Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files a site can ask your browser to store and send back later. They are often used for sign-in, preferences, measurement, or advertising. Similar technologies include local storage, which is a browser store that scripts can read without automatically sending the data to a server on every request.

Types of Cookies

People often group cookies as essential, preference, analytics, and advertising cookies. This policy uses those names so you can see which groups apply. A group that is not used is named so the absence is clear.

Essential Cookies

The scripts on this fan site do not set essential cookies. Navigation, accordions, search, and filters work without writing a cookie. There is no sign-in session to maintain.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies are not used. The pages do not include a measurement tag, and they do not set a cookie to count visits.

Advertising Cookies

Advertising cookies are not used. The site does not run ads and does not set a cookie to profile you for advertising.

Third-Party Cookies

The site requests font stylesheets and font files from Google Fonts. That is a connection to Google, which may process technical data such as your IP address under Google's policies. The fan site does not set a cookie as part of that request and does not receive a cookie report from Google. Whether Google sets or reads its own cookies during a font request is controlled by Google and by your browser, not by a preference switch on this site.

Local Storage

Local storage is used only after you submit the form on the contact page or the guides page. The key is oth-notes. The value is a list of up to twenty messages, including the name, email address, topic, subject, and message you entered. The home page and about page short forms do not write this key. They only move some fields to the contact page. You can remove the list with Remove saved messages. Clearing site data in the browser removes it as well.

Cookie Duration

Because the site's scripts do not set cookies, they do not define a cookie lifetime. Local storage entries remain until you delete them or until newer entries push the list past twenty items. They do not expire on a timer set by this site.

Cookie Preferences

There is no cookie banner on this site. A banner would be decorative, because there is no optional analytics or advertising cookie under this site's control to accept or reject. The choice you do have is whether to submit a form, which is what creates the local storage entry, and whether to allow your browser to request third-party font files.

Managing Cookies

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. That control will not find a cookie created by this site's scripts, because they do not create one. To stop font requests, use your browser's controls for third-party content or a content blocker. The words of the site remain available if a font does not load; the typeface may change. To remove saved messages, use the button on the contact page or the guides page, or clear site data for this origin.

Changes to Cookie Policy

If the site later sets cookies or adds analytics or advertising, this policy and the privacy policy will be updated to match, and a real choice will be added if the law requires consent for that new tool. Until then, the description above is the whole of the storage behavior.

Contact Information

Questions about storage can be sent to [email protected], by phone on +44 20 3997 1391, or by post to Hayes, Uxbridge, UB11 1FW, United Kingdom. The contact form also keeps a copy on your device and should open a draft to the same email. This is an independent fan website dedicated to over the hill. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to the game's developers or publishers.

Local storage and the email draft, side by side

Cookies and local storage are different tools, and this site uses only one of them for its own scripts. The scripts do not set cookies. After you submit the form on Contact or Guides, they write oth-notes in local storage. At the same moment they ask the browser to open a mailto link to [email protected]. The mailto link is not a cookie. It is an instruction to your email application. If you block pop-ups or have no mail app, the local copy can still exist even though the draft never appeared. Check the list on the page. Remove it if you did not mean to keep it.

The short forms on the home page and the about page do not write oth-notes. They only place your name, email, and topic into the address of the contact page. That address can remain in your history until you clear it. It is not a cookie set by this site, but it is data in the browser, and you should treat a shared computer accordingly. Anyone who can open that history can see the name and the email you typed. The fan site cannot clear your history from Hayes. You clear it in the browser.

Google Fonts, in practical terms

Each page requests a stylesheet from fonts.googleapis.com so the headings and the body text can use the typefaces chosen for the layout. Your browser then requests the font files. Google may process the connection, including an IP address, under Google's own rules. This fan site does not receive a report of that request and does not set a cookie in order to make it. If you block third-party requests, the words remain and the typeface may fall back to a standard font. The meaning of the privacy policy and these terms does not depend on the font succeeding.

The JPEG illustrations are loaded from this same website, not from an advertising network. Requesting hero.jpg or logo.jpg is a request for a file of this fan site. It is not a tracking pixel. The files are drawings. Their format is JPEG because the pages are meant to use an ordinary image type. Loading them does not tell this site which guide you preferred, because the pages do not run an analytics beacon alongside the image.

What is not present

There is no analytics cookie, no advertising cookie, no social plug-in, and no embedded store. There is no preference centre, because there is no optional cookie of ours to switch off. A banner with Accept and Reject buttons would be decorative, and this policy refuses a decorative banner. Your real controls are the browser's cookie settings, the browser's controls for third-party content, and the Remove saved messages button. Those controls do different jobs. Use the one that matches the storage you want to stop.

If a browser extension adds its own cookie or its own script, that extension is not part of this fan site. The pages do not ask for it. A network operator that injects content is equally outside this policy. What the policy describes is the files this site actually publishes: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JPEG drawings, plus the font request and the local save after a form. The phone +44 20 3997 1391 and the address in Hayes do not set cookies. They are contact details, explained in the privacy policy.

How long things stay

A cookie lifetime is not defined by this site, because no cookie is set by its scripts. A local storage entry stays until you delete it, until you clear site data, or until a newer entry pushes the list past twenty items. An email you send is no longer a cookie question. It is a correspondence question, described in the privacy policy, and it can be raised with [email protected] or by post to Hayes, Uxbridge, UB11 1FW, United Kingdom. The phone number +44 20 3997 1391 is available for the same subject. None of these routes is a setting inside the game.

Twenty messages is a cap, not a promise that twenty will be kept forever. The newest submission is placed first. An older one can fall off the end of the list. Falling off the list on one browser does not delete an email you already sent. It also does not delete a copy on a different browser. If you used a library computer, remove the list before you leave. The button is on Contact and on Guides. Both buttons clear the same key.

Changes

If a future version of the site sets a cookie, this policy will name it, say why it is there, say how long it lasts, and say whether a choice is required before it is stored. Until that version exists, the description in the sections above is complete. The date at the top of the page is the date of this text. The independent-status notice still applies: this is an independent fan website dedicated to over the hill. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to the game's developers or publishers.

A change of image format, which these pages have made by publishing JPEG files instead of vector drawings, is not a change in cookies. The files are still first-party images. If a later change embedded a third-party gallery or a video host, this policy would have to name that host. It does not name one now, because no such embed is present. Questions about that reading can go to [email protected] or to Hayes, Uxbridge, UB11 1FW, United Kingdom.

A plain summary

This fan site does not set its own cookies. It does not use analytics cookies or advertising cookies, so it does not show a consent banner for a choice it cannot perform. It does store up to twenty form messages in local storage after you press Save and open email, and it does ask your email app to open a draft to [email protected]. It does request fonts from Google when a page loads. You can delete the local messages on Contact or Guides, block third-party font requests in your browser, and manage any cookies your browser or extensions set by using the browser's own settings. The phone +44 20 3997 1391 and the postal address Hayes, Uxbridge, UB11 1FW, United Kingdom, are contact details, not cookies. They reach this fan site only.

If that summary is enough, the earlier sections are there when you want the reason. If a tool on your network reports a cookie that this policy does not name, the likely cause is something outside these files. Write to the fan site if you believe a file we publish sets a cookie we have not described. The correction, if one is needed, belongs in this policy before any banner is added. A banner will be added only when there is a real optional cookie to accept or refuse. Until then, the honest page is a page without a decorative switch.