Privacy policy

Who we are

warzone.run is an independent guide to Call of Duty: Warzone. The data controller for this site is the operator of warzone.run, reachable at [email protected]. We do not sell personal information, and we do not run a login, checkout, comment box, or newsletter form.

What loads, and when

Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and Adsterra load on the first page view, not after a click. The cookie banner is a notice with Accept and Reject buttons, not a gate: a visitor with no stored choice is treated as granted, the tags start immediately, and the banner explains what is running and how to withdraw. Choosing Reject stores the refusal for 180 days and reloads this page, which stops existing vendor scripts, timers and frames. A later Accept turns them back on.

Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-HYJ7JLM04Y) loads gtag.js from www.googletagmanager.com and sends page-view and event data to www.google-analytics.com and region1.google-analytics.com. It sets the _ga and _ga_ cookies, which distinguish browsers and sessions. We use it for aggregate page counts, referrers, and which guides are read; we do not enable Google Signals, advertising features, or user-ID tracking.

Microsoft Clarity (project zbdgol4fzj) loads the Clarity tag from www.clarity.ms and scripts.clarity.ms, and sends heatmap and session-replay data to *.clarity.ms. Clarity records clicks, scrolls, and page rendering; form inputs and other sensitive fields are masked by Clarity's default masking. We use it to see which parts of a guide are hard to read or use.

Adsterra (publisher 3403020) serves two units on this site: NativeBanner_1 (unit 32190338) in the in-feed slot above the footer, and SocialBar_1 (unit 32190339), the floating bar at the bottom-right. The loader scripts come from bicea.org, and the creatives and measurement requests go to bicea.org and the ad CDNs it selects at request time (for example cdn.show-creative1.com, cdn.show-sb.com, cdn.cloudpiko.com, or static.nresystems.com). Adsterra sets its own unit cookie, co__191, and Cloudflare sets __cf_bm for bot protection. Adult ads are switched off on this website.

YouTube is the only media embed. A stored Reject blocks the player and reopens Cookie settings when you press play. There is no YouTube script in the initial HTML: pressing a video's play button inserts an iframe to www.youtube.com/embed/, and YouTube may then set its own cookies. Videos are optional and the page works without pressing play.

No other third party runs here. This build does not load Google AdSense, a traffic-mesh or banner SDK, a pop-under, a smartlink, or a second ad network.

Cookies and local storage

The table lists the keys this site or its live integrations set. Third-party keys can change when a vendor updates its product; the vendor links below describe the current set.

Why we process this data

We rely on your consent for Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity, Adsterra advertising, and the YouTube player. Consent is assumed on the first visit so the page can measure and fund itself, the banner records that choice, and Reject withdraws it for 180 days. You can reopen the banner at any time with Cookie settings in the footer.

We rely on legitimate interests for security and fraud prevention: Cloudflare bot management on ad requests, and server logs that keep the site online. These checks are not used to build a profile of you.

Adsterra may personalize ads using the unit cookie and the page context. If you do not want personalized advertising, use the opt-out links below; the site will still show contextual ads, which do not use a profile. Turning off personalized ads is separate from Reject: Reject stops the Adsterra units on this site entirely.

Your choices and opt-outs

Reject in the banner, or Cookie settings in the footer followed by Reject, stops Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity, and both Adsterra units in this browser and stores the refusal in wz_consent for 180 days. Accept reverses it. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, we store a refusal without showing the choice first.

You can also block or delete cookies in your browser. Deleting wz_consent makes the next visit look new, so the default-on behavior applies again until you choose Reject.

For personalized advertising, use Google Ads Settings at https://adssettings.google.com, the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out at https://optout.aboutads.info, the Network Advertising Initiative at https://optout.networkadvertising.org, or the European EDAA choice page at https://www.youronlinechoices.com. For Clarity, Microsoft's privacy statement and the Clarity opt-out guidance are at https://privacy.microsoft.com and https://learn.microsoft.com/clarity. For Google Analytics, Google's opt-out add-on is at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Retention, transfers, and security

We keep the two warzone.run localStorage keys until they expire or you clear them. Google Analytics 4 keeps user-level event data for 2 months by default and aggregate reports longer; the retention period configured for this property determines the actual user-level duration. Microsoft Clarity keeps recordings and heatmaps for up to 30 days and aggregate metrics for its standard retention period. Adsterra and its Cloudflare bot check keep the cookies listed above for 7 days and 30 minutes respectively. YouTube keeps its keys under Google's retention rules.

Google, Microsoft, Adsterra, Cloudflare, and YouTube process data in the United States and other countries. Their contracts use standard contractual clauses or an equivalent transfer mechanism where required. We choose vendors that publish a data-processing addendum, and we do not send them names, email addresses, or payment data because the site collects none.

The site is served over HTTPS. Access to the analytics and ad dashboards is limited to the operator and protected by the providers' account security.

Your rights and how to use them

If you are in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, you can ask for access, correction, deletion, restriction, or portability of personal data, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interests. If you are in California, you can ask to know, delete, or correct personal information, and to opt out of sale or sharing; we do not sell personal information. To make a request, email [email protected] with the subject Privacy request. We reply from that address, usually within 30 days.

You can complain to your local data-protection authority. In the EEA, the authority in your country of residence or work is the usual contact; in the UK it is the Information Commissioner's Office at https://ico.org.uk.

Changes to this policy

We change this page in the same commit that changes the scripts or ad units, and we update the date at the top. The current version always describes the live build. The privacy-policy, cookie-policy, and cookies paths redirect here.

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