Starsand Island Companion Hub (“we”, “this site”) is an independent fan-made guide website. This policy explains what information is collected when you visit, how it is used, and the choices you have — including how cookies and third-party advertising work on this site.
Information we collect
This site does not require accounts, sign-ups, or any personal information to read guides or use the tools. Interactive tools on this site (such as the crop profit calculator) run entirely in your browser — the values you enter are never transmitted to or stored on our servers.
Like most websites, our hosting provider (Cloudflare) automatically processes standard server logs (IP address, browser type, pages requested) for security and reliability purposes.
Cookies and identifiers
This site uses cookies and similar identifiers (such as local storage and device identifiers) for the following purposes:
Analytics. We use privacy-friendly analytics (Umami, self-hosted) to understand aggregate traffic — which guides are read, roughly where visitors come from, and which devices are used. This measurement is cookieless where possible and is never used to identify individual visitors.
Advertising. When advertising is enabled, cookies are used to serve and measure ads, as described in the next section.
You can control or delete cookies at any time through your browser settings. Blocking cookies will not prevent you from reading any content on this site.
Third-party advertising and Google AdSense
This site may display advertising served by third-party vendors, including Google. Important points about how that works:
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of other third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info/choices.
Where required by law (for example, for visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland), we present a consent choice before personalized ads are served, and non-personalized ads are shown if you decline.
Interest-based advertising (IBA) disclosure
If personalized advertising is enabled on this site, ads may be selected based on your interests inferred from your browsing activity across websites (interest-based advertising). We only use advertising data as permitted by the relevant ad network’s terms, and we do not combine ad data with personally identifying information such as your name or email address — we never collect those in the first place.
Data we do not collect
We do not collect your name, email address, phone number, precise location, or any sensitive categories of data. We do not sell, rent, or share personal data with data brokers. We do not use sensitive topics (health, religion, sexual orientation, and similar) for ad targeting or audience building.
Children
This site is a general-audience game guide and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, the updated version will be posted on this page with a revised date. Significant changes (such as enabling advertising for the first time) will be reflected here before they take effect.
Contact
Questions about this policy? Reach us via the contact page.