Skyward Sword: Privacy policy

Sources reviewed: 2026-11-10

Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and Adsterra load by default. YouTube starts on play. Reject stops these services for 180 days.

Who we are

The site is skywardsword.org. Email [email protected]. The guide is independent and is not Nintendo.

What this site loads

On every page view this site loads Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and the Adsterra advertising units by default; YouTube is available and starts when you press play. The banner is a notice and a withdrawal control. Google Consent Mode starts with ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization denied and analytics_storage granted; ads_data_redaction is enabled. The advertising and recording loaders still request on arrival unless a saved rejection or privacy signal disables them. Accept updates the four Google signals to granted. Reject turns all four services off and stores a denied record for 180 days. Cookie settings in the footer opens the banner again. If the browser sends Global Privacy Control, or Do Not Track is on, the site treats it as Reject.

Analytics: Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity

Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-B8TF5XLVDG) counts page views and events so I can see which guide pages are used. Google may set the _ga and _ga_G-B8TF5XLVDG cookies and receives your IP address, user agent, page URL and approximate location. Google controls retention under the property settings and its published policies. Microsoft Clarity (project zbawx9y2hn) records heatmaps and session replays so I can see where a page is hard to read. Clarity may set the _clck and _clsk cookies or use local storage and receives your IP address, device, page URL, clicks and scrolling; Microsoft publishes its current recording and cookie retention periods in the sources below. Both services are provided by their vendors under their own privacy policies. These services start by default; use Reject to withdraw and stop them.

Advertising: Adsterra

Adsterra publisher 3403020 supplies the in-page Native Banner (unit 32186639) and the floating Social Bar (unit 32186640). The unit loaders come from bicea.org; ads and measurement run on Adsterra and partner domains. Adsterra receives your IP address, browser and device details, the page URL and how you interact with an ad. It may set cookies, local storage or device identifiers on its own domains for frequency capping, measurement and interest-based advertising, and it controls how long it keeps them. I do not enable adult ads. These loaders start by default and are disabled through Reject. To opt out of personalised advertising, use Adsterra's privacy policy, Your Online Choices, aboutads.info or Google Ad Settings. Reject stops the Adsterra loaders on this site.

YouTube

A video is a picture and a button until you press play. Pressing play loads youtube-nocookie.com and can send your IP address to Google; that request does not happen on arrival. If you choose Reject, the player stays off and tells you so. Google's account controls are at myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy.

Storage on your device

Your choices and rights

Reject turns Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity, Adsterra and YouTube off for this browser and remembers the choice for 180 days; Accept turns them back on. You can withdraw at any time through Cookie settings in the footer. You can ask for access, correction or deletion of a message you sent me, and you can object to processing, by emailing the address above. You can also complain to a data-protection authority where you live. Deleting the ss_consent, ss_checks and ss_adbar_closed keys removes the on-device records immediately. I do not run an account, so there is no profile to export.

Changes

This page is the change log; the date above is the last change. Adsterra is declared as a seller in /ads.txt with publisher 3403020. If another analytics or advertising service is added, this page will name the vendor, the purpose and the storage before that script ships.