Privacy Policy

What loads, and when

powerlifters.xyz is a static guide. Reading a page does not require an account. Three providers load on the first page view by default: Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-MFHWQWV2GT), Microsoft Clarity (project zarlxae7bq, heatmaps and session recordings) and Adsterra (publisher 3403020, website 6186474, two ad units listed below). Their requests can disclose your IP address, browser information, page URL and usage information to those providers.

The cookie banner is information and a withdrawal control, not a gate. A visitor with no stored choice is treated as granted: the three providers load immediately and the banner appears so the choice can be changed. Pressing Reject, or using Cookie settings in the footer, writes a denied record for 180 days and stops the loaders on this and later page views. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track are treated as a refusal.

Our loader requests these providers immediately unless a refusal is stored or a supported privacy signal is present. Fonts and video preview images are hosted on this site. The YouTube player described below loads only after a separate play click.

Google Analytics 4

Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Limited, google-analytics.com and googletagmanager.com), measurement ID G-MFHWQWV2GT. Purpose: count page views and see which guides are read, so thin or broken pages can be fixed. It loads on the first page view unless you press Reject.

Storage: Google Analytics can write the first-party cookies _ga and _ga_ when analytics storage is granted. Google controls their duration and the analytics property's retention settings; this review has not established a site-specific retention period, so no duration is asserted here. Advertising storage, ad user data and ad personalization start denied in Google Consent Mode v2; analytics storage starts granted, and ads_data_redaction is enabled.

Opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, by pressing Reject here, or by blocking the tag in your browser. Google's ad controls are at https://myadcenter.google.com/.

Microsoft Clarity

Microsoft Clarity (Microsoft Corporation, clarity.ms), project zarlxae7bq. Purpose: heatmaps and anonymized session recordings, so a confusing page can be seen rather than guessed at. It loads on the first page view unless you press Reject. Clarity masks sensitive content by default.

Storage: Microsoft's cookie documentation lists identifiers including _clck, _clsk and MUID. Which cookies are available depends on browser restrictions and Microsoft settings. Pressing Reject sends a refusal to Clarity and reloads this page with the loader disabled; later page views also keep it disabled while the refusal is valid. Microsoft controls its own retention periods. Microsoft's privacy statement is at https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement.

Advertising: Adsterra

Adsterra (Adsterra Ltd, adsterra.com), publisher ID 3403020, website ID 6186474. Purpose: display advertising that pays for the guide. Two units belong to this website: NativeBanner_1, dashboard unit 32168960, an in-page native unit, and SocialBar_1, dashboard unit 32168961, a floating bar anchored to the bottom of the window. Both are served from bicea.org, the delivery host Adsterra issued for this account; scripts and creatives are requested from that host and from the creative hosts it redirects to. "Show adult ads" is OFF for this website, so no adult creatives are requested for it.

Storage: Adsterra and its creative delivery partners may use cookies or other identifiers when an ad is requested. We have no verified complete list of their cookie names or lifetimes, so none is estimated here. Our own pl_ads_closed key only remembers your Hide ads preference; the separate consent key remembers Reject. The default-on setting describes this site's loading behavior and does not claim that continuing to browse is an affirmative consent action.

Personalized advertising: Adsterra and its partners may use the page topic and coarse device or region data to pick a creative. To opt out of interest-based advertising across sites, use https://optout.aboutads.info/ or https://optout.networkadvertising.org/, and in the EU, UK or Switzerland https://www.youronlinechoices.com/. Adsterra's own policy is at https://adsterra.com/privacy-policy-managed/. Withdrawing consent here stops new ad requests from this site immediately.

The floating Social Bar is bound by our own layout, not the vendor's close control: whatever Adsterra anchors to the window is clamped to the viewport width (max-width 100vw, border-box, overflow hidden), the document reserves room at the bottom so the bar cannot cover the footer, and the Hide ads switch in the footer stores pl_ads_closed so the bar stays away on later visits instead of only until the next refresh.

Storage keys this site writes

pl_consent_v1, in localStorage (not a cookie). Value: a choice of granted or denied plus an expiry. Retention: 180 days, then the banner returns. Purpose: remember your Cookie settings decision. Legal basis: your selection, or a Global Privacy Control signal, which we store as denied without asking again.

pl_ads_closed, in localStorage (not a cookie). Value: the time you pressed Hide ads. Retention: 180 days, or until you press Accept or clear the key. Purpose: keep advertising closed on later visits. Cookie settings in the footer records a refusal and reopens the banner so you can choose Accept or Reject again.

Global Privacy Control (navigator.globalPrivacyControl) and Do Not Track are treated as refusals: with either one set, the three providers are not loaded, and the banner is not shown again. YouTube still waits for a click.

YouTube and other embeds

YouTube (Google). Purpose: play a developer or guide video. A locally hosted preview stays as a picture until you press play; that click loads the player from www.youtube-nocookie.com. The player may then request media and supporting resources from YouTube's delivery domains, including ytimg.com and googlevideo.com. Google controls storage and retention for the player. Your play click requests that embed independently of the site's analytics and advertising choice. Google's controls are at https://myadcenter.google.com/.

No other embed or third-party SDK is loaded by this site. There is no traffic-mesh or other banner SDK, no social widget, and no comment system.

Rights, complaints, and changes

You can ask for access, correction, or deletion of a message you sent us, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interest. Email [email protected]. We reply to that mailbox. For advertising and analytics data, the controllers are the providers named above; the opt-out pages in this policy reach them, and we will forward a request if you send it here. You may lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

The operator is the powerlifters.xyz desk, [email protected]. Game support is a different company: Gym Freaks and Roblox do not run this site. Changes to this policy are posted on this page with a new check date. The current date is 9 November 2026, the day the three integrations were added and re-read against the build.

FAQ

Sources

• Adsterra privacy policy checked 2026-11-09
• Microsoft Clarity privacy statement checked 2026-11-09
• Google My Ad Center checked 2026-11-09
• Microsoft Clarity cookie documentation checked 2026-11-09
• Google Analytics data retention documentation checked 2026-11-09
• DAA opt-out checked 2026-11-09

How these sources are checked

Limitation: providers control their own delivery chains, storage and retention, which can change independently of this site's code.