Privacy policy

What loads, and when

The site loads analytics and advertising by default. On a first visit, before you touch the banner, the page already requests Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and Adsterra; the banner appears at the same time to tell you and to offer the withdrawal. If you press Reject, those scripts stop loading and the choice is remembered for 180 days.

Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID `G-90S31YWCR5`) runs gtag.js from googletagmanager.com. It records the page viewed, session, approximate location derived from IP, and device information. Google requests use googletagmanager.com and google-analytics.com (including regional subdomains). Measured first-view hosts on 12 Nov 2026 were www.googletagmanager.com and www.google-analytics.com. The tag starts with analytics_storage granted; ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization start denied, and ads_data_redaction is enabled before configuration. Accept can grant the advertising consent signals; Reject withdraws all four signals.

Microsoft Clarity (project `zcdpnlcv17`) requests its tag from www.clarity.ms, its runtime from scripts.clarity.ms, and collection endpoints under clarity.ms, including c.clarity.ms and r.clarity.ms; the collection subdomain can vary between visits. It produces heatmaps and session replays to help find layout problems. Input masking follows the Clarity project settings; avoid sending sensitive information through this site.

Adsterra (publisher `3403020`, website `6194045`) creates two placements from bicea.org: a Native Banner (unit `32226695`) in the article flow and a Social Bar (unit `32226696`) fixed at the bottom-right. Adult ads are switched off in the Adsterra dashboard. Adsterra and its creative partners may select ads from browsing context and use delivery, frequency-cap and anti-fraud cookies on their own domains. The first-view network check on 12 Nov 2026 observed bicea.org and no additional creative host; campaigns and their follow-up hosts can vary. Reject stops these placements on the next page load, which happens immediately after the choice.

Embedded videos use YouTube. The video cover is a local image; the YouTube privacy-enhanced mode privacy-enhanced player is requested only after you press Play. That click is your own action and is not blocked by Reject. The player may contact youtube-nocookie.com, youtube.com, googlevideo.com, ytimg.com and gstatic.com after that click. No remote player or thumbnail is requested before the click. Fonts come from your device.

Cookies and local storage

The site itself writes three localStorage keys, none of them a cookie: `ra_consent` stores your Accept/Reject choice with an expiry 180 days out; `ra_ads_closed` and `ra_ads_closed_at` store that you closed the fixed Social Bar and when, also for 180 days. The Cookie settings button in the footer reopens the choice. If the browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, the record is stored as rejected and the scripts do not load.

Google Analytics 4 commonly sets the first-party cookies `_ga` and `_ga_G-90S31YWCR5` to distinguish visitors and sessions; Google documents a default cookie lifetime of two years. GA4 event-level data retention follows the property setting; this page does not claim a verified account retention value. Microsoft Clarity documents `_clck`, `_clsk`, `CLID`, `ANONCHK`, `MR`, `MUID` and `SM`. Ordinary session playback is retained for 30 days; labeled or favorited sessions and heatmap data are retained for nine months, according to Microsoft’s retention documentation.

Adsterra and its creative domains set delivery, frequency-cap and anti-fraud cookies whose names and lifetimes are chosen per campaign and per creative host; the current list is in Adsterra’s own privacy policy linked below. The site does not guess or hard-code those names. Reject stops the Adsterra scripts from loading, but it does not delete cookies a vendor already set — clear them in your browser if you want them gone.

Your choices and rights

Press Reject in the banner, or reopen it with Cookie settings, to stop Google Analytics 4, Microsoft Clarity and Adsterra for 180 days. Accept keeps them on. Withdrawing does not remove data a vendor already received, and it does not delete existing third-party cookies.

For personalized advertising you can also opt out at Google Ads Settings, Your Online Choices in Europe, or the Network Advertising Initiative. Adsterra’s data practices are described at adsterra.com/privacy-policy.

You can ask for a copy, correction or deletion of correspondence you sent to [email protected]. That mailbox is kept only long enough to answer and fix the page. If you are in the EEA or UK you may also complain to your local data authority. Correspondence is used to answer your request and correct published facts.

Retention and changes

The consent record and the floating-bar close record expire after 180 days, after which the banner asks again. The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which processes connection and request information to deliver and secure pages; vendor retention follows the periods above and each vendor’s policy. This policy changes by editing this page and its date; the date at the top is the change notice.

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