Privacy

Short version: no cookies, no tracking across sites, nothing stored on your device.

Analytics

We use PostHog, hosted in the European Union, to count visits and learn which pages and games people care about. It runs in a cookieless mode: nothing is stored on your device, no cookies, no local storage. Because of that there is no consent banner, and there is no identifier that follows you between sites or from one day to the next. To tell one visit from another within a day, PostHog combines your IP address and browser type with a random value that it deletes every day, and keeps only the resulting one-way code.

What is recorded:

Pages visited, and how long for
How far down a page you scrolled
The site or search that referred you, including campaign parameters in a link
Device type, browser, operating system and screen size
Named actions, such as clicking through to Steam or Discord, playing a trailer, or using the newsletter form
How quickly the page loaded and responded, which measures the site, not you

What is not recorded:

Your name, email address or any other personal detail; an address typed into the newsletter form is never sent to analytics
Your IP address, or where you are; the IP is used only for the daily code above
Session recordings or any replay of your screen
Anything at all if your browser sends a Do Not Track signal

When you subscribe, your email address goes from our server straight to Substack, which runs the Patolli newsletter and sends you an email to confirm. We do not keep a copy. From then on Substack's privacy policy applies, and every issue has a one-click unsubscribe.

Trailers

Trailers on this site are served from this site itself, so watching one does not contact YouTube or any other video service.

Links to other sites

Steam, Discord, Substack and our social profiles are run by other companies, under their own privacy policies. We only record that a link was clicked, not what you do there.

Hosting

The site is hosted by Vercel, which, like any web host, processes your IP address to deliver pages and to protect the site from abuse.

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