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This policy matches the scripts on the page. ootremake.org loads Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and Adsterra advertising by default on the first page view. The cookie banner tells you this and offers Accept and Reject. Reject stores your choice for 180 days and stops Clarity and the ad scripts; Accept keeps them on. The YouTube trailer is available on selected pages and loads only when you press its image. Fonts are files on this site, not a Google Fonts request.

What loads, and what it sets

• Google Analytics 4 (gtag.js, measurement ID G-3CFGWKWYTE). It records page views, approximate location, device and browser, and the referring page. The GA4 cookies _ga and _ga_<container-id> have a default lifetime of 2 years. Event retention depends on the property settings; we have not independently verified a custom retention period. GA4 continues after Reject with analytics_storage granted.
• Microsoft Clarity (project zcec0iwqgi). It supports heatmaps and session replay. Clarity documents _clck and _clsk as first-party cookies on the visited site, and CLID, MUID, ANONCHK, MR and SM as third-party cookies on Microsoft domains. Recordings are available for up to 30 days. Cookie behavior can vary with browser and regional settings.
• Adsterra (publisher 3403020). It serves the Native Banner and Social Bar ads. Adsterra and its creative partners set cookies and local storage on bicea.org and on the domains their creatives use, to cap frequency, measure impressions and, where permitted, personalize ads. Their retention follows the Adsterra privacy policy.
• YouTube (Google). The trailer on the home page is a click-to-load facade: the site’s video player makes no YouTube request until you press the image. After that press, YouTube may set cookies such as VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE and YSC and receive your IP address and the page you came from.

Local storage on your device

The site’s own features use local storage rather than cookies; the integrated services can set first-party cookies on this domain. It writes three local storage keys: oot_consent, which holds granted or denied and expires after 180 days; oot_map_checks, which holds the checklist ticks on this device until you clear site data; and oot_socialbar_closed, which remembers that you closed the Adsterra Social Bar until you clear site data. The checklist is never sent to us.

Legal basis and your choice

Where the law requires consent, the legal basis is your consent, recorded in oot_consent. Where consent is not required, we rely on our legitimate interest in measuring the site and funding it with advertising. You can withdraw at any time with Cookie settings in the footer, choose Reject, or clear site data. Reject turns the advertising signals to denied and reloads the page to stop active Clarity and advertising scripts. The stored choice keeps them off on later pages. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, we store denied without waiting for a click.

Personalized advertising and opt-out

You can turn off personalized advertising at Google Ads Settings (https://adssettings.google.com/), at AboutAds (https://optout.aboutads.info/), at Your Online Choices for the EU (https://www.youronlinechoices.com/), or at the Network Advertising Initiative (https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/). Adsterra's own policy is at https://adsterra.com/privacy-policy/ and Microsoft's Clarity statement is at https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement. Opting out does not stop ads; it stops personalization.

Contact and retention

Retention is 180 days for oot_consent, until you clear site data for oot_map_checks and oot_socialbar_closed, up to 2 years by default for GA4 cookies, and up to 30 days for Clarity recordings. GA4 event retention follows the property settings. We do not sell personal information. You can email [email protected] to ask what this site holds about you, to object to processing, or to ask for erasure. We hold the mailbox contents of messages you send, and nothing else we can tie to your name. We will change this policy on the page when a script changes, and the date under the sources will move with it.