Privacy

Last updated November 11, 2026. This page covers darrellbest.com. Each game keeps its own policy at /games/<slug>/privacy/.

Accounts and data the site collects

The site does not offer accounts, sign-in, or a user database. It does not ask for your name, email, or payment details. Pages are static files. The site itself does not collect personal information.

The site does not run its own analytics script, and the pages do not include a tracking snippet. Cloudflare Web Analytics is on for this site. Cloudflare injects it automatically. It is privacy-first and does not use cookies, and it does not follow you across other websites. GitHub Pages, which hosts the site, may also keep ordinary server logs such as IP address, browser, and the page requested. Those logs are the host's, not a database this site runs.

Advertising

Blog pages may show third-party advertising from Google AdSense, EthicalAds, or both. Ads, when they run, are a single in-content unit labeled Advertisement. The site does not use pop-ups, interstitials, sticky or anchor units, or auto-playing ads. The homepage hero, the products page, and game pages do not carry ad units.

The homepage and the blog index include an AdSense account meta tag so the site can be re-verified. The AdSense script on blog posts is commented out and does not load, because that account is deactivated. A reserved slot on blog pages stays empty until js/ads-config.js names a network and a client id. That configuration is null, and ads.txt has no publisher line.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this site and other sites on the Internet.

You can opt out of personalized ads at https://www.google.com/settings/ads. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at https://www.aboutads.info.

If EthicalAds is turned on later, its client loads only into that reserved slot. EthicalAds serves contextual ads and does not use cookies to profile you across the web.

Affiliate links

Some blog posts link to NordVPN through Darrell's affiliate program. A labeled NordVPN card can also appear on blog posts: a fuller card on posts tagged security, privacy, or VPN, and a smaller labeled spot on other posts. Those links are not placed on the homepage, the products page, or game pages.

Affiliate link: I may earn a commission if you buy through it, at no extra cost to you. Affiliate links use rel="sponsored". The affiliate partner may use its own cookies to record that the visit came from this site. This site does not receive your payment details or account data from that partner.

Cookies

The site itself does not set cookies for accounts or analytics. Cloudflare Web Analytics does not use cookies. If AdSense is turned back on, its script may set the advertising cookies described above. Your browser can block third-party cookies.

Contact

Privacy questions: support@darrellbest.com.