Privacy policy
This policy explains how meanwhilein.dev handles information when you browse the comics, characters, quiz, games, and merchandise links.
The site has no accounts or submission forms and does not ask for your name, email address, or stories.
Quiz and games
Quiz answers and results, and game scores and progress, stay in your browser's JavaScript memory while the page is open. Reloading or closing the page resets them. They are not saved as player records or sent to our server or Analytics.
Optional analytics
If you select Accept analytics, the site loads Google Tag Manager (GTM-KDWFGB8X), which runs our Google Analytics 4 tag (G-X4PZ5DEKRZ). Before you accept, and after you decline, these tags do not load or send analytics data. Advertising, remarketing, Google Signals, session recording, and heatmaps are not used.
Analytics may include pages viewed, browser and device type, approximate region, referral source, and approved interactions such as comic or character views and Etsy-link clicks. Visiting quiz and game pages may be counted, but answers, results, scores, and progress are not sent. We do not send names, email addresses, form contents, or other personally identifying information to GA4, and we do not set a GA4 User-ID.
When analytics is accepted, GA4 may set first-party cookies such as _ga. Your analytics choice is the only preference we save in local storage so we can remember it across pages and visits. You can reopen Analytics preferences in the footer at any time. Withdrawing consent blocks further analytics on reload and removes applicable first-party _ga cookies where the browser allows it.
Site delivery and external links
Our hosting infrastructure may process technical request and security information needed to deliver and protect the website, such as IP address, request details, and security signals. Etsy is a separate website; if you follow a merchandise link, Etsy's own privacy practices apply.
Your choices and questions
Analytics is optional. You can decline it, continue using the site, or change your choice at any time through the footer control. We do not sell or rent personal information. For privacy questions, email acorona@meanwhilein.dev. If you email us, we use your message and email address only to reply to you.
Policy updates
We may update this policy when the site or its tools change. The effective date above will change when we publish an update. We do not state a specific GA4 retention period here because the property's actual setting has not been verified.