Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

AlbionUtil (albionutil.com) is a fan-made Albion Online crafting calculator. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Sandbox Interactive GmbH. The site is operated independently. For questions, contact us at contact@albionutil.com.

Or write to us from the contact form.

2. Data We Collect

We collect only what is necessary to provide the service:

• Discord account data: When you sign in with Discord, we receive your Discord username, avatar, and account ID from Discord's OAuth2 service. We do not receive your email address, password, or payment information.
• Saved prices: Item, material, artifact, and journal prices you enter into the calculator are stored in our database and linked to your account.
• Crafting masteries: Specialization, sibling, and Master Crafter levels you configure are stored and linked to your account.
• Planning sessions: Craft plans you create and save are stored and linked to your account.
• Session data: We use server-side sessions (cookies) to keep you logged in between visits.
• Contact messages: When you write to us from the contact form, we store your message, its type and the area you chose, your email if you add it, the page you came from, the language, your browser and system (user agent), your AlbionUtil user if you are signed in and, if you report a calculation, a copy of its settings (cities, return rate, focus, quantity and results). We do not store your IP address with the message.
• Server logs: Standard web server logs (IP address, browser, pages visited, timestamps) are retained for up to 30 days for security and debugging purposes.
• Analytics data (only with your consent): If you accept analytics cookies, Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity receive your IP address, device and browser details, how you interact with the pages and, in Clarity’s case, recordings of your sessions. See sections 4 and 6.
• Advertising data (when ads are shown): When ads are shown, Google and its partners may receive your IP address, device and browser details, the address of the page you are viewing and identifiers stored in advertising cookies. See sections 5 and 6.

3. How We Use Your Data

• To provide the calculator service and sync your data across devices.
• To automatically pre-fill prices and settings from your previous sessions.
• To maintain your session so you stay logged in.
• To diagnose errors and improve the service.
• To measure how the site is used and find what is hard to use, with Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity. This relies on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
• To show ads with Google AdSense, which help pay for the site. In the EU, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, personalized ads rely on your consent; non-personalized or limited ads, which are not chosen from your browsing history, may rely, where the law allows it, on our legitimate interest in funding the site. See section 5.

We do not sell your data. We do not use your account data (Discord name, prices, masteries and plannings) for profiling or advertising, and we do not share it with advertisers.

4. Third-Party Services

• Discord OAuth2: Sign-in is handled by Discord. Their privacy policy governs data collected during authentication: discord.com/privacy.
• Fonts: We load fonts from Bunny Fonts (bunny.net), a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Fonts that does not log user IP addresses.
• Google Analytics 4: Only active if you accept analytics cookies. It measures, in aggregate, page views and how the calculator is used: when it is opened without an item, where the item is picked from, taps on inactive controls and loading errors. We do not send it your searches, prices, Discord name or planning IDs. Google’s privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy.
• Microsoft Clarity: Only active if you accept analytics cookies. It records sessions (clicks, scrolling and mouse movement) and builds heatmaps, so we can see which parts of the site are hard to use. Your Discord name and the names of your plannings are hidden in the recordings; the rest of the page is recorded as it appeared on your screen. The events we send it do not include your searches or prices. Clarity records page addresses, which may include a planning’s identifier; that identifier gives no access without your session. Microsoft’s privacy statement: privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement.

Google and Microsoft may process this data in the United States. Those transfers rely on the safeguards the providers offer, such as the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.

5. Advertising

We use Google AdSense, Google’s advertising service, to show ads on AlbionUtil.

• Third-party vendors: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google’s advertising cookies: Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. The cookies involved are listed in section 6.
• Consent in the EU, the United Kingdom and Switzerland: When ads are shown to visitors from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, we will ask for your consent through a consent management platform certified by Google. Without your consent, you will only see non-personalized or limited ads. Non-personalized ads are not chosen from your browsing history, although Google may still use cookies or similar technologies, if you allow it, to limit how often an ad is shown, produce aggregated reports and prevent fraud. Your advertising choices are managed in that consent message, separately from the analytics choices in "Cookie preferences".
• Opting out of personalized ads: You can turn off personalized advertising in Google’s Ads Settings, adssettings.google.com (now My Ad Center, myadcenter.google.com). You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info.
• How Google uses data: To learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services, see policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
• What we do not share: We do not send advertisers your Discord name, your prices or your plannings. As on any site that uses AdSense, Google receives the address of the page where an ad is shown.

Google may process advertising data in the United States, under the same safeguards described in section 4.

6. Cookies

We use the following cookies:

• Session cookie: Required for login and CSRF protection. Expires when your browser session ends or after a configurable timeout.
• Analytics cookies: Only set if you accept. Google Analytics: _ga and _ga_* (up to 2 years). Microsoft Clarity: _clck (1 year) and _clsk (1 day) on our domain, plus CLID and MUID (1 year) on Microsoft’s domains.
• Advertising cookies: Set by Google when ads are shown and, in the EU, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, only if you allow it in the consent message. Google AdSense: __gads and __gpi (about 13 months) and __eoi (about 6 months) on our domain. Google / DoubleClick: IDE on doubleclick.net (about 13 months in Europe, up to 2 years elsewhere) and NID on google.com (about 6 months). Google may use other cookies or similar technologies for the same purposes.

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time from "Cookie preferences", in the site footer or at the bottom of the calculator’s item list. If you withdraw it, we delete the analytics cookies on our domain and reload the page so the analytics scripts stop running.

"Cookie preferences" only controls analytics. Advertising choices are managed in the consent message shown with the ads and in Google’s Ads Settings (see section 5).

7. Data Retention

Your account data (prices, masteries, planning sessions) is retained for as long as your account is active. Server logs are deleted after 30 days. If you want your data deleted, contact us at contact@albionutil.com and we will remove it within 30 days.

You can also send the request from the contact form, choosing “My data”.

Contact messages are kept for 12 months after they are sent and then deleted automatically.

Analytics data is kept by the providers: Google Analytics keeps it for up to 14 months, and Microsoft Clarity keeps session recordings for about 30 days and heatmaps for about 13 months.

8. Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Request a copy of the data we hold about you.
• Request correction of inaccurate data.
• Request deletion of your account and associated data.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at contact@albionutil.com.

You can also send the request from the contact form, choosing “My data”.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy as the service evolves. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision. Continued use of AlbionUtil after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.