Privacy policy

Who we are

The site is hookshot.pro. Privacy mail goes to [email protected]. We do not sell personal data. We do not run our own advertising network, but we do carry ads from Adsterra and we do measure visits with Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity.

Default loading, and how to turn it off

Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and the two Adsterra units load as soon as a page opens. A visitor who has never made a choice is treated as granted, and the banner tells you that while Accept and Reject are both available. The banner is not a gate: it does not wait for a click before the tags run.

Pressing Reject is the opt-out. It stores rejected for 180 days, removes the Adsterra units, sends denied consent signals, and reloads the page without requesting Google or Clarity SDKs or advertising scripts. Pressing Accept stores granted for 180 days and reloads with the tags enabled. Cookie settings in the footer opens the banner again so the choice can be changed at any time. If the browser sends Global Privacy Control, the site stores rejected without waiting for a click. Do Not Track is not read.

The stored choice controls future requests from this site. Data already transmitted before a rejection remains subject to the vendor's privacy policy and retention rules. We keep the choice for 180 days and then show the banner again.

Google Analytics 4

We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) with measurement ID G-KK4BMPD94K, loaded from googletagmanager.com. GA4 records page views, approximate location derived from IP, device and browser, referral source, and interactions such as outbound clicks. Google may set the _ga cookie (two years) and the _ga_KK4BMPD94K cookie (two years) to distinguish visitors; the data is processed by Google LLC under its own retention settings. We do not send names, email addresses, or account identifiers to GA4.

You can refuse GA4 with Reject, block googletagmanager.com, or install Google's Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout . Google's privacy policy is at https://policies.google.com/privacy .

Microsoft Clarity

We use Microsoft Clarity, project zbsvvfslhd, loaded from clarity.ms and its script and collection subdomains. Clarity records session replays, heatmaps, clicks, scroll depth, and device information so we can see which guides are hard to use. Clarity's published cookie list includes _clck and _clsk for user and session continuity and additional Microsoft service cookies listed in the linked documentation. Their availability depends on browser settings. Microsoft's FAQ says recordings are available for up to 30 days; other retention and cookie lifetimes follow Microsoft's current settings rather than a duration estimated here. Microsoft Corporation processes the data under the Microsoft Privacy Statement at https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement .

Reject sends Clarity a denied consent signal and immediately reloads into a page that does not request Clarity, stopping the running recording SDK as well as future loads.

Adsterra advertising

We carry two Adsterra placements: NativeBanner_1 (unit 32204690) inside the article flow and SocialBar_1 (unit 32204691) as the fixed bar at the bottom of the viewport. Adsterra's publisher ID is 3403020 and its website ID for this domain is 6191167. Adult advertising is switched off for this site.

Adsterra and its demand partners may set cookies or read device information to choose and measure ads, including frequency capping and fraud prevention. Requests start at bicea.org; creative hosts can rotate. Individual partner cookie names and retention periods are not fixed by this site, so no duration is estimated here. We only see aggregate advertising reports. Adsterra's privacy policy is at https://adsterra.com/privacy-policy/ .

You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings https://adssettings.google.com/ , at https://optout.aboutads.info/ , or at https://www.youronlinechoices.com/ . Reject on this site removes both units and is remembered for 180 days. The fixed bar also has its own × button, which hides the bar and writes hs_float_closed so it stays hidden after a reload.

YouTube

Some guides show a video. We host the preview image ourselves and create the YouTube privacy-enhanced player only when you press Play, so the player is not requested on page load. After that click, YouTube (Google LLC) receives playback and device information and may use storage according to Google's current player policies. Reject also blocks the player: after a rejection the Play button explains that video is off until you change the choice. You can withhold the player request by not pressing Play.

Cookies and local storage on this site

We write two local-storage keys of our own. hs_consent holds {"choice":"granted" or "rejected","exp":} and expires after 180 days. hs_float_closed holds "1" when you close the bottom bar; it has no expiry and stays until you clear site data. Neither key is sent to a server. Cookie settings in the footer rewrites hs_consent, and clearing site data removes both keys.

The third-party cookies described above are set by Google, Microsoft, and Adsterra, not by us. Hosting logs on the server that delivers the site may keep an IP address and a user agent for a short security window; we do not operate that log as a profile and our pages do not add a tracker to it.

Your rights and changes

You can email [email protected] to ask for access, correction, deletion, or a copy of any message you sent us. We answer at that address. If you are in a region with a supervisory authority, you may also complain to it. This page's date is the change log: a material change updates the date and the sentence that describes the new vendor. The current version was checked against the scripts in the build on 11 Nov 2026.

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