Cookie Policy

What we mean by cookies

Cookies are small text files a site stores in your browser. Local storage is a similar browser feature. Both can remember that you are signed in or store a preference. Advertising partners can also set cookies to show and measure ads.

Cookies we set

Categories used on this site:

• Essential. Firebase Authentication may store cookies or local data so you stay signed in and so email verification and password reset work. The site does not work fully without them.
• Preferences. A guest wardrobe of saved skins and follows may be stored in local storage on your device under a key used only by this site. It is not sent to our servers unless you sign in and save.
• Analytics. Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity may set cookies or similar storage to measure page views, clicks, scrolls, and session behavior (including heatmaps and anonymized recordings). These help us improve the site.
• Advertising. When Google AdSense ads are shown, Google may set cookies such as those used by DoubleClick to recognize your browser, limit how often you see an ad, and measure whether an ad was viewed.
• Payments. Paddle checkout may set cookies or similar storage needed to complete a purchase securely.

Analytics (Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity)

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand traffic and how people move through the site. Google's partner-sites policy: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

We use Microsoft Clarity for heatmaps and session insights. Clarity's privacy documentation: clarity.microsoft.com/privacy

You can limit analytics cookies in your browser settings, or use tools such as Google Analytics Opt-out (browser add-on) where available.

Google AdSense

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site and other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized ads at aboutads.info (US) and Your Online Choices (EU).

For users in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, personalized ads depend on Google’s European regulations message (Privacy & messaging / Funding Choices)—a Google-certified CMP that implements the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) and transmits consent to ad partners. We do not use a homemade cookie banner for that purpose. You can reopen those choices anytime with “Privacy & cookie settings” in the site footer.

Google's advertising cookies are third-party cookies. We do not read the contents of those cookies. Google describes them at policies.google.com/technologies/ads and policies.google.com/technologies/cookies.

Consent management (EEA, UK, and Switzerland)

When advertising is enabled, visitors in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland see Google’s European regulations message (AdSense → Privacy & messaging), delivered by Google Funding Choices. That message is Google’s certified CMP path: it implements the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) and passes real consent signals to Google and participating ad partners—not a decorative first-party cookie popup.

We do not use a homemade “Accept all cookies” banner for advertising consent. Ad and analytics storage default to denied under Google Consent Mode until you choose in Google’s message (or refuse personalized ads).

You can change or withdraw consent later with “Privacy & cookie settings” in the footer, which opens Google’s revocation / privacy messaging UI when Funding Choices is active.

Publisher setup (for operators): AdSense → Privacy & messaging → European regulations → create or edit the message for eaglercraft.studio → publish. Without a published European regulations message, Funding Choices has nothing compliant to show.

How to control cookies

You can refuse or delete cookies in your browser settings. You can also:

• Use “Privacy & cookie settings” in the site footer (Funding Choices revocation, when available)
• Turn off personalized ads: adssettings.google.com
• Opt out of some third-party advertising cookies in the US: optout.aboutads.info
• Opt out in Europe: www.youronlinechoices.eu/
• Clear this site's local storage to remove the guest wardrobe.

More information

The Privacy Policy explains the personal information tied to accounts and payments. Questions: [email protected].