Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

The Freak Circus Guide is an independent fan-made guide website for players of The Freak Circus. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the official The Freak Circus development team.

The playable game experience linked or embedded on this site is provided through official itch.io sources. We do not host, reupload, redistribute, or modify the game files.

2. Information we collect

We do not ask visitors to create an account, submit payment information, or provide sensitive personal data to read our guides.

If you contact us by email, we may receive your email address and the message content you choose to send. We use that information only to respond to your request, handle corrections, or process site-related feedback.

3. Analytics and cookies

We use analytics tools to understand page views, navigation patterns, and general site performance. These tools may use cookies or similar technologies depending on the provider and visitor browser settings.

We do not use analytics to collect raw walkthrough answers, private messages, payment data, or sensitive personal information.

4. Advertising

We may use Google AdSense to display advertisements once advertising is enabled on the site. Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to serve, measure, and improve ads.

You can learn how Google uses data from partner sites at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and manage ad settings through your Google account or browser privacy controls.

5. Third-party links and embedded content

This site links to official itch.io pages, community resources, search engines, analytics providers, and other third-party websites. Their privacy practices are controlled by their own policies, not by this site.

When you open an external link or interact with embedded third-party content, the third party may receive technical information such as your IP address, browser details, and referring page.

6. Fan content and intellectual property boundary

The Freak Circus names, characters, art, story, and game materials belong to their respective rights holders. This site provides independent commentary, walkthrough notes, summaries, and player-help content for informational purposes.

If you are a rights holder and believe something should be corrected or removed, contact us and we will review the request in good faith.

7. Data retention

Email messages and site-operation records may be retained only as long as reasonably needed for support, security, legal compliance, and site maintenance.

Aggregated analytics reports may be kept for trend analysis, but we do not use them to identify individual players.

8. Your choices

You can disable cookies in your browser, use privacy extensions, or avoid third-party embedded content if you do not want those technologies to run.

You may contact us to request correction or deletion of personal information you previously sent to us by email, subject to reasonable verification and legal requirements.

9. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when site features, analytics, advertising, or legal requirements change. The latest version will be posted on this page with an updated date.