Privacy Policy

This policy explains how QuestFern handles information. There is no visitor account system. Map and checklist progress stays in your browser; hosting, analytics, advertising and embedded services can receive the information described below when they are used.

What the site stores in your browser

These items are kept in your browser's local storage. They are never sent to QuestFern and can be cleared from your browser settings, or with the reset buttons on the pages themselves.

• Shrine checklist and map progress — which shrines you have ticked off.
• Display preferences — light or dark theme, and whether you dismissed a banner.
• Your usage-analytics choice and its date, so that your choice can be remembered. A configured consent provider may store its own advertising-consent record.

Advertising

Google AdSense advertising is not currently enabled. If we enable it, Google and other advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, browser or device identifiers, and information about pages and ads viewed to deliver, measure and personalize advertising, subject to the choices available to you.

You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google Ads Settings, and out of many other vendors' personalised ads at aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.eu. How Google uses information from sites that use its services is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

When advertising consent settings are available, open Privacy settings and choose Advertising choices to review or withdraw your decision. Advertising stays off when the required consent signals are missing or denied. Accepting usage analytics does not grant advertising consent.

Advertising (Adsterra)

Selected guide pages show banner advertising served by Adsterra (adsterra.com). To deliver and measure the ads and limit how often you see the same one, Adsterra and the advertisers it works with may receive your IP address, browser and device details, the page you are viewing, and cookies or similar identifiers. How that data is handled is described in Adsterra's privacy policy.

If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, or your location cannot be determined, these ads load only after you allow advertising in Privacy settings. Elsewhere they load by default, and you can turn them off at any time in Privacy settings. Pages hidden from Google, the interactive maps, drafts and untranslated fallback pages carry no ads. Allowing usage analytics does not allow advertising, and the other way round.

Analytics

When configured, Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity load only after you allow usage analytics in Privacy settings if you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, or if your location cannot be determined. Elsewhere they load by default, and you can turn them off at any time in Privacy settings. To decide which applies, the page asks Cloudflare for your country or region; the result is kept only for the current browser session. They receive information such as the page URL, browser or device details and online identifiers; Google describes its use of IP addresses in its privacy documentation. Clarity records interactions such as clicks and scrolling as heatmaps and session replays. This data should not be treated as completely anonymous. You can reject analytics or withdraw later using Privacy settings; withdrawal reloads the page to stop already loaded scripts and removes this integration’s first-party analytics cookies, without deleting map or checklist progress. Data already sent is not recalled. See the Google services privacy information and Microsoft Privacy Statement.

If enabled, Cloudflare Web Analytics measures site traffic without analytics cookies. Cloudflare also processes request information to host and protect the site.

Other third parties that load on some pages

• Cloudflare hosts the site and processes basic request data — IP address, browser type, requested page — for delivery and security.
• Embedded videos (YouTube, Bilibili). Pages with a video show only a thumbnail, loaded from i.ytimg.com, or from hdslb.com on Simplified Chinese pages that embed Bilibili. The player itself loads from youtube-nocookie.com or player.bilibili.com only after you press play; until then neither player loads and no YouTube cookies are set.
• Links to other sites. Guides link to sources, creators and official pages. Those sites have their own policies.

Cookies

Optional analytics and advertising services may use cookies or other storage. You can change the site’s optional choices through Privacy settings without clearing map progress. Browser settings can also block or delete cookies; deleting site data may remove your saved map and checklist progress.

Children

QuestFern is a general-audience site. It is not directed at children under 13.

Questions and changes

Questions about this policy: hello@questfern.com. When the policy changes, the new version is posted here with a new date at the top of the page.