Last updated: July 14, 2026
Welcome to SAO Aincrad Guides ("we," "our," or "us"). This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share information when you visit our website at aincradguides.com (the "Site"). By using our Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
We may collect the following types of information when you use our website:
• Information you provide voluntarily: When you contact us through our contact form, we collect your name, email address, and the content of your message to respond to your inquiries.
• Automatically collected information: Like most websites, we may collect certain information automatically through server logs, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, and timestamps. This information is used for analytics and to improve website performance.
• Cookies and similar technologies: Our website may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience, remember your preferences, and understand how you interact with our site.
We use the information we collect to respond to your inquiries and provide customer support, operate and maintain our website, analyze website usage and trends to understand how visitors interact with our content, detect and prevent technical issues, security threats, or fraudulent activity, and comply with applicable legal obligations.
We may use third-party services to help operate our website. These services may collect information as described in their respective privacy policies:
• Web Hosting: Our website is hosted on third-party hosting providers who may process server log data.
• Advertising: We display third-party advertisements through advertising networks such as Google AdSense. These third-party ad networks may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve ads based on your visits to this website and other sites.
• Analytics: We may use analytics tools to understand how visitors use our website and improve our content.
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. Google AdSense uses cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet. You can learn more about Google's advertising practices by visiting the Google Advertising Privacy & Terms page.
You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. We use cookies for the following purposes:
• Essential cookies: Required for basic website functionality and security
• Preference cookies: Remember your settings and preferences
• Analytics cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our website
• Advertising cookies: Used by advertising partners to deliver relevant advertisements
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through your browser settings. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or alert you when cookies are being sent. Note that disabling cookies may affect some functionality of our website.
We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include HTTPS encryption, secure server configurations, and regular security updates. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Depending on your jurisdiction (such as the EU GDPR, California CCPA/CPRA, etc.), you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
• The right to access your personal data
• The right to rectify inaccurate personal data
• The right to erasure ("right to be forgotten")
• The right to restrict processing
• The right to data portability
• The right to object to processing
Our website is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.