Privacy Policy

You’ve wandered into spudWorks Magazine. Welcome aboard, traveler. Full disclosure before we go further: we watch what you do here. Not in a creepy Scorpius-living-rent-free-in-your-brain way — more in a “Pilot quietly noting who’s moving through Moya” kinda thing. Here’s exactly what that means.

What we collect

Analytics (Google Analytics 4). Like the Borg, Google assimilates: it sets cookies and notes your approximate location, device, browser, which pages you visit, and how you arrived. We’ve also wired up a few custom events, because we’re nosy by nature:

• When you open an image in our lightbox — and whether it came from an article or the sidebar.
• How many images you flip through in a session (tallied the way Rygel counts his food cubes).
• When you swipe, navigate, or close the image viewer.
• When you run a search — yes, we see the search term.
• When you submit or reply to a comment, or click a “Keep Reading” link.

All of this is associated with the anonymous visitation profile Google builds for your session — stitched into one tidy record of your visit, the way Moya’s crew is technically one deeply dysfunctional family.

Comments. Leave one and we’ll need a name and email. We require them so people stand behind their words (no anonymous frelling about). Your email is never published; it just rides along with the comment. We also run an invisible spam trap that times your submission and hides decoy fields named after a couple of Peacekeeper-adjacent friends. Bots fall for it. Humans never notice.

Cookies

Google’s analytics cookies do the remembering — think of them as a less-judgmental Harvey: a little passenger that recognizes you between visits. Block them and the site still works perfectly; you’ll just be a stranger to us each time.

What we do with it

We read the aggregate numbers to learn what’s worth writing more of. We do not sell your data, and we’re not assembling a dossier with your name on it — we care which battle reports you liked, not who you are. All of this has happened before and will happen again, sure, but with your data we’d rather it didn’t.

Your rights

Depending where you live, you may have the right to:

• Know what we hold about you.
• Request deletion of it — your comments, your trail, gone like a Viper hitting the resurrection ship.
• Opt out of analytics entirely.

To opt out, you can install Google’s official opt-out browser add-on, refuse cookies via your browser, or just email us and say “make it so.” We’ll respond faster than D’Argo loses his temper — which is to say, promptly.

Data retention

Analytics data persists per Google’s retention settings. Comments stay until you ask us to remove them or we retire the post. We don’t keep things forever; we’re a magazine, not the Peacekeepers.

Third parties

Google Analytics is the big one — your data is also governed by Google’s Privacy Policy. Beyond that we keep the guest list short. No surprise passengers.

Changes

We may update this policy as the site evolves; when we do, the date below changes. Resistance to reading it is, naturally, futile.

Questions? Hail us at colin.ferm@gmail.com. We mostly monitor this channel. Mostly.

Last updated: June the 18th in the year of our lord, 2026