Privacy policy

Who runs this site

wthelper.com (“WTHelper”, “we”) is an independent fan project for War Thunder players. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Gaijin Entertainment. The project has no mailbox yet: everything this site stores about you can be switched off or deleted with the controls on this page and in your browser, as described below. A contact address will be published here when the full WTHelper launches.

What we collect

Analytics (Google Analytics 4)

When analytics is on, Google Analytics records which pages you open, which parts of the site you click (including which easter eggs you find), how you arrived here (for example a search engine or a link), your approximate location at city or country level, and basic device details: browser, operating system, screen size and language. Google Analytics 4 uses your IP address to estimate location and does not store it. We don’t use Google’s advertising features, and we don’t send your name, email address or anything else that identifies you directly.

Your browser’s local storage

The site stores a few small values on your device so it can remember things between visits: your analytics choice, the secrets you have found and your research tree progress. They never leave your browser. Clear your site data to remove them.

Delivery and security (Cloudflare and our server)

Every request passes through Cloudflare and then reaches our own web server. Both need your IP address and request details (time, requested page, browser) to deliver the site and protect it from abuse. Our server keeps these access logs for up to 14 days, for security and troubleshooting only. If bot protection is active, Cloudflare may set a strictly necessary security cookie.

Cookies and storage

Why, and on what legal basis

We use analytics to understand how many people visit and what they find interesting, so we can build a better WTHelper. If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, analytics cookies stay off until you choose “Allow”; the legal basis is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time. Everywhere else, analytics starts on and you can switch it off at any time. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as “Decline”. Server logs and Cloudflare’s processing are based on our legitimate interest in keeping the site available and secure.

How long we keep it

Google Analytics keeps event-level data for 2 months; after that only aggregated reports remain. Local storage stays on your device until you clear it. Our server deletes access logs after 14 days. Cloudflare keeps its logs according to its own retention rules.

Who else processes it

Google (Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC) processes analytics data on our behalf, and Cloudflare, Inc. processes delivery and security data. Both may process data outside your country, including in the United States, and rely on recognised transfer mechanisms such as the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework and Standard Contractual Clauses. Read how Google uses data from sites that use its services and Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can ask to access, correct or delete personal data about you, object to or restrict its processing, and withdraw consent. You can do most of this yourself right now: decline analytics above (this also deletes the analytics cookies) and clear this site’s data in your browser. Analytics data is pseudonymous, so it can’t be linked to you once the identifier in your browser is gone. You can also opt out of Google Analytics on every site with Google’s browser add-on, and you have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

This site is not aimed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

When the site grows into the real WTHelper, this policy will change with it. The date at the top always shows the latest version.