Privacy Policy

This privacy policy describes how Chained Beasts Guide ("we", "us", or "our") handles information when you visit this website and read our game guides, boss breakdowns, and FAQ.

Information We Collect

Chained Beasts Guide is a purely static website built with Astro and served over Cloudflare Pages. We do not offer user accounts, login forms, newsletter sign-ups, or payment checkouts, and we do not directly collect, store, or sell personal data. When you use our client-side site search (powered by Pagefind), your search queries are processed locally inside your browser against static index files and are never sent to a custom backend database.

Third-Party Services

Depending on your cookie consent choice and which features are active on a page, third-party services may process limited request data under their own privacy policies:

• Advertising partners (e.g. Google AdSense, Adsterra) — when ad slots are enabled and you accept cookies in the consent banner, advertising networks may set cookies or read standard browser identifiers to serve and cap ads. Declining consent keeps consent-gated ad scripts from loading.
• Analytics (e.g. Google Analytics 4, Cloudflare Web Analytics) — Google Analytics loads only after you accept consent in the banner and collects anonymized usage metrics such as pages visited, approximate region, and device category. Cloudflare Web Analytics is cookieless and measures aggregate performance and page-view counts without tracking individual users across sites.
• Cloudflare Pages — our edge hosting and CDN provider, which processes IP addresses and standard HTTP request headers to deliver static HTML/CSS/images and defend against automated abuse.
• Comments (giscus, opt-in) — when a page enables the GitHub Discussions comment widget, giscus.app loads an embedded frame; signing in to comment is handled directly by GitHub under GitHub's privacy policy.
• Embedded videos (YouTube) — pages with video embeds load static preview thumbnails from i.ytimg.com and only initialize the youtube-nocookie.com player after you actively click play.

Cookies and Local Storage

We use browser localStorage to remember your light/dark theme preference and your cookie-consent decision so you are not prompted on every page load. You can clear or block cookies and site storage at any time through your browser settings without losing access to any guide on Chained Beasts Guide.

Children's Privacy and Policy Updates

Chained Beasts Guide is a general-audience gaming reference and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we update this policy, we will revise the date at the top of this page. For questions about this policy or our site, visit the Contact page, About page, or Terms of Service.