Privacy policy

This policy explains the services this site requests, browser storage and your choices. Updated 11 Nov 2026.

Who we are

The guide is published at letterboxdle.org by the Letterboxdle Guide desk. Email [email protected]. We do not run a player account system and we never ask for a game password.

What loads, and when

Pages are static. On the first page view the site requests Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and the two Adsterra placements (Native Banner and Social Bar). No stored choice means granted, so those tags do not wait for a click. The banner still appears on a first visit so you can read this page and press Reject; Reject removes the tags, closes the floating bar and is remembered for 180 days. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track are treated as Reject.

The YouTube player is an exception: a click on a video image creates a youtube-nocookie iframe. Until that click, the page does not contact YouTube. Pressing Play on the game creates a frame to letterboxdle.net, which then runs under its own policy.

Your choice and how to withdraw

The banner writes one record under the browser key lbx-consent: the value granted or denied plus an expiry 180 days out. Accept keeps everything on. Reject writes denied, removes the Clarity, Adsterra and GA4 scripts, empties the native slot and hides the floating bar. The footer link Cookie settings reopens the banner at any time, so a rejection is never permanent and an acceptance can always be withdrawn.

Cookies and similar storage

Key or cookiePurposeRetentionBasis
lbx-consentStores granted or denied plus an expiry date180 daysYour choice; lets a later page view honor Reject
lbx-adbar-closedRemembers that you closed the floating Adsterra Social Bar180 daysYour choice
_ga, _ga_*Google Analytics 4 client identifier and session stateGoogle's documented cookie default is 2 years; actual expiry can be configuredDefault loading; Reject stops our tag
_clck, _clsk, CLID, MUID, ANONCHK, MR, SMMicrosoft Clarity visitor and session identifiers for heatmaps and session replay; availability depends on browser and provider behaviorProvider-controlled cookie expiry; recording access is up to 30 days according to Microsoft's FAQDefault loading; Reject stops our tag
Adsterra and demand-partner storage (names vary)Frequency capping, fraud prevention, measurement and advertisingDefault loading; Reject stops our tags; a universal partner retention period is not published here
YouTube player storagePlayer functionality after a video is opened through youtube-nocookie.com; Google controls any storage created during playbackYour click loads the player; no fixed cookie lifetime is claimed here

Google Analytics 4

GA4 measurement ID G-JQQT80G9SV (property 563759597, stream 16316976348) is requested on each page unless you reject or send a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal. It can write the _ga and _ga_* cookies, read the page URL, referrer, a coarse location derived from IP and device information, and send that to Google. Consent Mode v2 starts before config with analytics_storage granted, ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization denied, and ads_data_redaction enabled. Google's documented cookie default is 2 years. Event retention is a separate property setting with 2- and 14-month options for a standard GA4 property; this policy does not claim a verified account-specific selection. You can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Google privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy.

Microsoft Clarity

Clarity project zbscnbmh6p is requested by default for heatmaps and session replays so we can see which parts of a guide are hard to use. Reject stops our Clarity loader. Clarity receives page URLs, clicks, scrolls and layout events; its documented cookie families include _clck, _clsk, CLID, MUID, ANONCHK, MR and SM, subject to browser and provider settings. Microsoft documents masking controls and up to 30 days of recording access. We use an email link rather than a contact form on a recorded page. Microsoft privacy statement: privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement.

Adsterra advertising

We serve two page formats from Adsterra (publisher 3403020, website 6191120): Native Banner unit 32204365 and Social Bar unit 32204366. Adult ads are switched off for this website. Adsterra and its demand partners may set cookies and similar identifiers to cap how often you see an ad, detect invalid traffic, measure a view and, where you have consented, personalize the ad. The names of those cookies are chosen by Adsterra and its partners and can change; they are not first-party keys of this site. We do not pass your email address or anything you write in a contact message to Adsterra. Adsterra privacy policy: adsterra.com/privacy-policy/.

Personalized advertising and opt-out

Reject on this site stops our Adsterra tags and remembers that choice for 180 days. To turn off personalized advertising across participating companies, use Google Ads Settings, DAA or Your Online Choices. Those pages control the ad industry's own identifiers; they do not remove cookies another site already set.

Hosting and contact email

Cloudflare provides this site's hosting and network delivery. It processes connection information such as IP addresses and request metadata to deliver pages and protect its network. These requests occur whenever you visit the site and continue if you reject optional tags. See the Cloudflare privacy policy for its processing practices.

Messages sent to [email protected] pass through Cloudflare Email Routing to the mail-hub Worker. The mail service processes the sender and recipient addresses, subject, message body and attachments to receive and handle your request. Clicking a mailto link opens your own email app; it does not send a message automatically. Reject affects browser tags and does not prevent hosting or delivery of email you send.

Retention

lbx-consent and lbx-adbar-closed expire after 180 days. Google's documented cookie default is 2 years, separately from GA4's event retention setting. Microsoft documents up to 30 days of Clarity recording access. Fixed durations for Adsterra partner storage, hosting logs and contact email are not stated because no verified site-specific schedule is available; use the contact address to request deletion of a message you sent.

Rights and changes

You can ask for a copy of any email you sent us, or for that email to be deleted, by writing to [email protected]. We do not sell personal information. Policy changes are dated on this page. The current date is 11 Nov 2026.

Questions

Does this site load Google Analytics 4 before I click Accept?

Yes. A first visit with no stored choice is treated as granted, so GA4, Clarity and Adsterra load with the page. The banner appears at the same time; Reject turns them off and stores denied for 180 days.

What is lbx-consent?

The browser storage key that records granted or denied for 180 days. Cookie settings in the footer reopens the banner so you can change the choice at any time.

How do I turn off personalized ads?

Press Reject here, then use Google Ads Settings or the DAA opt-out page for participating ad companies. Adsterra runs with adult ads switched off on this site.

Sources

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