers immediately unless a refusal is stored or a supported privacy signal is present. Fonts and preview images are hosted on this site. The YouTube player described below loads only after a separate play click.

Google Analytics 4

Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Limited, www.google-analytics.com and www.googletagmanager.com), measurement ID G-FCJP7SKHCT. Purpose: count page views and see which guides are read, so thin or broken pages can be fixed. It loads on the first page view unless you press Reject.

Storage: Google Analytics can write the first-party cookies _ga and _ga_<container> when analytics storage is granted. Google controls their duration and the analytics property's retention settings; this review has not established a site-specific retention period, so no duration is asserted here. Advertising storage, ad user data and ad personalization start denied in Google Consent Mode v2; analytics storage starts granted, and ads data redaction is enabled.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in measuring the guide, with a withdrawal control that takes effect immediately. Opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, by pressing Reject here, or by blocking the tag in your browser. Google's ad controls are at My Ad Center.

Microsoft Clarity

Microsoft Clarity (Microsoft Corporation, www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms and collection subdomains of clarity.ms), project zass10bt1g. Purpose: heatmaps and anonymized session recordings, so a confusing page can be seen rather than guessed at. It loads on the first page view unless you press Reject. Clarity masks sensitive content by default.

Storage: Microsoft's cookie documentation lists identifiers including _clck, _clsk and MUID. Which cookies are available depends on browser restrictions and Microsoft settings. Pressing Reject sends a refusal to Clarity and reloads this page with the loader disabled; later page views also keep it disabled while the refusal is valid. Microsoft controls its own retention periods. Microsoft's privacy statement is at privacy.microsoft.com.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in improving the guide, with the same immediate withdrawal control.

Advertising: Adsterra

Adsterra (Adsterra Ltd, adsterra.com), publisher ID 3403020, website ID 6186616. Purpose: display advertising that pays for the guide. Both units load by default and Reject disables them. Two units belong to this website: NativeBanner_1, dashboard unit 32170066, an in-page native unit, and SocialBar_1, dashboard unit 32170067, a floating bar anchored to the bottom of the window. Both are served from bicea.org, the delivery host Adsterra issued for this account; scripts and creatives are requested from that host and from the creative hosts it redirects to. "Show adult ads" is OFF for this website, so no adult creatives are requested for it.

Storage: Adsterra and its creative delivery partners may use cookies or other identifiers when an ad is requested. We have no verified complete list of their cookie names or lifetimes, so none is estimated here. Our own phg_ads_closed key only remembers your Hide ads preference; the separate consent key remembers Reject. The default-on setting describes this site's loading behavior and does not claim that continuing to browse is an affirmative consent action.

Personalized advertising: Adsterra and its partners may use the page topic and coarse device or region data to pick a creative. To opt out of interest-based advertising across sites, use DAA opt-out, NAI opt-out, and in the EU, UK or Switzerland Your Online Choices. Adsterra's own policy is at adsterra.com/privacy-policy-managed. Withdrawing consent here stops new ad requests from this site immediately.

The floating Social Bar is bound by our own layout, not the vendor's close control: whatever Adsterra anchors to the window is clamped to the viewport width (max-width 100vw, border-box, overflow hidden), the document reserves room at the bottom so the bar cannot cover the footer, and the Hide ads switch in the footer stores phg_ads_closed so the bar stays away on later visits instead of only until the next refresh.

Storage keys this site writes

Neither key is a cookie and neither leaves your browser. No other storage key is written by this site's own code. Cookie settings in the footer reopens the banner so you can choose again; deleting phg-consent restores the default-on behavior.

YouTube and other embeds

YouTube (Google). Purpose: play the developer's release trailer. A locally hosted preview stays as a picture until you press play; that click loads the player from www.youtube-nocookie.com. The player may then request media and supporting resources from YouTube's delivery domains, including ytimg.com and googlevideo.com. Google controls storage and retention for the player. Your play click requests that embed independently of the site's analytics and advertising choice. Google's controls are at My Ad Center.

Outbound links to GitHub, PokeHackDex, emulator sites and Reddit are ordinary links: those sites only see a request if you follow the link. The first-visit browser check observed Google tag and collection requests, the Clarity tag, scripts and collection subdomains, and bicea.org requests for both ad units. Creative delivery can add hosts under the same advertising purpose. No other embed or third-party SDK is loaded by this site. There is no traffic-mesh or other banner SDK, no social widget, and no comment system.

Rights, complaints, and changes

You can ask for access, correction, or deletion of a message you sent us, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interest. Email [email protected]. We reply to that mailbox. For advertising and analytics data, the controllers are the providers named above; the opt-out pages in this policy reach them, and we will forward a request if you send it here. You may lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

If the browser sends Global Privacy Control, the loader stores a denied choice and does not treat the visit as accepted. Do Not Track is read the same way.

Policy changes are posted on this page with a new checked date. The current date is 9 November 2026, the day the three integrations were added and re-read against the build.