🔒 Privacy

The Beholder's Gazette is a static website. There are no accounts, no logins, and no ads. We count visits with Google Analytics (see below). This page explains the little data that is involved. Last updated October 10, 2026.

🦅 Subscribe and Contact forms

If you subscribe by raven or send us a message, what you type (your email address, plus your name and message if you give them) is saved through Google Forms, where only the editor can see it. We use these details only to send you the Gazette or to reply to you. We never sell or share them.

To unsubscribe, or to have your details deleted, send a message through the contact form.

🎒 Saved in your own browser

Some tools remember things using your browser's local storage. This data stays on your device. It is never sent to us, and clearing your browser's site data removes it.

• Vault of Wonders (loot generator): the treasure you save.
• Town Square (NPC generator): your saved NPCs.
• The Tavern (rumors): rumors you drew recently, and which rumors are still left in each category's deck, so you don't get repeats until the deck runs out. The DM Session Kit deals from the same decks.
• Spellbook: your named spell lists and the spells you starred in each. A shared list link carries only the list name and spell names.
• Merchant's Row (shop generator): the shop currently on the page, including any haggle roll.
• DM Toolbox: the tavern and shop names you keep, the initiative tracker's current fight, and your last 50 dice rolls (shared with the floating 🎲 button on the tool pages, along with whether you hid that button).
• DM Session Kit: the town crier's headline, rumor, NPC, loot, and shop currently on the page, so a refresh doesn't lose them.
• Offline copies: the site saves the tools, their data, its fonts, and the pages you read in your browser's cache, so the tools work with no connection. This is ordinary site data: nothing about you is in it, and clearing site data removes it.

🌐 Other services

Like most websites, pages load fonts from Google Fonts and some background images from Unsplash. Those services see your IP address when your browser fetches the files. The site itself is hosted on GitHub Pages, which keeps standard server logs. Links to Patreon take you to Patreon's site, which has its own privacy policy.

📊 Analytics

The Gazette uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which articles and tools get used. It is the same Google Analytics account as our main site, ashforgestudio.com.

Google Analytics sets cookies (named _ga and _ga_…) to tell visits apart. Your browser sends Google the address of each page you view (including any share-link details in it, like a dice seed or a spell list), the page that sent you here, and your browser, device, rough location, and IP address. Google says Google Analytics 4 does not store IP addresses. We see only totals, never who you are, and we don't send Google anything you type into the forms or tools, or anything your browser saves for the tools.

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📰 Satire notice

The Gazette is satire. Articles are parody inspired by real events and are not real news. All names in articles are fictional stand-ins.