Privacy policy

Optional Google Analytics runs only after you allow it. Choosing Only essential keeps the site usable without analytics. You can change your choice using Privacy settings in the footer when analytics is enabled on this site.

Advertising is not active. An analytics choice is not advertising consent. Before advertising starts, we will update this policy and provide the relevant advertising choices.

We remember your region, market, game language, pinned professions and skill plans in the tgt.preferences cookie and local storage. The cookie lasts up to one year and is renewed when preferences are saved. It lets the server render the preferences you selected.

Local storage also keeps your analytics choice (tgt.analytics-consent) and the last consent-prompt time (tgt.analytics-prompt-at). These are not advertising identifiers. Local storage remains until it is replaced or you clear your browser’s site data.

Clearing site data resets saved preferences and privacy choices. Security services may also use storage needed to distinguish legitimate requests from automated abuse.

With your permission, Google Analytics measures page visits and clicks on our support link. Google receives technical information such as your IP address and browser/device information, and uses analytics cookies, including _ga cookies, to measure usage.

Our events exclude search text, URL query parameters and character names. Character-profile visits use a generic character-page address and title. External referrers are reduced to their origin. A support-link click is not treated as a completed payment.

Visits before consent are not saved for later analytics reporting. Withdrawing consent stops future analytics collection through our integration and clears this hostname’s Google Analytics cookies; it does not automatically erase information already processed by Google. Google Signals and advertising personalization are disabled in our analytics configuration.

See Google’s privacy policy and how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

We are preparing to use Google AdSense, but this version of the site does not load advertising tags or request ads. When enabled, Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, device identifiers, IP addresses and similar technologies to deliver ads, measure their performance and prevent fraud. Personalized advertising may use activity on this and other sites.

Advertising choices will be provided through a consent-management service before advertising is activated. We will not treat an existing analytics permission as permission for advertising. You can also review Google’s advertising preferences in My Ad Center.

Amazon Web Services hosts the application and stored data; Cloudflare provides network delivery and security. These services process connection information such as IP addresses, request details and browser information to deliver pages, prevent abuse and diagnose problems. This processing is separate from optional analytics.

Application diagnostics record request identifiers, route patterns, response status and timings. Our diagnostic records exclude raw query strings, request bodies, cookies and IP addresses. Infrastructure and security providers may process their own technical records.

Application log groups are configured to retain logs for 14 days. Security-provider records, backups and analytics data follow their respective service settings and purposes; they do not share this single retention period.

More information: AWS privacy notice and Cloudflare privacy policy. Service providers may process information in countries other than your own.

We store game information supplied through Blizzard’s APIs, including item and auction data, public character profiles, equipment, statistics and guild membership. These records power search, comparisons and community rankings, and may also appear in our public API and AI tools. They can be refreshed or removed as our retention rules run.

Item and character popularity uses aggregate view counts. It does not set a visitor-tracking cookie or persistent visitor identifier. Short-lived in-memory request deduplication and rate limits help reduce repeated views and abuse.

Looking up a character does not establish ownership of that character. Our public tools do not need your Blizzard password.

Support payments take place on Buy Me a Coffee under its own privacy terms. We process payment references, status and associated supporter-entitlement information to activate benefits, prevent duplicate grants and reconcile refunds. We do not receive your full card details. A supporter badge and its associated character may be public; payment history is not part of public character responses.

If you connect TGT to an AI client, that client and its provider handle your conversation under their own terms. TGT receives tool requests needed to retrieve game data, not your entire chat history through those requests. An authenticated connection, when offered, also checks the identity and permissions supplied by its login provider.

External links take you to services with their own privacy practices. See Buy Me a Coffee’s privacy policy.

For questions about this policy or requests concerning personal information, contact The Gadgetzan Times at [email protected].

Include enough information to identify the relevant record, such as a character or page URL. Do not send passwords or full payment-card details. We may ask for proportionate information to verify a request before disclosing or changing personal information.

Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal information, restrict or object to processing, withdraw consent, or complain to a data-protection authority. Withdrawing consent does not affect earlier processing based on that consent.

We update this page when our data practices change and show the revision date above. New uses that require consent will have their own choice; an earlier analytics permission will not be reused as advertising permission.