Privacy & Cookies

The short version

Zelda 64 Central does not set cookies. There are no user accounts. The site does not collect personal data of any kind. There is an anonymous visit counter, described in full below — it cannot identify you, and you can turn it off.

What we use

• Visit counter: A first-party, anonymous page-view counter (details below). No cookies, no IP addresses stored, no fingerprinting, no identifiers of any kind. No GDPR banner is required because no personal data is collected.
• Progress tracking: If you choose to use the “My Progress” feature, your progress is saved in your browser’s localStorage only. Nothing is transmitted anywhere. Clearing your browser data will reset it. Your progress will not follow you to other devices or browsers.
• Theme and version preferences: Stored in your browser’s localStorage. Same as above.

The visit counter, in full

I want to know roughly how many people use the site, without knowing anything about who they are. So the counter is deliberately built to make that impossible.

When a page loads, your browser sends exactly this — and nothing else:

{
  "site": "z64central.com",
  "path": "/walkthrough/deku-tree/",
  "ref": "google.com",
  "pwa": false,
  "unique": true
}

• path is the page you’re on. ref is only the domain you arrived from (blank if you typed the address or came from a bookmark) — never the full URL.
• pwa is whether the site was opened from a home-screen icon.
• unique is a flag your own browser sets: it stores today’s date in localStorage and reports true only on the first page you view today. The server never works out who is “new” — your browser decides and simply says yes or no.

There are no cookies, and no identifier is sent, generated, or stored. Your IP address is not retained: the server needs it momentarily to receive the request (as every web server does), and it is excluded from logging. There is no way to link two visits to the same person.

Your browser also avoids double-counting: it remembers the last 30 minutes of pages you viewed, in localStorage, and won’t re-count a reload within that window.

localStorage keys this uses: tallySkip, tallyRecent, lastTallyDay.

Opting out: set tallySkip to 1 in your browser’s developer console and that device stops being counted, permanently:

localStorage.setItem('tallySkip', '1')

If the payload above ever changes, this page gets updated in the same commit.

Third parties

• The visit counter described above is the only place this site sends data. It is a first-party service run by me (tally-15838356607.us-central1.run.app), not a third-party analytics company. Nothing is shared with anyone.
• YouTube: some pages show a video thumbnail with a play button. Until you click it, nothing is loaded from YouTube at all — the thumbnail is served from this site, so YouTube and Google never see you. If you click play, the video is embedded in privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com) and, from that point on, playback is subject to Google’s privacy policy. Links out to YouTube are subject to the same policy.
• We may, in the future, include Amazon affiliate links. If we do, this page will be updated with the FTC-required disclosure.

Contact

For questions about this policy, email [email protected].

Last updated: 2026-09-01