1. Scope
This Privacy Policy applies to Big Walk Guide at bigwalkguide.space. Big Walk Guide is an independent fan-made website and is not operated by, sponsored by, or affiliated with House House or Panic.
2. Information We Process
Information you provide
If you email us, we receive your email address, the contents of your message, and any information you choose to include. The site does not currently provide user accounts, comments, payments, or newsletter registration.
Technical information
When you visit the site, hosting, content-delivery, and security systems may automatically process technical request data such as your IP address, browser and device type, requested pages, referring page, timestamps, and diagnostic or security events.
Optional analytics information
If you accept analytics cookies, Google Analytics may process information about pages you view, links or features you use, approximate location, referral source, and browser or device characteristics. Big Walk Guide does not use Google Analytics to create user accounts or ask for your name or contact details.
3. Cookies, Analytics, and Advertising
Google Analytics is optional. Its tag does not load unless you select “Accept analytics” in our consent notice. If you reject analytics, you can use the site normally and no Google Analytics tag is loaded. Your choice is stored in your browser so the site can remember it.
After consent, Google Analytics may set first-party cookies such as _ga and _ga_*. We configure these analytics cookies with a maximum lifetime of 13 months from the date you consent and do not renew that lifetime on later visits. We keep Google advertising storage and personalization signals disabled. We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Essential hosting and security services may still use strictly necessary storage or process request data to deliver the site and prevent abuse. These operations are separate from the optional Google Analytics choice.
4. How and Why We Use Information
- To deliver, maintain, and troubleshoot the website.
- To protect the site, its visitors, and its infrastructure from abuse.
- With your consent, to understand traffic and improve the usefulness of our guides.
- To respond when you contact us.
- To comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms of Service.
Where applicable data-protection law requires a legal basis, we rely on our legitimate interests in operating and securing the site, your consent where requested, and compliance with legal obligations.
5. When Information May Be Shared
Technical information may be processed by service providers that host, deliver, secure, or maintain the website. If you consent to analytics, Google processes analytics data for us under Google Analytics terms. You can read the Google Privacy Policy. We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to valid legal process, protect rights or safety, investigate abuse, or complete a business transfer. We do not authorize service providers to use information for their own advertising purposes.
6. Retention and Security
Technical logs are retained according to the operational and security schedules of the services that process them and only for as long as reasonably necessary. Google Analytics event-level data is retained according to our Analytics property setting for no longer than 14 months; aggregated reports may be retained longer. Your consent choice remains in your browser until you change it, clear browser storage, or the storage is otherwise removed. Email correspondence is retained while needed to answer the request, maintain appropriate records, or meet legal obligations. We use reasonable safeguards, but no internet service can guarantee absolute security.
7. International Processing
The providers used to operate the site may process information in countries other than your own. Where required, appropriate safeguards will be used for international transfers.
8. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, or an objection to certain processing, and to withdraw consent. You may also have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority. We do not discriminate against anyone for exercising a privacy right.
Use “Cookie settings” in the website footer to reject analytics or change your choice at any time. Rejecting analytics disables further Google Analytics collection from this site and removes Google Analytics cookies that the site can access in your browser.
To make a request, email privacy@bigwalkguide.space. We may need to verify your request before acting on it.
9. Children's Privacy
The site is a general-audience game guide and does not knowingly request personal information from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, email us so we can review and delete it where appropriate.
10. External Links and Do Not Track
The site links to third-party websites whose privacy practices are governed by their own policies. Big Walk Guide relies on the explicit analytics choice described above rather than responding differently to browser Do Not Track signals. Google Analytics remains blocked until you consent through that choice.
11. Changes and Contact
We may update this policy when the site or its legal obligations change. Material changes will be shown here with a revised effective date. Questions and privacy requests can be sent to privacy@bigwalkguide.space.