The World of Ducks

Cookie Policy

Last updated: September 2026.

What cookies are

Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser so it can remember something between pages or visits. Similar technologies, such as advertising identifiers, do the same job in other ways; this policy covers them too.

How Quackoria uses them

  • Essential: WordPress sets cookies when someone signs in to manage the site, and to remember your details if you leave a comment. Reading the site, playing the games and using the tools need no cookie at all.
  • Analytics: Google Analytics 4 sets first-party cookies (named _ga and _ga_ followed by an ID) to tell one visit from another and count returning visitors, in aggregate. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland they are not set unless consent has been given.
  • Advertising: none yet. Quackoria is preparing to use Google AdSense; when it does, Google and its partners will use cookies and similar identifiers to show and measure ads, and — where the law requires consent — only after you agree to personalised advertising.

Local storage in games and tools

Local storage is not a cookie. Our games keep your best score, some tools keep their last settings, and the Duck Flock Journal keeps the flock name, dated counts, observations and notes you enter in your browser’s localStorage. It is never sent to us or to anyone else and is not used for analytics or advertising. CSV and JSON exports are created on your device; clearing your browser’s site data removes the stored copy.

Your consent choices

For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, analytics storage stays off unless consent has been given. Before any advertising starts, a Google-certified consent message will be added so that visitors there can choose, and change or withdraw that choice at any time.

Controlling cookies

Every browser lets you block or delete cookies; blocking some may affect parts of the site. You can opt out of personalised Google ads at Google Ad Settings, and stop Google Analytics measuring your visits with Google’s opt-out browser add-on.

The Privacy Policy explains what the site collects and why.