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Privacy policy

What this site collects, who else receives it, and how to say no. Last updated 2 November 2026.

The short version

WARDOGS Hub is a fan site. You can read all of it without signing in or telling us anything about you. If you sign in with Discord to publish something, we get your Discord name, avatar, ID and email address. If you post a comment or a report without signing in, we keep what you wrote and a scrambled code that changes every day, never your IP address. On top of that, Google Analytics measures visits and Raptive serves the ads; both set cookies, and in the UK, the EEA and Switzerland they ask you first. The Wardogs Hub mobile app has no accounts; it shows Google AdMob ads and, if you turn them on, sends push notifications (details below).

Who runs this site

WARDOGS Hub is an independent fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by BULKHEAD or Team17. For anything about this policy, contact hello@wardogshub.gg or use the contact page.

What we collect directly

If you only read

Nothing that identifies you. If you email us, we keep that email to reply to it and for no other purpose.

If you post without signing in

Outage reports and comments on the status page, comments on loadouts, votes, and feedback on our tools can all be sent without an account. We store what you submit (the problem you picked, your comment text, your vote, your feedback and the calculator settings attached to it) along with the time.

To stop one person flooding the page, each submission also carries a code made from your IP address, a secret key and the day's date, scrambled one way. It cannot be turned back into your IP address, and it changes at midnight UTC, so it cannot follow you from one day to the next. We never store the IP address itself.

Comments are public and moderated. Reports, votes and tool feedback are only shown as totals. They are kept until a moderator removes them; because they are not linked to you, we cannot find yours later unless you can point us to it.

If you sign in with Discord

Signing in is needed to write a community guide, publish a loadout, list a game server, suggest a map marker, open a support thread, or comment under your name. Discord shares four things with us: your user ID, your display name, your avatar and your email address. We do not receive your password, your servers or anything else on your profile.

Your display name and avatar appear as the byline on what you publish, which is why we ask for them. Your user ID ties your drafts, builds and listings to you so nobody else can edit them. Your email address stays in our sign-in system: it is not shown on the site, not added to any mailing list, and not used to contact you.

What you then submit is stored with your account: guide drafts (visible only to you and the reviewers until published), loadouts, server listings, marker suggestions and comments (public once published or approved), and support messages (visible only to you and the moderators). A server listing's contact field is read by moderators and never published. Images you upload are stored on our server at a public link, in a folder named after your account ID; server logos and banners have their photo data (such as location) stripped first.

Voting for a community server also needs a Discord sign-in. Each vote is stored with your account and the day. The owner of a server you voted for can see your Discord user ID, when you last voted for their server and how many times in all, so they can hand out rewards such as a Discord role (see vote rewards). They can look up one ID or list everyone who voted in the last 30 days. They learn nothing else: not your name, your email, or your votes for other servers.

Ask us and we will delete your account. Guides, listings and comments you published stay up with your name removed, unless you ask for those to go too. Tell us which on the contact page.

Cookies and storage on your device

The site itself sets two cookies, and only when you do something that needs them:

  • a sign-in cookie, once you sign in with Discord, cleared when you sign out;
  • a shopping-cart cookie, once you add something in the shop, kept for 30 days.

It also keeps a few things in your browser's local storage, which never leave your device: which ad layout you are shown (we test a few; not stored in Europe), the marks you draw on the interactive maps, your artillery calculator board, and a backup of any guide you are writing. Analytics and advertising cookies are covered below.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages are useful. It records things like the pages you view, roughly where in the world you are, and what kind of device and browser you use. IP addresses are anonymised. Google handles that data under its own privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

In the UK, the EEA and Switzerland, analytics storage is denied by default through Google Consent Mode, and nothing analytics-related is stored on your device until you allow storing information on your device in the consent message. Everywhere else analytics runs by default, and you can switch it off with Google's opt-out browser add-on.

Advertising

CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive's data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/

Raptive and its advertising partners use cookies and similar technologies to measure ads and, where allowed, to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.

  • In the UK, the EEA and Switzerland, advertising cookies are denied by default and are only set if you consent in Raptive's consent message.
  • In US states with privacy laws, including California, a Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link appears in the site footer. Use it to opt out of the sale or sharing of your data for advertising.
  • You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings, or opt out of third-party vendors at aboutads.info.
  • 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. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

The shop, affiliate links and videos

The shop runs on Fourthwall. Our server tells Fourthwall what is in your cart; when you check out you are on Fourthwall's site, which collects your name, address and payment details under its own privacy policy. We see orders, not your card.

Some articles link to products on Amazon. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and earn from qualifying purchases; Amazon may set its own cookies when you follow one of those links.

Embedded YouTube videos load nothing from YouTube until you press play, and then play from youtube-nocookie.com. Avatars on guides, loadouts and comments load from Discord's servers.

Consent, and how to change your mind

If you are in the UK, the EEA or Switzerland, you are shown one consent message, run by Raptive, before any analytics or advertising cookie is set. It covers the advertising purposes and vendors, and Google Analytics only runs with cookies if you allow storing information on your device in it. Everything except strictly necessary storage starts denied. You can reopen it and change your answer at any time from the Cookie preferences link in the footer.

The Wardogs Hub mobile app

The Wardogs Hub app for iPhone, iPad and Android shows the same information as this site. It has no accounts and no analytics SDK. What it does handle:

  • Ads. The app shows ads from Google AdMob. AdMob receives your device's advertising identifier (on iPhone only if you allow tracking when asked), your IP address, from which it estimates a rough location, information about the ads you see and tap, and basic diagnostics. In the UK, the EEA and Switzerland the app asks for consent first; you can change your choice in the app under About, then Privacy settings. You can also reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings. See how Google uses data from apps that use its services.
  • Push notifications. Only if you turn them on. We store the push token your phone gives us, whether it is iPhone or Android, your language and which alerts you chose. The token is not linked to your name or any account. Turn all alerts off in the app and we delete it; tokens from phones that have uninstalled the app are deleted automatically.
  • Comments. A comment posted on the Status screen is handled exactly like one posted on /status: we keep what you wrote and a scrambled daily code, never your IP address, and the comment is shown publicly on this site.
  • Feedback. The Feedback button opens your own email app addressed to us, with the app version and phone model filled in. Nothing is sent unless you send the email.

We do not sell your data, and the app does not collect your contacts, photos, precise location or anything else on your phone.

Hosting and infrastructure

The site runs on our own server, rented from OVHcloud in Canada, with Cloudflare in front of it to deliver pages quickly and block attacks. The database and uploaded images live on that same server, and backups are stored with Cloudflare. Our server and Cloudflare keep standard logs, which can include IP addresses, for security and to keep the site running. We do not use those logs to build any profile of you.

Your rights

If you are in the UK or EEA, the UK GDPR and GDPR give you the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the processing of your personal data, and to withdraw consent at any time. If you are in California, the CCPA gives you the right to know what is collected, to have it deleted, and not to be discriminated against for asking.

For your account and anything you submitted while signed in, email hello@wardogshub.gg and we will deal with it. For analytics and advertising data, Google and Raptive are the ones processing it, so their tools (linked above) are the quickest route.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

When this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Material changes will be noted on this page rather than made quietly.

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