This policy explains what happens to your data when you visit Anime Updates.
What we collect
We don’t ask you to create an account, and we don’t collect your name or email unless you email us. To understand which pages are useful, we use Google Analytics, described below.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics counts visits and shows us things like which pages people read, roughly where visitors are in the world, and what kind of device they use. It doesn’t tell us who you are.
- Everyone sees the banner once and can choose Accept or Decline. The choice is remembered on your device.
- If you’re in the EU, UK or Switzerland, analytics cookies stay off until you choose Accept. If you choose Decline, or make no choice, Google only receives basic signals without cookies, which Google uses to estimate total visits.
- Everywhere else, analytics cookies are on until you choose Decline.
- Anyone can change their choice at any time with Cookie settings at the bottom of every page.
- There are no ads on the site, and advertising cookies and ad personalisation are switched off. We don’t sell your data.
When analytics cookies are allowed, Google sets cookies named _ga and _ga_PKE016L9F7, which last up to two years. Google processes this data under Google’s privacy policy, and you can also use Google’s opt-out tool. We keep Google Analytics event data for 14 months, the longest period Google offers, and then it is deleted automatically.
Stored on your device
The site saves two settings in your browser’s local storage: your analytics choice, and whether you turned the seasonal effects (falling leaves, petals or snow) on or off. They stay on your device and are never sent to us.
Services that receive basic technical data
Loading any website sends your IP address and browser details to the servers involved. For this site, those are:
- Cloudflare, which hosts the site and protects it from abuse. It may set a strictly necessary security cookie and keep short-term logs. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
- Google, for Google Analytics (above) and Google Fonts, which serves the site’s typefaces. See Google’s privacy policy.
- AniList’s image servers, for search thumbnails and the few images we can’t host ourselves. See AniList’s terms.
Links to streaming services and other sites take you off Anime Updates. Their own privacy policies apply there.
Emails
If you email us, we use your message and address only to reply, and we delete them when they’re no longer needed.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, including the EU, UK, Switzerland, Canada, Australia and US states such as California, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal data held about you, and to opt out of analytics. Use Cookie settings to opt out, or contact us through the contact page for anything else.
Children
The site is not directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their data.
Changes
When this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes too.