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
Google Analytics runs with analytics storage denied unless you accept analytics cookies. Before you accept, or after you reject, Google may receive limited cookieless measurements such as the page URL, referral information, browser or device characteristics, timestamp, and consent state. If you accept analytics cookies, Google Analytics may also process information about pages you view, links or features you use, approximate location, and referral source. 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
The Google Analytics tag loads with analytics storage denied by default. Unless you select “Accept analytics,” it does not set or read Google Analytics cookies. In this denied state, Google may receive limited cookieless measurements used for basic measurement and aggregated modeling. If you reject analytics, you can still use the site normally. Your choice is stored in your browser so the site can remember it.
After you accept, Google Analytics may set first-party cookies such as _ga and _ga_* and use fuller analytics measurement. 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. Google advertising storage, advertising user data, and advertising personalization remain denied regardless of your analytics choice. 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.
- To understand traffic using limited cookieless measurement, and—with your consent—fuller analytics measurement, so we can 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. Google processes limited cookieless measurements when analytics storage is denied and fuller analytics data if you consent to analytics cookies, 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 prevents Google Analytics cookies and fuller cookie-based measurement, and removes Google Analytics cookies that the site can access in your browser. Limited cookieless measurements may continue while analytics storage is denied.
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 storage remains denied until you consent through that choice; limited cookieless measurements may be sent while storage is denied.
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.