Cookie policy

This page lists the cookies and similar technologies used on scundered.com.

What's a cookie?

A cookie is a small file stored on your device by your browser. Cookies can persist across visits or only last for a single session. UK law (the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, "PECR") requires us to tell you about every cookie that isn't strictly necessary, and to ask for your consent before setting one.

Cookies set by this website

We've designed scundered.com to use no non-essential cookies.

The only cookies that may be set are strictly necessary for the security and delivery of the site:

Cookie	Set by	Purpose	Lifetime
__cf_bm	Cloudflare	Bot management . distinguishes humans from bots to protect the site against abuse	30 minutes
_cflb	Cloudflare	Load balancing . keeps your requests on the same server during a session	Session
cf_clearance	Cloudflare	Confirms you've passed a security challenge	Up to 1 year

These are exempt from the consent requirement under PECR Regulation 6(4)(b) because they are strictly necessary to provide the service you've requested.

Analytics . no cookies

We use Google Analytics 4 in cookieless mode (Google Consent Mode v2 with all defaults set to "denied"). No _ga, _gid, or other analytics cookies are set on your device. See the Privacy policy for what data is processed and on what basis.

Local storage

If you tap "Register your interest" on one of our app pages, we store one small functional item in your browser's local storage to remember you've already registered, so the button doesn't ask you again. It isn't a cookie, it isn't an identifier, and it never leaves your device. Local storage isn't a cookie and falls outside the cookie rules, but we list it here for transparency.

Video on our app pages

Our Mortified page (/apps/mortified) embeds one gameplay video hosted on YouTube. It is the only third-party content anywhere on this site.

We use YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). In this mode YouTube sets no cookies on your device unless you actually start the video. The player is also loaded lazily, which means your browser does not contact YouTube at all unless you scroll far enough down the page to bring it into view.

If you do press play, YouTube (Google Ireland Limited) will set its own cookies and local-storage entries to deliver and measure playback, and will receive your IP address and device information. That processing is Google's, under Google's privacy policy, and is outside our control. We receive nothing from it: no view data, no identifiers, and no report of who watched.

Because nothing is set until you choose to press play, we do not show a consent banner for it. The player itself only loads once you scroll it into view, so if you never reach it, your browser never contacts YouTube at all.

Changes to this policy

If we ever introduce non-essential cookies, we'll add a consent banner before they're set, and we'll list each one here.

Questions

Email support@scundered.com.