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Cookie policy
GTADb sets no tracking cookies of its own. This page lists everything that may be stored in your browser, who sets it and how to change your choice.
Effective
In short
- We ourselves store only your collectible progress and checklists, in local storage, never on our servers.
- Google Analytics (visit statistics) and Google AdSense (ads) may set cookies. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland they run only after you agree in the consent dialog.
- YouTube is loaded only when you press play on a video, in privacy-enhanced mode.
- Cloudflare, which protects the site, may set a short-lived technical cookie.
What cookies and local storage are
A cookie is a small text file a website stores in your browser; it is sent back with every request to the same domain. Local storage works similarly but stays in the browser and is never sent automatically. Both can be inspected and deleted in your browser settings at any time.
What GTADb stores itself
gtadb:found:{game} and checklist entries (local storage) — which collectibles and missions you have ticked. They never leave your device and there is no account behind them.
A session cookie exists only for the site administration (/nest) and is never set for visitors.
The consent dialog for the EEA, the UK and Switzerland stores your choice (the IAB TCF string) so that it is not asked again; it is managed by Google on our behalf.
Third-party cookies
Google Analytics — anonymous visit statistics (pages, country, device). Cookies such as _ga and _ga_*, kept up to 2 years.
Google AdSense — ads and measurement of their views and clicks. Google and its partners may use cookies to personalise ads based on your visits to this and other sites. You can switch personalised ads off in Google Ads Settings. How Google uses data from partner sites is explained at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and the cookie types at policies.google.com/technologies/cookies.
Cloudflare — a technical cookie (for example __cf_bm) used only to tell people from bots; it contains no personal data and expires within an hour.
YouTube — nothing is loaded until you press play; the player then runs on youtube-nocookie.com, which stores data only after you start the video.
Your choice
EEA, UK, Switzerland: on your first visit a consent dialog (Google-certified, IAB TCF 2.2) asks whether Google may store and read cookies for analytics and ads. Without your agreement neither runs with cookies. You can reopen the dialog at any time with the button below or via the “Privacy settings” link in the footer.
Everywhere else: analytics and ads run by default; you can still refuse personalised ads in Google Ads Settings and block or delete cookies in your browser.
Deleting cookies in your browser removes your consent choice as well; you will be asked again. Blocking all cookies does not break the site — only progress tracking needs local storage.
Changes and contact
We update this page when the tools we use change; the date at the top shows the current version. Questions go through the contact form. The full picture of what we process is in the privacy policy.