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Privacy

Nothing on this site observes you. This page describes what that means technically, so the claim can be verified rather than trusted.

Last reviewed at the start of volume six. If any statement below ever stops being true, this page changes before the feature ships.

What is collected

Nothing. There is no account system, no comment facility, no newsletter, no search box that records queries and no form of any kind on any page. Since there is nowhere for you to enter information, no information about you is held.

Cookies and local storage

No cookies are set by this site. No values are written to local storage or session storage. The small amount of scripting used here handles the mobile navigation toggle, the current year in the footer, and the animation of the bar charts in the review sidebars, and it retains nothing between page loads.

Analytics and measurement

There is no analytics platform, no tag manager, no page-view counter, no heatmap tool and no error-reporting service. Reader numbers here are unknown to me, which is occasionally frustrating and entirely deliberate.

Third-party resources

Every file needed to display these pages is served from this domain: the stylesheet, the single script, the images, and the icon. There are no external fonts, no content delivery networks, no embedded video or audio players and no social platform widgets. Loading a page here contacts one host and no others, which can be confirmed in any browser's network inspector.

Server logs

The hosting provider that serves these files keeps standard access logs — the requested path, a timestamp, a response code, the requesting address and the user agent string. Those records exist for operational purposes such as diagnosing faults and are handled by the provider under its own retention policy. They are not combined with anything else, not exported, and not used to build any picture of individual readers.

Links to other sites

Where a review or note points to something outside this domain, the destination is governed by its own policies and not by this one. Following such a link is a request to a different operator, and nothing about your visit here is transmitted with it beyond the ordinary referring-page header your browser sends.

Children

This is a text publication about navigation design in games. It is not directed at children, and because nothing is collected from anyone, no information about a minor could be gathered here through use of the site.

Changes

If this site ever adds a feature that requires collecting anything — and there is no plan to — this page will be updated before that feature appears rather than afterwards, and the change will be described in plain terms rather than added as a clause.