PRIVACY
Privacy policy
This guide loads Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and Adsterra ads by default, and a YouTube player only when you press play. The cookie banner tells you that and lets you withdraw: Reject turns the analytics and ads off and remembers the choice for 180 days.
Updated 2026-11-13
Who is responsible
The operator of neversortbycolor.com is the publisher of this guide. Email [email protected]. The game studio is a separate company and does not run this domain.
What loads, and when
Nothing here waits for an Accept click. On your first visit, before you touch the banner, the page already starts Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and the two Adsterra ad units described below, because that is this site's default. The banner is a notice and a withdrawal control, not a gate: pressing Reject stops those scripts, removes the ads already on screen, and stores the refusal for 180 days. Pressing Accept keeps them running and hides the banner. You can reopen the banner from Cookie settings in the footer at any time.
| Party | Purpose | When it loads | Storage and retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| This site | Remember your Accept or Reject, and remember that you hid the floating ad bar | On the first visit a granted record is written, then the banner appears. Reject overwrites it as declined. | Local storage keys nsc_consent (your choice, 180 days) and nsc_ads_closed (the hidden floating bar, 180 days). No cookie is set by this site itself. |
| Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC), measurement ID G-DN810MSVL0 | Count page views, sessions, referrers and device class so the guide can see which pages are read | Immediately on the first view, unless you rejected earlier or your browser sends Global Privacy Control | Cookies _ga (2 years) and _ga_ |
| Microsoft Clarity (Microsoft Corporation), project zczfrrkzbg | Heat maps and session replays of clicks, scrolling and taps, used to fix confusing layouts | Immediately on the first view, unless you rejected earlier or your browser sends Global Privacy Control | Cookies _clck (1 year), _clsk (1 day), CLID (1 year), ANONCHK, MR and MUID; recordings are kept for 30 days by default and heat-map data for up to 13 months. Form inputs and other sensitive fields are masked by Clarity. |
| Adsterra (Adsterra Network), publisher 3403020, website 6197069 | Serve and measure the NativeBanner_1 (unit 32251071) in-page ad and the SocialBar_1 (unit 32251072) floating bar, and limit repeated impressions | Immediately on the first view, unless you rejected earlier or your browser sends Global Privacy Control | Adsterra and the creative host that serves the unit (for example bicea.org) set their own cookies and local identifiers for frequency capping, fraud prevention and measurement; the names change per campaign and are not published as a fixed list. Their retention is set by Adsterra. Reject or your browser settings block them. Adult ads are switched off for this site. |
| YouTube (Google LLC) | Play the official trailer when you ask for it | Only after you press the play button on a video. A page view does not request YouTube. | Cookies Google sets in the player, commonly VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC and PREF; their list can change. The player is loaded in privacy-enhanced mode from youtube-nocookie.com. |
The site directly starts Google, Microsoft and Adsterra scripts. Their delivery endpoints include googletagmanager.com, google-analytics.com, clarity.ms and bicea.org; ad creatives and vendor delivery chains may request additional campaign hosts. YouTube and its media hosts load only after Play. Hosting and contact email use Cloudflare. The release review records the hosts observed in a real browser; campaign hosts may change.
The consent record
- Key: nsc_consent, stored in local storage rather than a cookie. Its value records whether ads are allowed, an analytics flag, an expiry timestamp and a version.
- Key: nsc_ads_closed, also in local storage, set when you press Hide ads on the in-page unit. It keeps the floating Social Bar from coming back on later visits.
- Retention: 180 days from the last choice. After that the next visit writes a fresh granted record and shows the notice again.
- Cookie settings in the footer reopens the notice so you can switch. Accept after a Reject reloads the page so the scripts can start again.
- If the browser sends Global Privacy Control, the record is written as declined, the scripts do not start, and the notice stays down. A Do Not Track signal is treated the same way when the browser exposes it as navigator.doNotTrack.
Default behavior and withdrawal
This build starts analytics and advertising requests by default and provides a withdrawal control. An automatic default is not affirmative consent. Advertising storage, ad user data and ad personalization signals default to denied; analytics storage defaults to granted. Reject withdraws all four signals and reloads the page so the tracking loaders stop. Contact the operator about privacy requests at the address above.
Your choices and opting out
Reject in the banner is the switch that covers this site: it stops GA4, Clarity and Adsterra and is remembered for 180 days. Independently of this site you can limit personalized advertising at Google ad settings, the DAA opt-out page, Your Online Choices and the NAI opt-out. Blocking third-party cookies in the browser also stops the ad and analytics cookies described above. Clarity can be turned off per site with its consent API, which this page already calls with your choice.
Who receives data
Google (Analytics 4 and YouTube), Microsoft (Clarity) and Adsterra receive the requests described in the table, together with your IP address, user agent and the page you opened. These companies may process data outside the EEA under the European Commission's standard contractual clauses or an adequacy decision; their own privacy notices describe the safeguards. I do not sell personal information, and I do not share the contents of mail you send me with any of them.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of mail you sent, ask for a correction, or ask me to delete a thread. Email [email protected]. You can clear nsc_consent and nsc_ads_closed in your browser without writing to me, and you can withdraw analytics or ads at any time with Reject. You may lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority. For data held by Google, Microsoft or Adsterra, their own privacy dashboards and opt-outs are the fastest route; I can pass a request on if you prefer.
Mail and retention
Messages to the contact address are stored in the mailbox long enough to answer and to keep a correction history for the page they mention. I do not ask for an account, a payment card, or a Steam login. Hosting logs may keep an IP address for security for a short operations window controlled by the host, not by a tracker on this page.
Changes
A change to this policy updates the modified date on this page and the sentence in the footer that names the check date. A new third party is added to the table above before its script ships, and a removed one is deleted in the same release.
Questions
Do I have to press Accept before analytics or ads run?
No. GA4, Clarity and Adsterra start on the first view because that is the site default. The banner tells you so and lets you press Reject, which stops them for this visit and for 180 days.
How do I withdraw?
Press Reject in the banner, or reopen it with Cookie settings in the footer. Reject rewrites nsc_consent for 180 days, removes the ads on screen, and stops the analytics scripts on the next load.
Does the floating ad bar remember that I closed it?
Yes. Hide ads writes nsc_ads_closed for 180 days, and the Social Bar is not created on later visits while that key is set.
Sources
- Google Analytics 4 cookie usage — checked 2026-11-13
- Microsoft Clarity data and cookies — checked 2026-11-13
- Adsterra publisher privacy and opt-outs — checked 2026-11-13
- YouTube embedded player parameters — checked 2026-11-13
- Global Privacy Control — checked 2026-11-13
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