Privacy & Cookies
Last updated: October 28, 2026.
This page explains the information used to run this site, our cookies, and your choices. For privacy questions or requests, use our contact form.
Your cookie choices
Necessary cookies support features you use, including form security, voting, forum sessions and remembering your cookie preference. Declining optional cookies does not disable these functions.
Our optional-cookie choice controls embedded YouTube and Vimeo players. Until you allow them, these players do not load. Video titles, descriptions and direct links remain available. We do not use your poll or quote-like identifier to build advertising profiles or track you across other websites.
You can withdraw permission using Cookie settings in the footer. This removes our loaded optional players and stops us loading them on subsequent visits while that choice is saved. It does not undo information already sent to a provider or delete cookies set on that provider’s domain. Use your browser’s cookie controls to remove those cookies. Other open tabs update when you return to them or refresh them.
Information used by site features
- Polls: we store your selected answer, the poll round, the vote time, and a poll-specific hashed browser identifier to limit repeat voting. The identifier is not a name or email address. Clearing cookies or changing browsers can prevent us remembering previous votes. Poll records, previous rounds and moderation adjustments remain in the database until removed by the operator; there is no scheduled automatic deletion of voting history.
- Quote likes: we store the quote, like time and a hashed random browser identifier to limit repeat likes. We do not store your name, email address or IP address in the likes table. Clearing cookies, cookie expiry or using another browser can allow another like. Records remain until the quote or its likes are removed; there is no automatic deletion schedule.
- Contact: your name, email address, subject and message are sent to our mailbox so we can respond and handle your submission. Messages may remain in the mailbox and hosting backups after a conversation ends; there is currently no fixed automatic deletion schedule. Please do not submit sensitive information that is not needed for your message.
- Forum: phpBB processes registration and account details, posts and messages, login/session information, and technical information such as IP addresses for forum operation and moderation. Public posts and profile fields are visible to others according to forum settings. Account and content records are retained while maintained on the forum, unless removed; backups may retain older copies. See also the forum privacy notice.
- Games: locally hosted games may use browser storage for game files, settings or progress. Clearing browser data may remove that information.
- Visitor notifications: when a public page loads with JavaScript and cookies enabled, we record the IP address seen by the server, browser-reported user agent, landing page and saved optional-cookie choice for an email to the site operator. The email waits for a choice or a 30-second deadline. A random browser cookie limits repeat notifications to about once per 24 hours. Pending details stay in private server storage until handed to the email system or expired after 24 hours. Emails may remain in the operator mailbox and provider backups. Declining optional cookies does not disable this notification.
- Hosting: GoDaddy hosts the site and processes requests and server logs. These may include IP addresses, requested pages, times, referring addresses and browser information. cPanel statistics can summarize these logs. Hosting log and backup retention is controlled by hosting settings and provider practices rather than the video-cookie choice.
Cookies used by this site
| Cookie | Purpose | Typical lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| ubb_visit_browser | Random browser identifier used to limit repeat visitor emails. | Up to one year. |
| ubb_privacy | Remembers whether you allow optional embedded videos, the notice version and when you chose. Contains no advertising identifier. | Up to 180 days after your choice. |
| ubb_polls_session | Poll form security and session state. | Browser session. |
| ubb_poll_voter | Signed random browser identifier used to remember voting eligibility. Scoped to /polls/. | Up to one year from creation. |
| ubb_quotes_session | Quote-like form security and a short submission cooldown. Scoped to /epic-quotes/. | Browser session. |
| ubb_quote_voter | Signed random browser identifier used to remember which quotes this browser liked. Scoped to /epic-quotes/. | Up to one year from creation. |
| PHPSESSID | Contact form security and submission controls. | Browser session. |
| phpbb3_…_u, phpbb3_…_k, phpbb3_…_sid and related forum cookies | Forum identity/session, requested persistent login and forum preferences. Prefixes and extra cookies depend on forum configuration. | The public forum currently issues its main cookies for up to one year; duration can change with forum settings or renewal. |
| ubb_admin_session | Session and form security for the private administrator console. | Browser session; administrator area only. |
Browser session restoration can keep session cookies beyond closing a window. You can delete or block cookies in your browser, but blocking necessary cookies may prevent voting, form submissions or login. Our optional-cookie setting leaves those cookies enabled.
Embedded videos and other websites
If you allow embedded videos, your browser connects to YouTube/Google or Vimeo. They receive information such as your IP address, browser details, the referring site and player interactions. Their use of cookies or similar storage may include service operation, measurement and advertising, and may relate to an account you have with them. We use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced player and Vimeo’s do-not-track parameter, but these settings do not mean that no information reaches the providers.
Read Google’s privacy policy, Google’s cookie information, Vimeo’s privacy policy and Vimeo’s cookie policy. Provider cookies and their lifetimes vary with their services and your account settings.
Opening a direct video link, a Rabbit Holes listing or another external link takes you to an independently operated website. Its policies and settings apply there; our cookie choice does not control that website. Forum posts may also contain externally hosted images or links, which can disclose connection information when requested.
Hosting measurements
GoDaddy may provide hosting-level performance measurements in addition to server logs. Any hosting-injected measurement code is controlled through GoDaddy’s hosting settings, not this site’s embedded-video choice. See GoDaddy’s privacy policy. We have not added a separate advertising or third-party analytics service to this website.
Who handles information
The operator and hosting, email and other service providers handle information as needed to run the site, answer messages and maintain security. Information may also be disclosed when legally required. Embedded-media providers handle information under their own policies when you enable their players or visit them directly. Service providers may process information in different countries.
Requests and updates
Use our contact form to ask about information associated with your account or messages, request a correction or deletion, or raise a privacy concern. We may need to verify that the request is yours. Anonymous browser-based poll and quote-like records may be difficult to identify once the browser identifier is lost. We will consider requests under applicable law; some records may need to remain for security, legal reasons or in backups.
We update this page when our practices change and revise the date above. Material changes will be highlighted on the site. If we introduce a new optional-cookie purpose, we will ask for a new choice before enabling it.