Privacy policy for this daily investing game guide

The short version

This site loads Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and Adsterra from the first page view. It does not wait for you to press Accept. The cookie banner tells you that and gives you two buttons: Accept keeps everything on, Reject switches Clarity and ads off, sets GA4’s consent signals to denied, and stores that choice for 180 days. The footer link Cookie settings opens the same banner again so you can change your mind.

Only these three third parties run without a click: Google Analytics 4 (measurement), Microsoft Clarity (heatmaps and session replay) and Adsterra (advertising). The YouTube player and the erstwhile.io puzzle stay unloaded until you press their own buttons; pressing one is a separate choice for that embed.

We do not sell personal data. There is no data broker, no AdSense, no popunder and no adult advertising on this domain.

Cookies and browser storage, by name

localStorage — this site’s own consent record. It holds the choice (granted or denied), the time it was written and the expiry time. It lives in your browser’s local storage for 180 days. It records an explicit Accept or Reject choice. With no record the banner remains available and the services below load by default; clearing it brings the banner back.

adsterra-adbar-closed — set only if you press Hide ad bar. It remembers that you closed the fixed Adsterra bar so the bar does not return on the next page. It stays until you clear site data; it is not a cookie and it is never sent to a server.

Google Analytics 4 uses the gtag.js loader at www.googletagmanager.com and sends measurements to Google Analytics hosts, including www.google-analytics.com and regional collection hosts. It may use _ga and _ga_2TX04978XY to distinguish browsers. Cookie availability and duration depend on browser settings and Google’s configuration; this policy does not claim a measured lifetime. Measurement ID: G-2TX04978XY.

Microsoft Clarity loads from www.clarity.ms and scripts.clarity.ms and can send session measurements to Clarity collection hosts such as a.clarity.ms through t.clarity.ms. Microsoft documents _clck and _clsk among its cookies, with additional Microsoft identifiers depending on browser and consent settings. It can collect page interactions for heatmaps and session replay. Project ID: zbsyjjrbqr.

Adsterra’s Native Banner and Social Bar are requested from bicea.org. The network may request additional creative and measurement hosts and use third-party storage for frequency limits, impression counts, invalid-traffic detection and ad selection. Creative hosts can change by campaign; this site cannot read their cross-site cookies. We do not assert a fixed cookie list or retention period without vendor evidence. Adsterra publisher account: 3403020.

Our hosting and email provider is Cloudflare. Network requests can disclose IP address, time, requested URL and user agent to the provider for delivery and security. We do not publish a fixed log retention period because no site-specific period is configured here. Fonts and images are served from this domain; there is no font CDN.

Default loading and your choice

Services are requested by default on a first visit while the banner is shown. That program default is not a record of your having pressed Accept. Consent Mode v2 starts with ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization denied, analytics_storage granted, and ads_data_redaction enabled before GA4 configuration. The page then applies its default loading choice or your stored refusal. Reject records denied for 180 days and reloads the page to end already-running vendor code; the next document reads that refusal before creating any GA4, Clarity or advertising tag. A Global Privacy Control signal also prevents these tags.

The preference record is stored to remember your choice. Email sent to [email protected] is handled through Cloudflare Email Routing and the site mailbox Worker to answer your message and manage corrections. Access and retention depend on those operational purposes; you can request deletion using the same address.

We do not use analytics or ad data to make automated decisions about you, and we do not build profiles for sale. Adsterra may personalize the ads it shows; the opt-out links below cover that.

How to turn things off

Press Reject in the banner, or open Cookie settings in the footer. Reject writes denied and reloads the page, which ends the existing vendor session and prevents new vendor tags on later pages for 180 days. Requests already sent before rejection cannot be recalled. Accept re-enables the services and stores that choice for 180 days.

Per vendor: Google’s ad settings at https://adssettings.google.com and the Google Analytics opt-out at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout cover Google. Microsoft’s privacy dashboard at https://account.microsoft.com/privacy covers Clarity. Adsterra’s own opt-out and privacy policy are at https://adsterra.com/privacy-policy/.

Industry-wide: the Network Advertising Initiative at https://optout.networkadvertising.org/ and Your Online Choices at https://www.youronlinechoices.com/ let you refuse personalized advertising from many networks at once. Your browser’s third-party-cookie setting and any content blocker also work here; the guide reads fine without ads.

Embeds, mail, and changes

Two embeds wait for a click: the official puzzle at erstwhile.io and a YouTube player on the video pages. Until you press the button no request goes to either site. After that click those sites receive your IP address and may set their own cookies under their policies. Rejecting this site’s banner does not delete cookies those sites set after you chose to load them.

Email you send to [email protected] is correspondence. We keep it long enough to handle the correction and any follow-up, then delete it when the thread is done. You can ask for a copy or deletion of mail we hold by writing to that address, and you can complain to your local data authority.

Changes to this policy show up on this page with a new date. If a vendor is added, it is named here before it loads.

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