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Privacy policy

Checked 14 October 2026. This policy matches the scripts on the page. If a script is not listed, it is not in the HTML.

What I checked

I compared this text with the layout source on 14 October 2026. Four third parties can act on a page view: Adsterra, which serves the two ad placements and whose invoker scripts are appended only after you Accept; the Google Analytics 4 tag and the Microsoft Clarity tag (project yxkjz4y4e4), which run in a consent-denied state until you Accept; and YouTube, only after a click. The ad unit ids, the Adsterra publisher id and the ads.txt seller line were read from the Adsterra publisher dashboard on 14 October 2026.

Original fan illustration of a river, lily pads and a boat; not a game screenshotOriginal fan illustration of glowing mirrors above the clouds; not a game screenshot
Original fan illustrations, not game screenshots or solution-board evidence.

Who is responsible

The operator of orderofthesinkingstar.top is the controller for this site. Email [email protected]. The game publishers are not the controller for this website. Adsterra, Google and Microsoft are separate controllers for what their own scripts and servers do; see their policies under Sources.

Third parties that can load

YouTube (Google) is the only embedded third-party provider. The still image is served by this site. Pressing Play video requests the privacy-enhanced player from www.youtube-nocookie.com; the player may then request Google-owned YouTube assets and video infrastructure (including ytimg.com, googlevideo.com, gstatic.com and google.com). Google receives network information such as your IP address and browser information. Purpose: show the official trailer. No player is created before this separate, voluntary play action. An ordinary external link does not load its destination until you follow it.

Google Analytics 4 is one of the two analytics products on this site; the other is Microsoft Clarity, described next. The GA4 tag (measurement ID G-D35LBLLHQG) is loaded from www.googletagmanager.com. Consent Mode v2 defaults are queued in a first-party script before the tag config, with ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization and analytics_storage denied, plus ads_data_redaction enabled. Until you press Accept the tag runs in that denied, cookieless state; Accept updates analytics_storage to granted, Reject keeps it denied.

Microsoft Clarity (project yxkjz4y4e4) is the only heatmap and session-replay product on this site. Its official snippet is loaded from www.clarity.ms and reports to *.clarity.ms. Clarity's Consent Mode is queued with ad_Storage and analytics_Storage denied before Accept, so Clarity writes no _clck or _clsk cookie on orderofthesinkingstar.top until you Accept and instead assigns a new id per page view; Accept raises both signals and lets Clarity join page views into one recording, Reject keeps them denied.

Adsterra is the only advertising network on this site. It serves two placements: a Native Banner (ad unit 31726132) in the content column, and a fixed Social Bar (ad unit 31726133) along the bottom of the viewport. Both invoker scripts come from the Adsterra script host bicea.org, and neither of them is in the page HTML: a loader in this site appends them only after you press Accept. Reject, Global Privacy Control, or a blocked loader means bicea.org is never requested. Withdrawing the choice with Cookie settings stops later page views from injecting them; an ad script that has already started on the current page is not torn out of it. Once an Adsterra script runs, it may serve ads chosen by Adsterra's own ad exchange, receive your IP address and browser information, and store what it needs to serve and bill those ads. Adult ads are switched off for this website in the Adsterra dashboard, so erotic creatives are excluded.

Cookies and localStorage

The essential localStorage key ootss_consent_v1 stores your Accept or Reject choice and a timestamp for 180 days. Its purpose is remembering your privacy preference. It is stored only on your device, not sent to this site. Use Cookie settings in the footer to change the choice; choosing Reject also removes any active embedded player and stops ad injection on later page views. After Accept, Microsoft Clarity can write its own first-party cookies _clck and _clsk on orderofthesinkingstar.top to join page views into one recording; Reject leaves them unwritten.

Closing the fixed Social Bar is remembered separately in localStorage under ootss_socialbar_dismissed (value 1, kept until you clear it), so the bar does not come back on a later visit. That key is a user-interface preference stored on your device and read only on this domain.

This site sets no analytics or advertising cookie before you Accept. After Accept, Google Analytics 4 can store its own first-party identifiers on orderofthesinkingstar.top to tell one visit from another, and Adsterra's scripts can set their own cookies or comparable browser storage to serve and bill ads. Those storages live on Google's, Microsoft's and Adsterra's systems under their own policies, and the legal basis for them is your consent. This site itself writes only the two keys named above. We do not claim a fixed list of Adsterra, YouTube, Google or Clarity cookie names: player storage, Analytics storage, Clarity storage and ad-server storage depend on what the visitor does, browser settings and vendor changes. Google's, Microsoft's and Adsterra's privacy policies explain their handling of that data.

Rights, ads, and signals

You can request access, correction or deletion of correspondence sent to [email protected], and raise a concern with your local data protection authority. Email contains the information you choose to send. Cloudflare Email Routing forwards messages to the operator's inbox; it does not add a browser-side script or marketing tracker. Website hosting can process ordinary connection logs for delivery and security. This local, pre-deployment review has no Cloudflare browser beacon installed.

Ads on this site are served by Adsterra (publisher 3403020, website 6122533). ads.txt declares adsterra.com, 3403020, DIRECT as the only authorised seller, because Adsterra is the only network in use. Consent Mode v2 keeps ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization denied until you Accept, so no personalised advertising profile is built before consent. Google's own ad controls are at https://adssettings.google.com/, the industry opt-out list is at https://optout.aboutads.info/, and the Analytics opt-out browser add-on is documented at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

If navigator.globalPrivacyControl is true, optional consent remains denied, so analytics_storage stays denied and no ad script is injected. Pressing Play video is a separate request to load YouTube; leave the player unopened to avoid that provider. Do Not Track is not read as a consent signal here; Global Privacy Control is.

Changes are dated on this page. Continued use does not grant consent to a new provider.

Questions

Do you sell data?

No. We do not sell data and we run no comment system. Adsterra serves the two ad placements, and Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity measure traffic; all three stay off until you Accept.

How do I change my choice?

Use Cookie settings in the footer, or delete the ootss_consent_v1 key. Choosing Reject stops the analytics tags from storing anything and stops Adsterra's scripts from being injected on later page views; delete ootss_socialbar_dismissed as well if you want the social bar to appear again.

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