Privacy policy

Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and Adsterra load on the first page view. A banner tells you so and lets you turn them off; Reject is remembered for 180 days.

Who we are

The site is monstertrain.org. Email [email protected]. We are an independent guide and are not Shiny Shoe, Big Fan Games or Devolver Digital.

Default load and how to withdraw

We load the vendors below as soon as a page opens, without waiting for a click. The banner on the first visit is notice plus a withdrawal control, not a gate. Accept keeps them on. Reject reloads the page, stops Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and Adsterra for this browser and writes the choice to localStorage for 180 days; Cookie settings in the footer opens the banner again so you can change it. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, we treat that as Reject. Clearing site data removes the stored choice, and the next visit counts as a fresh default load.

What we store on your device

We do not run an account, a newsletter or a comment form on this domain, so we hold no profile to export. The two localStorage records in the table are the first-party values our code writes; the analytics and advertising vendors below can also write their own cookies on this domain.

Third parties that load by default

• Google Analytics 4 (Google; measurement ID G-BMK6Q3QKCC). Loaded by default from googletagmanager.com and sending measurement requests to google-analytics.com. It measures page views, approximate location, browser, device and interactions, and may store analytics cookies. Reject disables its loader and subsequent collection in this browser. Consent Mode v2 declares analytics storage granted and all three ad signals denied before configuration; the default-on loader then updates the signals for a granted visit. Google cookie documentation describes vendor defaults; this site does not assert an unverified property retention setting.
• Microsoft Clarity (Microsoft; project zatnjew1gh). Loaded by default from clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms and regional *.clarity.ms collection hosts. It records heatmaps and masked session replays, including clicks, scrolls and page layout, and may use vendor cookies. Reject stops its loader and session recording in this browser. Current cookie names and retention are listed in Microsoft’s Clarity cookie documentation.
• Adsterra (Adsterra Network; publisher 3403020, website 6186726, ad units NativeBanner_1 32170884 and SocialBar_1 32170885, scripts from bicea.org). It serves the sponsored box under the article and the fixed bar at the bottom-right, and may set its own cookies and read the page URL and your approximate location to choose a creative. Cookie names, domains and retention are chosen by the delivered creative and have no fixed documented value in this site’s integration record. Controls: default loading with a stored Reject option. Adult ads are switched off for this site. Adsterra’s own notice is at adsterra.com/privacy-policy.

Other third parties on the page

• YouTube (Google Ireland Limited). A gameplay video is a poster button, not an iframe, until you press play. Pressing it loads youtube-nocookie.com/embed/…, which may set its own cookies and receives your IP address. We do not load it on arrival. Opt out through Google account controls.
• Steam, the Nintendo store and other store links leave this site for the store’s own domain; that store’s policy applies there. We do not embed the game.
• We do not run AdSense, a popunder, a smartlink, a push-notification prompt or a traffic-mesh banner SDK on this site.

Legal basis and retention

Analytics, session replay and advertising are enabled by default as described above. You may withdraw through Reject or Cookie settings; we remember that choice for 180 days. The 180-day period applies to our choice records, while vendor storage follows the vendor documentation linked above. Server logs, if retained by the host, are controlled by the hosting provider. Contact us about data processing at the address above.

Your rights

You can ask for access, correction, deletion, restriction, or object to processing, and you can withdraw consent at any time with the banner. Email the address above. You can also complain to a data-protection authority where you live. Deleting mt_consent and mt_socialbar_closed in your browser removes the local records immediately; vendor cookies are removed through your browser’s site-data controls.

Changes

When we add or remove a vendor, this page names it, its keys and its purpose before the change ships. The modified date on this page is the change log.