Privacy Policy

The Short Version

Walkthrough Forge has no accounts or newsletters. It shows ads through Mediavine and uses Google Analytics to see which guides people read. Both use cookies and similar technology. The sections below explain what's collected and how to opt out.

Ads

This site shows ads through Journey by Mediavine. Mediavine and its advertising partners may use first-party and third-party cookies, tags and pixels to show ads, measure them and, where allowed, tailor them to your interests.

For personalized ads, the data collected can include your IP address, operating system and version, device type, browser type, the language of the site and a hashed email address. This site doesn't collect email addresses for ads. Mediavine's partners may combine this data with other information they hold to target ads across sites, apps and devices.

Where the law requires it, Mediavine shows its own privacy message so you can accept or refuse ad cookies. That message is separate from the Google Analytics choice below. If you opt out, you'll still see ads, but they won't be personalized. You can also opt out through the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance or, for mobile apps, AppChoices. See Mediavine's partner list for who these companies are and what each one collects.

Google Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics 4. It records the pages you view, the site that sent you here, your approximate location (country and city, derived from your IP address), and your device, browser and screen size. Google Analytics 4 doesn't store your IP address. It sets two cookies, _ga and _ga_BPG3FDVCLQ, which tell visits apart and expire after two years.

Google processes this data on my behalf. You can read how Google uses information from sites that use its services, or block Google Analytics on every site with the Google Analytics opt-out add-on.

Your Cookie Choice

This choice only covers Google Analytics. If you visit from the European Union, the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, Google Analytics only loads after you accept it in the cookie banner. Everywhere else it loads by default. Your choice is saved in your browser's local storage, not in a cookie, and you can change it at any time. Declining also deletes any Google Analytics cookies already set.

Change cookie choice

Comments

Guide comments run on Giscus and are stored in GitHub Discussions. You need a GitHub account to post, and GitHub's privacy statement covers what you post there.

Hosting

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Like any web host, Cloudflare handles your IP address to deliver pages and protect the site from attacks. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.

Email

If you email me, I use your address and message only to reply, and I delete them when they're no longer needed.

Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete your data, to object to its use, and to withdraw consent. The simplest way to stop collection is to use the ad opt-outs and the cookie choice above. For anything else, write to contact@walkthroughforge.com. If you're in the EU, EEA or UK, you can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Changes

If this policy changes, I'll update this page and the date at the top.