Privacy policy
This policy matches the scripts this site actually ships. If a vendor is not named here, the page is not loading it.
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Who we are
The site is zeldagames.org. Editorial mail is [email protected]. We are not Nintendo. We do not sell games, and we do not sell personal information.
Default loading, and how to turn it off
Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and Adsterra advertising load on the first page view. They do not wait for a click on Accept. YouTube is loaded only when you select a trailer button. The banner is a notice with two choices: Accept keeps them on, and Reject turns the optional ones off and remembers that choice for 180 days. There is no stored choice for a first-time visitor, and that state is treated as granted.
Reject saves the refusal and reloads the page to stop already-running Adsterra and Clarity code, removes YouTube players, and tells Google Analytics to stop analytics storage. Subsequent pages do not inject Adsterra or Clarity while that choice remains valid. The choice is stored under the local-storage key zeldagames.consent. Cookie settings in the footer reopens the banner so you can change the choice at any time. A browser that sends Global Privacy Control is treated as having rejected, without waiting for a click.
The default loading and the Reject control are described here so you can decide whether to use these optional services. We do not describe continued browsing or an automatically stored default as an affirmative consent action. Remembering your choice prevents the optional loaders from returning on each page. We do not use these tools to make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects about you.
Local storage on this site
These keys are written by zeldagames.org itself, not by a vendor:
| Key | Purpose | Retention |
|---|---|---|
zeldagames.consent | Records Accept or Reject, the timestamp, and a Global Privacy Control refusal. | 180 days, then the banner can appear again. |
zeldagames.played | Which rows you ticked on the full game list. | Until you clear site data. |
zeldagames.adbar.closed | Remembers that you closed the floating Adsterra Social Bar, so it does not return on the next page view. | Until you clear site data. |
Cookies and third parties
The first HTML document carries one vendor script tag: Google's gtag.js for GA4. The Adsterra and Clarity scripts are not in it; the browser creates them after parsing the page, from the URL strings in our own loader. Once loaded, vendors may set cookies or local storage in the site context or on their own domains, depending on browser restrictions and the service.
| Vendor | What it does | Cookies / identifiers | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics 4 googletagmanager.com, google-analytics.com |
Counts page views and aggregate traffic. No advertising features, no Google ad tag, no cross-site ad profile from us. | _ga and a property-specific _ga_<container-id> cookie used to distinguish visitors and preserve session state. |
Google documents a 2-year default for these cookies. Property settings can change that duration; this site has not independently verified the property-level event-data retention setting. |
| Microsoft Clarity clarity.ms |
Heatmaps and session recordings: clicks, scrolling, and a replay of the page as you used it. Form inputs and other sensitive content are masked by default. Project zbbeyckdzc. | _clck and _clsk identify site users and connect page views to a session. Microsoft also documents CLID, MUID, MR, SM and ANONCHK, depending on browser settings and service behavior. |
Cookie and recording retention is controlled by Microsoft and the Clarity project settings. See the linked Clarity cookie documentation; we do not claim a measured lifetime for this deployment. |
| Adsterra bicea.org and its creative hosts |
Serves the in-page Native Banner (unit 32187020, NativeBanner_1) and the floating Social Bar (unit 32187021, SocialBar_1) for publisher 3403020. It receives your IP address, browser and device information, the page URL and ad interactions, and may serve interest-based ads. Adult ads are off. |
Adsterra's own cookies and local storage on bicea.org and the creative domains, used for frequency capping, measurement and ad selection. Cookie names depend on the creative and may change; no per-creative cookie inventory is represented as a measurement here. |
Controlled by Adsterra on its own domains; see Adsterra's privacy policy. We do not hold a copy of those identifiers. |
| YouTube youtube-nocookie.com |
Loads a player only after you select a trailer button on a page that includes a video. The privacy-enhanced domain is used, but Google still receives the request and may set cookies after the player loads or you press play. | YSC, PREF, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA and Google's other YouTube cookies, depending on the player and your Google session. |
Set by Google and dependent on browser and account settings. See Google's cookie page. |
There is no Facebook pixel, no TikTok pixel, no traffic-mesh banner SDK, no AdSense tag, and no tag manager container on this site. Cloudflare serves the site and may keep short-lived security logs under Cloudflare's privacy policy; those are not used for advertising.
Interest-based advertising and opting out
Adsterra may serve interest-based advertising. You can limit it in several ways:
- Press Reject in our banner. That removes the Adsterra units on this site and is remembered for 180 days.
- Use the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out or Your Online Choices for participating companies.
- Use Google Ads Settings for Google's own ad personalization. This site does not run Google ads, but the control is the standard one for Google.
- Read Adsterra's privacy policy for the data it holds and its own request route.
- Install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on to stop GA4 measurement across sites.
Rejecting interest-based ads does not necessarily mean you see no ads; on this site it means the Adsterra units are not loaded at all.
Your requests
You can ask for a copy of any message you sent us, or for deletion of that correspondence, by emailing [email protected]. We keep mail only as long as we need it to answer you. For data Google, Microsoft or Adsterra hold, use the vendor links above; we do not have access to their identifiers. Depending on where you live, you may also have rights to access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, or objection, and the right to complain to your local data-protection authority.
This policy changes by editing this page and its date. Cookie settings in the footer reopens the choice banner.
FAQ
Do you use cookies?
The site itself uses local storage for the consent choice, the played checklist and the closed ad bar. Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity, Adsterra and YouTube set their own cookies after their scripts load; the table above names the main ones and their lifetimes.
Do you run ads?
Yes. Adsterra serves one in-page Native Banner and one floating Social Bar, both on the first page view. Adult ads are off. Press Reject and the units are removed for 180 days. The seller line in ads.txt is adsterra.com, 3403020, DIRECT.
Does YouTube load before I press play?
No. A local poster and a trailer button appear first. Selecting the button loads youtube-nocookie.com. Reject removes the player and stops future loading until you change Cookie settings.
Related
Sources
- GA4 cookie documentation — checked 2026-11-10
- Clarity cookie documentation — checked 2026-11-10
- Google privacy policy — checked 2026-11-10
- Google cookie page — checked 2026-11-10
- Microsoft privacy statement — checked 2026-11-10
- Adsterra privacy policy — checked 2026-11-10
- DAA opt-out — checked 2026-11-10
Page updated 2026-11-10. Site check date 2026-11-10.