Privacy notice

This site (wingman953.com) is a personal Halo speedrunning fan site run by Wingman953. It is non-commercial and deliberately tries to collect as little as possible. This notice exists to be honest about the small amount of processing that does happen when you load a page, and to satisfy our transparency obligations under Article 13 of the UK/EU GDPR.

What this site does not do

  • No analytics. No Google Analytics, Plausible, Matomo, or anything similar.
  • No first-party cookies, no localStorage, no sessionStorage.
  • No login, no accounts, no forms.
  • No advertising, no remarketing pixels, no tracking scripts.
  • No fingerprinting.

What is processed when you visit

Hosting (GitHub Pages)

The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. As with any website, the host receives the IP address, User-Agent, and request path of every visit as a normal part of serving HTTP. GitHub may keep these in their server logs for security and abuse-prevention purposes. We do not have direct access to those logs. See GitHub’s privacy statement for details. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in serving the site reliably (Article 6(1)(f)).

Web fonts (Google Fonts)

Some pages load typefaces from fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com when they render. Your browser automatically requests these on page load. Google may receive your IP address and User-Agent as part of that request. See Google’s privacy policy.

YouTube embeds — only after you click

The speedrun playlists are hosted on YouTube. To protect your privacy, the embedded player on each page is not loaded automatically. You will see a thumbnail placeholder with a “Load YouTube player” button. Until you click it, no request is made to YouTube or any other Google service for that embed.

When you click to load a player, your browser starts requesting content from www.youtube.com. At that point YouTube will typically set cookies and process your IP address and User-Agent according to Google’s privacy policy. The legal basis for this loading is your consent (Article 6(1)(a)), given by clicking the load button. The playlist titles and cover thumbnail you see before clicking are baked into the page at build time and served from this site, not from Google.

Outbound links

The site links out to third-party sites such as twitch.tv, youtube.com, patreon.com, ko-fi.com, discord.gg, and haloruns.com. These links are plain hyperlinks with no tracking. Once the third-party site is loaded, your visit is subject to its own privacy policy.

Leaderboard data (HaloRuns)

Leaderboard tables are populated from the public HaloRuns API. This data is fetched on the server and then baked into the static HTML you receive. Your browser never contacts HaloRuns directly as part of viewing this site.

Cookies

This site sets no cookies of its own. The only cookies that can land on your device through your visit are those YouTube sets after you click to load a player, which is your active choice. If you never click a player, no cookies are set.

Your rights

Under UK/EU GDPR you have the right to access, correct, or erase personal data we hold about you, restrict or object to processing, and to data portability. In practice, since this site collects no personal data of its own, there is nothing for us to access, correct, or erase. For data held by GitHub, Google/YouTube, or HaloRuns, please contact those organisations directly using the links above.