Cookie Policy

Last updated: October 29, 2024

What This Policy Covers

Ahoy there! This Cookie Policy explains how Booty ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies when ye visit booty.fun. We believe in being straightforward about what data we collect and why—no hidden treasure maps here.

What Be These Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites store on your device when you visit them. Think of them like tiny notes tucked in yer ship's logbook—they help the website remember things about your voyage, like your preferences or whether you've sailed these waters before.

We also use similar technologies like local storage, which works like cookies but can hold a bit more cargo and doesn't automatically get sent back to our servers with every request.

Our Cookie Chest

We keep things simple at Booty—no need fer a whole fleet of trackers. Here's exactly what treasures we store in our cookie chest:

Analytics Cookies (Google Analytics)

What it does: Helps us chart the waters—understand how crew members navigate our platform, which pages be the most popular ports, how long visitors stay aboard, and where our traffic sails from.
Why we need it: This data helps us improve Booty and create a better voyage for you and other users. For example, if we see everyone abandoning ship on a certain page, we know there might be stormy waters there that need fixing.
What's collected: Page views, session duration, bounce rate, general location (country/city level), device type, and browser information. We've enabled IP anonymization, which means yer full IP address never gets recorded in our logbook.
How long it lasts: Up to 26 months from yer last visit.
Third party: Google Analytics (Google Ireland Limited). They have their own privacy practices, which ye can read about at policies.google.com/privacy.

Consent Preference Storage

What it does: Remembers whether ye've accepted our cookie banner, so we don't keep hoisting the same flag every time ye come aboard.
Why we need it: We respect yer choice and don't want to pester ye with the same banner on every voyage. This is a necessary bit that makes yer experience smoother sailing.
What's stored: A simple "aye" or "nay" about whether ye accepted cookies, plus the date ye made that choice. No personal data—not even yer pirate name.
How long it lasts: 13 months. After that, we'll ask ye again to make sure ye still be in agreement.
Stored locally: This information stays on yer device using yer browser's local storage—it doesn't get sent to any servers. It stays aboard yer own ship.

What We Don't Do (The Pirate's Code)

It's equally important to explain what we don't use cookies for. These be the lines we won't cross:

We don't plunder your data.

  • No advertising cookies: We don't track ye to show ads or sell yer data to scallywag advertisers. That ain't our way.
  • No personalization tracking: We don't build profiles about ye or try to personalize content based on yer journeys across different websites. Yer business is yer own.
  • No cross-site tracking: We only look at what happens on booty.fun, not what ye do elsewhere on the high seas of the internet.
  • No selling data: We don't sell, rent, or share yer analytics data with anyone except Google Analytics (which processes it for us). A pirate's word is their bond.

Ye Be the Captain

You're in control of yer own ship. Here's how ye can manage cookies and steer yer own course:

Browser Controls

Most web browsers let ye control cookies through their settings—like adjusting yer ship's sails. Ye can usually find these options in the "Settings," "Options," or "Preferences" menu. Here's where to navigate in popular browsers:

  • Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
  • Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
  • Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Cookies and website data
  • Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Cookies and site data

Keep in mind that if ye block all cookies, some features might not work properly—like trying to sail with no wind in yer sails.

Opt Out of Google Analytics

If ye want to sail the web without being tracked by Google Analytics on any website (not just ours), ye can install Google's official opt-out browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Change Course (Reset Your Consent)

Want to change yer mind about cookies? Just clear yer browser's cookies and local storage for booty.fun, and the consent banner will appear again next time ye visit. No hard feelings, matey!

Different Waters, Different Rules (EU/EEA)

If ye be sailing from the European Union or European Economic Area, we treat yer privacy with extra care—like precious cargo. By default, we won't set analytics cookies until ye explicitly accept them via the cookie banner. We use Google Consent Mode v2 to ensure we're following the GDPR code of conduct.

For visitors from outside these regions, analytics cookies are enabled by default (but ye can still opt out using the methods described above).

Booty-Specific Details

Since Booty is a platform for crypto-backed bounties for creators, ye might wonder if we track anything related to:

  • Your wallet: Nay. Cookie data is completely separate from any blockchain interactions. We don't mix yer web footprints with yer wallet address.
  • Your bounty activity: Not through cookies. When the platform launches, bounty creation and claiming happens on-chain, which is public blockchain data—but that's not related to website cookies. That be a different ledger entirely.
  • Your creator preferences: Not yet, matey. Right now, we're just a landing page. When the app launches, we might use cookies to remember things like yer preferred creators, but we'll update this policy first and let ye know.

Updates to This Policy

We'll update this Cookie Policy if we change what cookies we use or why we use them. When we do, we'll update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. If it's a major change, we'll make it obvious—potentially with a notification banner or updated consent flow. No sneaky business.

We recommend checking back occasionally, especially before major platform launches (like when our web app sets sail).

Questions? Hail Us!

If ye have questions about how we use cookies or anything in this policy isn't clear, feel free to send us a message in a bottle. Ye can reach us through:

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