Harvest Moon®: Echoes of Teradea Privacy policy

What loads, and why

Advertising, and how to turn it off

Adsterra is the only advertising network on this site. Publisher account 3403020 serves two formats here: a Native Banner that sits between the article and the footer, and a Social Bar pinned to the bottom of the viewport. The snippets come from bicea.org. Adsterra’s own publisher help centre states that its advertisers do not require an ads.txt file; the file this site publishes declares that one publisher account and nothing else, so no other seller is named against this inventory.

Adult advertising is switched off for this Adsterra account, and the two ad units are attached to harvestmoon.pro in the dashboard rather than to a shared placement.

Nothing from Adsterra is requested before you press Accept. The ad snippets are stored as plain strings, and the site injects them into the page only on the Accept click — so advertising scripts, ad frames, and the network cookies described above are all absent for a visitor who rejects the banner or ignores it.

The bottom Social Bar carries Adsterra’s own close control. Pressing it removes the bar; this site records that dismissal in localStorage key hm_socialbar_closed for 30 days and does not inject the bar again until that record expires. Cookie settings in the footer reopens the choice, where Reject withdraws the acceptance entirely and no ad tag is injected on the next page load.

To limit personalised advertising elsewhere, use the industry tools at the Network Advertising Initiative (https://thenai.org/how-to-opt-out/), the Digital Advertising Alliance (https://optout.aboutads.info/), or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (https://www.youronlinechoices.com/). Adsterra describes its own handling in its privacy policy at https://adsterra.com/privacy-policy/. Those opt-outs do not stop advertising from appearing; they limit the use of your data for personalisation.

Consent, GPC, and ads settings

The head of each page queues Consent Mode v2 defaults before any optional tag: ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization, and analytics_storage are denied, ads_data_redaction is true, and an update is allowed to arrive within 500 milliseconds. The GA4 tag G-T2VB7WEP22 loads against those defaults, so before you choose it sends a cookieless ping instead of writing an identifier. Accept then updates all four signals to granted and injects the Adsterra snippets and the Microsoft Clarity tag. Reject stores a denial, keeps every signal denied, and loads neither Adsterra nor Clarity. Global Privacy Control is treated as a refusal and never loads them.

The preference is JSON containing choice and ts at localStorage key hm_consent. After 180 days it is treated as expired. Cookie settings in every footer reopens the controls, where you can withdraw a saved acceptance by choosing Reject. This essential preference never leaves the browser. Local images, system fonts, and the facade thumbnail do not contact external image or font services.

Playing the trailer is a separate request to Google. The 18 October browser check observed www.youtube-nocookie.com, www.google.com, a regional googlevideo.com media host, i.ytimg.com, fonts.gstatic.com, www.gstatic.com, yt3.ggpht.com, and jnn-pa.googleapis.com only after playback was requested. These player, media, image, font, and API requests can process your IP address, browser information, playback events, and identifiers under Google’s privacy policy. Hosts may vary by region or session. Privacy-enhanced mode does not make playback anonymous. Rejecting site tracking does not prevent a trailer you explicitly choose to play from loading; reload the page to remove an active player.

The Cloudflare edge also adds its own Web Analytics beacon from static.cloudflareinsights.com to every page. That beacon is cookieless and independent of the Accept choice, because the host injects it rather than page script; it records aggregate page views. Cloudflare Email Routing forwards [email protected] to an operator-controlled Gmail inbox. Correspondence is used to address your request, not to market to you, and is retained only as long as needed to resolve the issue and meet applicable obligations. Google and Cloudflare may process data in other countries under their respective privacy terms. Microsoft Clarity session replay runs only when you accept and masks sensitive content by default. Withdrawing consent through cookie settings stops new Clarity and Adsterra loads; containers already requested by an open page can stay until you reload.

Legal basis and retention

Advertising, Microsoft Clarity recording, and analytics storage run on your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, with the ePrivacy rules on storing information on your device); the Accept button records that consent and Cookie settings withdraws it. Storing the consent preference itself is necessary to honour the request. Delivering the pages through Cloudflare, keeping the site secure, and answering a message you send us rest on the legitimate interest of operating the site (Article 6(1)(f)) and, for correspondence, on taking steps at your request (Article 6(1)(b)).

Retention is specific: hm_consent for 180 days, hm_socialbar_closed for 30 days, Adsterra’s pip_<placement hash> cookies on bicea.org for about 6 hours, Clarity’s _clck for 1 year and _clsk for 1 day, and GA4’s _ga and _ga_T2VB7WEP22 for up to 2 years once consent is granted. Adsterra and Google set their own retention for the data they receive, and their policies describe it.

To request access, correction, deletion, or objection, email [email protected]. You can clear hm_consent and hm_socialbar_closed through this site’s browser data settings, which also removes the vendor cookies listed above, and you can complain to your local data-protection authority. We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

We do not honor a separate Do Not Track header beyond Global Privacy Control, because browsers disagree on DNT. GPC is honored as a refusal. Policy changes are posted on this page and dated in the footer. The current date is 18 October 2026.

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