Privacy policy

Who we are

The operator of ditchhotel.com publishes this guide. Contact [email protected]. The game The Ditch Hotel is made by other people. Playing it on Roblox is covered by Roblox’s own policy, not this one.

What loads on a page, and when

Pages, CSS, fonts (Lilita One and Nunito, served as files from this domain), images, and /site.js come from ditchhotel.com. That delivery is the service you asked for; legal basis is our legitimate interest in publishing the guide, and it builds no advertising profile.

Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-6FPSNC1QL2, script from googletagmanager.com) starts on the first page view. It reports page views, referring page, device type, and city-level location to us in aggregate. It writes the cookies _ga (about 2 years) and _ga_6FPSNC1QL2 (about 2 years). Purpose: know which guides get read. Legal basis: consent, and our legitimate interest in aggregate measurement. Google is our processor.

Microsoft Clarity (project zarmy1lrjj, script from clarity.ms) starts on the first page view. It records session replays and heatmaps: clicks, scroll depth, and pointer movement, paired with the page URL, browser, and a pseudonymous visitor id. It writes the cookies _clck (about 1 year), _clsk (about 1 day), MUID (about 1 year), ANONCHK (about 1 day), CLID (about 1 year), and SM (session), plus Clarity_UX_* entries in localStorage and sessionStorage. Clarity runs with its default text masking; we do not send it names or emails. Purpose: find pages that confuse readers. Legal basis: consent. Microsoft is the processor.

Adsterra (publisher id 3403020, ad scripts from bicea.org) starts on the first page view. Two units run: a Native Banner (unit 32168983) inside the content area and a Social Bar (unit 32168984) fixed to the bottom of the viewport. Adsterra may set its own cookies and read an existing advertising identifier to cap repeat impressions and measure clicks; the names and lifetimes of those cookies are set by Adsterra, not by us, and we do not receive them. Purpose: fund the site. Legal basis: consent. The seller line in /ads.txt is adsterra.com, 3403020, DIRECT, which is the publisher id the dashboard shows.

YouTube embeds use youtube-nocookie.com and are created only when you press Play on a video card. That click is the consent for that request. YouTube, a Google service, may then set its own cookies, commonly YSC (session) and VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE (about six months), and may read a PREF cookie if one already exists. We do not control those cookies. Purpose: play the video you asked for. Legal basis: consent.

Outbound links to Roblox, Discord, and the code lists are ordinary links. They load nothing until you follow them.

Default loading, and how to withdraw

A visitor with no stored choice is treated as granted: the three vendors above start with the page, and the banner is a notice rather than a gate. Pressing Reject stores reject, removes the Clarity and Adsterra tags, withdraws the Google consent signals, and reloads the page into one that loads none of them. The choice is remembered for 180 days, after which the next visit is treated as a first visit again. Cookie settings in the footer reopens the banner at any time.

Google Consent Mode v2 defaults run in the page head before the Google tag is configured: analytics_storage starts granted, the three ad signals start denied, and ads_data_redaction and url_passthrough are on. They are updated to granted on the first page view and to denied when you press Reject.

Storage on your device

• dh_consent (localStorage, 180 days): a JSON record with choice (accept or reject), the expiry, and the time it was written. Purpose: remember the choice. Legal basis: consent, and our obligation to honour a refusal.
• dh_social_closed (localStorage, 180 days): the timestamp until which you hid the Adsterra Social Bar. Purpose: keep a bar you closed from coming back on the next page view. Legal basis: your instruction.
• Third-party cookies and storage: _ga, _ga_6FPSNC1QL2, _clck, _clsk, MUID, ANONCHK, CLID, SM, Clarity_UX_*, and Adsterra’s own cookies. Those are set by Google, Microsoft, and Adsterra under their policies and retention schedules, not by this site.
• Our own code uses localStorage; vendor tags may set first-party cookies on this domain. Reject stops subsequent vendor loading but does not automatically erase cookies already set. Your browser’s site-data controls can remove those.

Legal basis, rights, and advertising choices

Where consent is the basis (analytics, session recording, advertising, YouTube), you can withdraw it with Reject or Cookie settings. Serving the page itself is our legitimate interest in publishing the guide. You can email us to ask what we hold, to correct an email thread, or to object. You may lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority.

Adsterra serves the ads on this domain; no AdSense, reseller, or second ad network runs here. Personalized-ad controls, if you want them across the web: Google Ads Settings at https://adssettings.google.com/, the DAA opt-out at https://optout.aboutads.info/, Your Online Choices at https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, and the NAI opt-out at https://optout.networkadvertising.org/. For Microsoft’s advertising and analytics choices: https://choice.microsoft.com/. Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track is treated as Reject on this site.

We will change this page when the scripts change, and the date at the top will move with the sitemap. The last comparison of the wording with the code was 9 November 2026.