The short version.

Pokénnoisseur doesn't sell ads, doesn't run third-party tracking pixels, and doesn't have user accounts. Almost nothing is collected. What little is collected is described below.

Who runs this site

Pokénnoisseur is operated by a single person based in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Contact details are on the Contact page.

What is collected on this website

Standard server logs from Cloudflare, our hosting provider. These contain the IP address, browser user agent, and the URL of the page you requested. Cloudflare retains these for a short period to filter abuse and prevent attacks. They are not used to build a profile of you, and they are not shared with us in identifiable form.

That's it for the website itself. No Facebook pixel, no Google Tag Manager, no advertising cookies, and no fingerprinting.

Audience measurement

We use GoatCounter, a privacy-friendly analytics tool, to count page views and see which pages are popular. It is cookieless: it sets no cookie and does not build a profile of you or track you across other sites. It records the page URL, the referring page, and a coarse browser and country signal. We use this only to understand what content is useful.

Advertising measurement

We run ads on Meta (Facebook and Instagram) to reach Canadian collectors. To know whether those ads work, we measure conversions server-side using Meta's Conversions API. There is no Facebook pixel on the page and no advertising cookie is set in your browser.

When you arrive from one of our ads, or click a "Join the Discord" button, or submit the PSA calculator, our server sends Meta a single event so the click can be matched to its ad. The identifiers shared are limited to your IP address, your browser user agent, the Meta click identifier from the ad link, and (only if you submitted the calculator with your email) a one-way hashed (SHA-256) version of that email. Your email is never sent to Meta in readable form. We do not share your name, your card data, or your calculator results with Meta. You can limit this through your Meta ad preferences.

If you join the Discord

Discord membership is governed by Discord's own privacy policy. We don't extract or store member data from Discord beyond what Discord itself stores. Your Discord handle is visible to other members of the server.

Cookies and local storage

The website sets no cookies of its own. Cloudflare may set a session cookie called __cf_bm to distinguish humans from bots; this is functional and expires within 30 minutes. Discord sets its own cookies on its own domain when you visit it.

If you are in Québec and make a consent choice (see below), we save that choice in your browser's local storage under the key pk_consent so we don't ask again on every visit. It holds only your two yes/no choices, a timestamp, and a region tag. It is not a tracking identifier and is never sent to anyone.

Your consent choices (Québec)

If you visit from Québec, a banner asks for your consent before any non-essential measurement runs. Until you choose, audience measurement and advertising measurement stay off. The banner has two separate purposes you can accept or refuse independently:

• Audience measurement: the cookieless GoatCounter page-view counting described above.
• Advertising measurement: the server-side Meta conversion measurement described above.

You can change your mind at any time. Select Privacy choices in the footer of any page to reopen the banner and update or withdraw your consent. Withdrawing takes effect immediately for future page loads.

Affiliate links

Some outbound links to Amazon and other retailers are affiliate links. Clicking one sends you to the retailer's site and may attribute the visit to Pokénnoisseur for commission purposes. The retailer collects whatever they would normally collect from any visitor. We don't receive personally identifying information about you from these links, only aggregate reports of clicks and purchases.

Your rights (Québec Law 25 / Canadian PIPEDA)

You can ask what information is held about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted. Email hello@pokennoisseur.ca with the request and you'll get a reply within 30 days. There's no form to fill out.

Changes to this policy

If we change anything material, the date at the top of this page changes. There's no mailing list for policy updates because there's no mailing list.