What actually loads
Privacy policy
Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity recordings, Adsterra advertising and YouTube trailers are part of this guide. Everything except the trailer player loads on the first view; the banner says so and lets you reject the whole set for 180 days. Contact for a privacy request: [email protected].
What loads on a first view
The page loads Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and two Adsterra units (Native Banner and Social Bar) immediately. A YouTube player is requested only when you press play on a trailer. There is no gate that waits for an Accept click: a visitor with no stored choice is treated as granted, the banner appears as a notice, and Reject is the control that switches the optional scripts off.
| Name | Purpose | When it is written | Storage and retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| nfsu2-consent | Remembers Accept or Reject for this guide. | When you press Accept or Reject; a first visit with no choice is recorded as granted. | localStorage on this device, 180 days |
| nfsu2_adbar_closed | Remembers that you hid the Adsterra Social Bar. | When you press Hide ad bar in the footer. | localStorage on this device, 180 days |
| _ga, _ga_ELQ8KGET05 | Google Analytics 4 counts page views, referral source, approximate country and device type. | First view, before you choose anything. | First-party cookies; Google documents up to 2 years for the main cookie. Event retention follows the property settings. |
| _clck, _clsk, CLID, MUID | Microsoft Clarity builds heatmaps and session replays for this site only. | First view, before you choose anything. | Cookies and recordings follow the Clarity retention policy linked in Sources. |
| Adsterra delivery cookies | Adsterra serves the in-page Native Banner 32070770 and the floating Social Bar 32070771, caps frequency and measures a campaign. | First view, before you choose anything. | Adsterra and bicea.org cookies; vendor retention |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC, PREF | YouTube plays a trailer after you press play. | Requested when you press play, not on the first page. | Google cookies once the film plays; vendor retention |
Default loading and how to withdraw
On a first visit the page loads the integrations by default and shows the banner. The banner has Accept and Reject. Accept keeps the granted record. Reject writes denied, removes the Clarity and Adsterra loaders, tells Google Analytics to deny storage, and leaves the choice in place for 180 days. Cookie settings in the footer reopens the banner so you can change the choice earlier.
If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, the guide treats the visit as denied without waiting for a click. Clearing this site's data in your browser deletes nfsu2-consent and nfsu2_adbar_closed; the next visit starts from the default again.
- The banner is a notice and a withdrawal control, not a permission gate. The default state is loaded.
- Reject is remembered for 180 days by nfsu2-consent, and Hide ad bar is remembered for 180 days by nfsu2_adbar_closed.
- Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track are read as a refusal, even when no banner has been answered.
Google Analytics 4
The guide uses Google Analytics 4 property 562125112 with Measurement ID G-ELQ8KGET05. It counts page views, referral sources, approximate country, device type and events such as outbound clicks. GA4 may store _ga and _ga_ELQ8KGET05 in first-party cookies. Google documents configurable event-data retention; no unverified property retention duration is promised here. Measurement loads by default; Reject sets analytics_storage to denied and reloads the page with the GA4 loader disabled. You can also install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Microsoft Clarity
Microsoft Clarity uses www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms and regional collection subdomains of clarity.ms (for example j.clarity.ms); project z7uhyv5zzf records heatmaps and session replays for this site only. Clarity stores _clck and _clsk, and Microsoft may also read CLID and MUID, to link a recording to a browser. Retention follows the Clarity policy linked in Sources. Password fields are masked by the product; do not type personal data into the guide. Recordings load by default; Reject sends a denied consent signal and reloads the page without the Clarity loader.
Adsterra advertising
Adsterra publisher 3403020 serves this site through website 6172070. The two units are Native Banner 32070770 and Social Bar 32070771. Adult advertising is switched off in the Adsterra panel. Adsterra uses bicea.org for the two unit loaders; creatives may also use show-creative1.com, show-sb.com, cloudpiko.com and nresystems.com. These are delivery hosts for the same advertising provider. They may set cookies or read device identifiers to cap frequency, measure a campaign and choose a creative. Ads load by default; Reject removes both unit scripts and the floating bar, then reloads with advertising disabled. You can opt out of personalized advertising at https://adssettings.google.com, https://optout.aboutads.info and https://www.youronlinechoices.com. Adsterra's own privacy notice is at https://adsterra.com/privacy-policy/.
YouTube trailer
Trailers use the youtube.com embed. The player is requested when you press the play button on a trailer card, not with the first page. Playback can also request googlevideo.com and ytimg.com media hosts. Once it plays, YouTube may set VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC and PREF and receive your IP address and device information under Google's privacy policy. Reject prevents the player from being created; Cookie settings lets you change that choice. Fonts and video posters are served locally.
Retention, choices and contact
The site uses default loading with a withdrawal control. An unanswered banner is not an affirmative consent action. Accept or Reject stores your choice, and Cookie settings lets you change it. Reject reloads the page to stop code that has already run and prevents optional vendor requests on later views.
Retention: nfsu2-consent and nfsu2_adbar_closed 180 days; GA4 and Clarity use their published retention policies and configured property settings; Adsterra and YouTube follow their own retention periods linked above.
You can ask for access, correction or erasure, object to processing, and withdraw consent at any time with Cookie settings. Write to [email protected]. The consent record lives in your browser, not in a reader database. Personalized advertising may involve sharing identifiers with the advertising provider. Reject and Global Privacy Control are the site-level opt-out; the advertising links above are the network-level opt-out. This guide does not sell personal information for money.
Changes and contact
If a script is added or removed, this page and the date under it change in the same update. The date on this policy is 2026-11-03. Questions and requests: [email protected].
FAQ
Do you run ads or analytics?
Yes. Google Analytics 4 (G-ELQ8KGET05), Microsoft Clarity (project z7uhyv5zzf) and Adsterra (Native Banner 32070770, Social Bar 32070771) load by default. Reject turns all of them off for 180 days.
What is stored on my device?
The guide writes nfsu2-consent and nfsu2_adbar_closed in localStorage for 180 days. GA4, Clarity, Adsterra and YouTube may also set their own cookies as described in the table.
How do I change my choice?
Use Cookie settings in the footer to reopen the banner, or clear this site's data in the browser. Reject is remembered for 180 days; Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track are treated as Reject.
Sources
- Google Analytics cookie usage — checked 2026-11-03
- Clarity cookie list — checked 2026-11-03
- Google Analytics 4 privacy and data retention — checked 2026-11-03
- Microsoft Clarity privacy statement — checked 2026-11-03
- Adsterra privacy policy — checked 2026-11-03
- Google and YouTube privacy policy — checked 2026-11-03
- Google ad settings — checked 2026-11-03
- DAA opt-out — checked 2026-11-03