Privacy & cookies

Cloudflare Web Analytics

This site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to measure aggregate visits, page views, referring websites, device information and website performance. Cloudflare states that Web Analytics does not collect or use visitors’ personal data and does not use cookies or local browser storage to measure traffic.

Cloudflare Web Analytics runs for all visits so we can understand overall traffic sources and site performance. It does not create individual visitor profiles or track people across websites.

Google Analytics

With your consent, this site uses Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-8RME79FK5W) to understand page visits, approximate location, device and browser type, and how visitors navigate the site. This helps improve MegaWord and its website. We do not send names, email addresses, leaderboard verification codes, or other directly identifying details to Analytics.

Google receives and processes this analytics data on our behalf. GA4 uses IP addresses briefly to derive approximate location, then discards them before the data is logged.

YouTube trailer

The launch trailer on the home page is hosted on YouTube. Its preview image loads from YouTube’s image servers as you scroll towards it. The video player only loads when you press play, and uses YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com).

Once the player has loaded, Google may set cookies or use local browser storage, and processes viewing data under its privacy policy.

Cookies used

A necessary local browser setting called megaword_analytics_consent remembers whether you accepted or rejected analytics. Analytics stays disabled until you accept.

Your choice and rights

Consent is the legal basis used for Google Analytics. Rejecting analytics does not limit the site. You can change or withdraw consent at any time; withdrawal does not affect processing that happened before it.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the use of your personal data, and to complain to your data protection authority. UK visitors can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Retention and third parties

Google Analytics user-level and event-level data should be configured to the shortest period needed in the Analytics property. Google provides more information in its privacy policy and its Analytics data safeguards.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, contact Tim Potter through timpotter.dev.