Privacy policy

This page lists every third party pokederby.org actually loads, what each one stores, and how to turn it off. Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and Adsterra load on the first view; Reject turns ads and session recording off for 180 days; GA4 measurement continues. Updated 12 Nov 2026.

Poke Derby Base Camp on turn 9 of 78, with five stats and five training facilities — Screenshot: Poke Derby / Zietes

Who is responsible

The publisher of pokederby.org handles questions about this site. Email [email protected]. The game at pokederby.com has its own privacy page and its own contact address; this policy covers only this guide.

What loads, and when

The site loads three third parties by default, before you touch the banner: Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-N5GJ43JH3R), Microsoft Clarity (project zcejlfw3lu), and Adsterra (publisher 3403020, units NativeBanner_1 and SocialBar_1). The banner is a notice with Accept and Reject, not a gate. Reject stores that choice for 180 days and reloads the page without advertising or Clarity scripts; GA4 measurement continues; the footer link “Cookie settings” opens the banner again so you can change it. A browser that sends Global Privacy Control prevents the ad and Clarity loaders from starting.

The ad and recording tags are created asynchronously by this site’s own script as the page is parsed, not as blocking <script src> tags in the HTML. The YouTube player is the one exception to default loading: a video card shows a picture we host, and the player is created only when you press play.

Cookies and local storage

Name	Set by	What it is	How long
pd_consent	pokederby.org (local storage)	The Accept or Reject record, with its expiry time.	180 days
pd_float_closed	pokederby.org (local storage)	Set to 1 when you close the floating Social Bar, so it stays closed.	Until you clear site data
_ga, _ga_N5GJ43JH3R	Google Analytics 4	A random client id and session state used to count visits and attribute campaigns.	2 years
_clck, _clsk	Microsoft Clarity	A project/session id and the session recorder state used for heatmaps and replay.	_clck 1 year; _clsk 1 day
CLID, MUID, ANONCHK, SM	Microsoft Clarity / Microsoft	Microsoft identity and session cookies used by Clarity and its Microsoft back end.	CLID and MUID 1 year; ANONCHK 10 minutes; SM session
_cltk	Microsoft Clarity (local storage)	A session marker used to stitch a replay together.	Session
Adsterra cookies	Adsterra, on bicea.org and adsterra.com	Ad delivery, frequency capping, and invalid-traffic detection. Adsterra controls cookie names and expiry on its advertising domains.	Set by Adsterra; no fixed lifetime verified
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC, PREF, CONSENT	YouTube (when you press play)	Player preferences, bandwidth and consent state for the embedded player.	YSC session; VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE 6 months; PREF 8 months; CONSENT 2 years

We set no first-party advertising cookie and we do not sell personal information. Our own scripts store the two local-storage keys above; GA4 and Clarity can also set first-party cookies, and local storage is not sent to a server with every request the way a cookie is. Fonts and images are files on this site.

Google Analytics 4

GA4 runs through the gtag.js loader on www.googletagmanager.com and reports to *.google-analytics.com. It records page views, approximate location derived from the request, device and browser, and the pages you visit here. IP addresses are not logged by GA4. We use it to see which guides are read. Google’s policy is at policies.google.com/privacy, and you can opt out of measurement with the Google Analytics opt-out add-on. Event retention depends on the GA4 property settings; we have not verified a site-specific retention period.

Microsoft Clarity

Clarity uses www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms and regional *.clarity.ms collection hosts. It records how a page is used: clicks, scroll depth, and a session replay of the page as rendered. Form fields and other sensitive content are masked by Clarity’s default masking, and we do not type anything into the site on your behalf. Retention follows Microsoft’s current Clarity policy; we have not independently verified a retention period for this project. Clarity’s terms are at privacy.microsoft.com and its own notice is at clarity.microsoft.com/privacy. Reject sends denied consent to Clarity and reloads the page without its script, stopping subsequent session recording.

Adsterra

Adsterra fills the in-page Native Banner and the floating Social Bar. Its script is loaded from bicea.org; the native unit renders into container-9dd28d47670f689ffcfc3e91f1f279e7. Adsterra and its demand partners may set cookies on their own domains to choose a creative, cap frequency, and detect invalid traffic. Adult ads are switched off on this website. We do not pass your email or any contact detail to Adsterra. Adsterra’s policy is at adsterra.com/privacy-policy. Reject reloads the document without the advertising scripts or injected frames and remembers the choice for 180 days.

YouTube

A video card shows a picture we host. The player may contact Google video and image delivery hosts such as *.googlevideo.com and *.ytimg.com after activation. Pressing play creates an iframe from www.youtube-nocookie.com (the nocookie host), and YouTube may then set its cookies and read the player request. Their policy is at policies.google.com/privacy.

Legal basis and your rights

For visitors in the EEA and the UK: the site currently loads measurement, recording and advertising by default. The banner stores a preference; pressing Accept is an affirmative choice, while a first-visit default is not affirmative consent. Use “Cookie settings” to stop advertising and session replay; GA4 remains enabled with analytics storage granted. The Google opt-out link above provides a separate measurement control. You can ask for a copy of mail you sent us, a correction, or deletion, by emailing the address above, and you can complain to your local data-protection authority. We do not build an advertising profile of you ourselves.

Personalized advertising

If you want to limit personalized advertising across sites, use Google Ads Settings, the DAA opt-out, Your Online Choices (EU), or the NAI opt-out. These are industry controls outside this site; they do not remove ads, they change how they are chosen. Reject on this site is the switch that stops the Adsterra units here.

Retention and changes

The consent record lasts 180 days and is renewed when you choose again. Analytics and replay data follow the retention periods above. If a new third party is added, this page changes in the same update, with a new date at the top. The date matches the article modified time on the page.

Twelve racers on a snowy Seafoam Islands course, with Squirtle using Streamlined Shell — Screenshot: Poke Derby / Zietes

Questions

Do you use cookies?

Yes. GA4, Clarity and Adsterra set cookies, and they load by default. The site’s own choice is local storage under pd_consent for 180 days; the floating bar’s close state is pd_float_closed. Reject stops the ads and the recording and remembers that for 180 days.

Do you run ads?

Yes, Adsterra: one in-page Native Banner and one floating Social Bar, with adult ads off. These are the only advertising placements used on this site.

How do I turn it off?

Press Reject in the banner, or open “Cookie settings” in the footer and press Reject. That reloads the page without ad or Clarity scripts and stores the choice for 180 days; GA4 measurement continues. Clearing site data removes the record and the banner asks again.

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Sources

Google privacy policy — checked 12 Nov 2026
Microsoft privacy statement — checked 12 Nov 2026
Adsterra privacy policy — checked 12 Nov 2026
Google Ads Settings — checked 12 Nov 2026