Privacy Policy

Overview

We built this wiki to be a small, honest reference site, and we've tried to keep the data side of it just as small and honest. There are no user accounts on this wiki, no comment system, and no gameplay data of any kind passes through this site — we simply write and publish guide content about Star Sailors.

The sections below cover the two things on this site that involve any outside data handling at all: a privacy-friendly analytics tool, and third-party advertising. If either of those ever changes in a way that affects you, we'll update this page and its "last updated" date rather than changing it silently.

Information we collect directly

If you reach out to us through the contact page, we'll use whatever information you send us (such as your email address) only to reply to you, and we won't use it for advertising or sell it to anyone.

Analytics: Plausible

We use Plausible Analytics to understand, in aggregate, which pages on this wiki get read. Plausible is built to be cookieless and privacy-friendly: it doesn't set tracking cookies, doesn't use browser fingerprinting or persistent identifiers, and doesn't collect personal data such as your name, email address, or precise location.

In practice, this means we can see broad trends — for example, that a guide page got a certain number of visits this week — without being able to tie any of that traffic back to you individually. We chose this approach specifically because it lets us make basic editorial decisions (like which guides need updating) without needing to track individual visitors.

Advertising

This site runs advertising through a third-party advertising network in order to help cover the cost of running the wiki. Like most ad-supported websites, that means some pages may display ads served by that network.

Third-party advertising networks commonly use cookies, mobile ad identifiers, or similar tracking technologies of their own to help deliver ads and measure how they perform (for example, avoiding showing you the exact same ad repeatedly, or reporting anonymized performance metrics to advertisers). Any data collected this way is handled under the ad network's own privacy policy, not ours — we don't control what a given ad partner does on its end, and we'd rather say that plainly than pretend to have more visibility into it than we do.

We don't hand our advertising partner any personal information we might have collected directly (such as a contact-form email) — the ad network's data collection, if any, happens independently through its own ad-serving technology on the pages where ads appear.

Third-party vendors, generally

Beyond analytics and advertising, a site like this one typically relies on a small number of behind-the-scenes vendors to actually run — things like web hosting and content delivery. None of those vendors are given access to personal data beyond what's technically necessary to serve you this website (for example, your device requesting a page from a server), and none of them are used by us to build advertising profiles.

Opting out of personalized ads

If you'd prefer not to see personalized advertising, you generally have a few options, depending on your device and browser. Most modern browsers let you block third-party cookies or clear existing ones in their privacy or site-settings menu, and many also support signals like "Do Not Track" or a Global Privacy Control preference, which some ad networks honor.

On mobile, both iOS and Android include a device-level setting to limit ad tracking or opt out of ads personalization (often found under your device's privacy or Google/Apple account settings) — enabling that setting applies across apps and mobile browsing, not just this site.

Where our advertising partner offers its own opt-out mechanism, it will typically be described in that partner's own privacy or advertising policy rather than ours, since it's a setting they control on their end.

A note for EU and UK visitors

If you're visiting from the European Union or the United Kingdom, advertising or analytics technologies on this site may be subject to consent requirements under applicable law (such as the GDPR, UK GDPR, or ePrivacy/PECR-style cookie rules). Where that applies, any consent prompt you see is typically presented by the relevant vendor's own consent mechanism rather than something we've custom-built ourselves.

You're always free to decline non-essential tracking where a consent option is presented, and doing so shouldn't prevent you from reading the wiki itself — none of our own content or navigation depends on advertising or analytics consent.