Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 8, 2026

Build a Hooper respects your privacy. This policy explains how we collect and use information when you visit our site.

Information We Collect

We use Google Analytics and Google AdSense to understand how visitors use the site and to support the site through advertising. These services may collect your IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, time spent on pages, and similar data.

We do not collect personal information such as your name, email address, or phone number unless you contact us directly. Game state and build data are stored locally in your browser or on our servers only when you choose to share a build.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to operate the site, measure traffic, and serve ads. The categories are:

• Essential cookies: required for the site to work, including remembering your game state and cookie preferences.
• Analytics cookies: help us understand how visitors interact with the site. We use Google Analytics and Plausible for this purpose.
• Advertising cookies: used by Google AdSense to deliver relevant ads, measure ad performance, and limit how often you see the same ad. These may include cookies such as __gads and __gpi.
• Preference cookies: may remember your consent choices and site preferences.

Advertising and Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on Build a Hooper. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our site and other sites on the Internet.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its advertising partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

Google's advertising requirements are summarized in the Google AdSense Program Policies. Google's privacy policy is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can also learn how Google uses information from sites and apps that use Google services at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics and Plausible Analytics to understand how visitors use the site. Google Analytics may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, pages visited, and time spent on the site. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Plausible is a privacy-friendly analytics tool that does not use cookies and does not collect personal data. You can learn more at https://plausible.io/data-policy.

Third-Party Services

We may use third-party advertising networks and analytics providers. These services have their own privacy policies and may process your data under their own terms. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of Google, Plausible, and any other third-party services linked from this site.

Your Choices

When available, you can use the consent management message or privacy choices controls on this site to manage your consent for analytics and advertising cookies. You can also manage or disable cookies through your browser settings at any time. Please note that disabling some cookies may affect site functionality.

EU and UK Users

For visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom, we comply with Google's EU User Consent Policy. We request your consent before placing non-essential cookies, including advertising and analytics cookies, and provide a way to manage or withdraw consent through the consent management message, privacy choices controls when available, or by contacting us.

California Privacy Rights

We do not sell personal information. If you are a California resident and have questions about your privacy rights, please contact us.

Children's Privacy

Build a Hooper is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have collected such information, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

Data Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the information we collect. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Effective date” at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

Contact

For privacy questions or to exercise your rights, contact us at support@buildahooper.app.