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The features this site actually uses

Privacy & browser storage

This guide has no account system or on-site contact form. Search and filtering run in your browser. The public site uses Google Analytics 4 and Ahrefs Web Analytics to understand how visitors use the guide.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-L465EQ2945) to measure visits and page usage. Google receives information such as page URLs and titles, referring pages, browser and device details, and usage events. Analytics may use first-party cookies to distinguish visits and sessions. Search terms in a page URL may also be included in analytics data.

Our tag disables Google signals and advertising personalization signals. We do not configure a user ID or send your saved companions ranking to Google. Local development and review previews do not load our analytics tag.

Read how Google uses information from sites that use its services and Google’s Privacy Policy. You can manage cookies through your browser or use Google’s Analytics opt-out browser add-on where supported.

Ahrefs Web Analytics

We also load Ahrefs Web Analytics from analytics.ahrefs.com to measure website traffic. Ahrefs receives visit information, including the page visited, referring site and browser or device information. We do not send your saved companions ranking or email messages to this service. Local development and review previews do not load this tag.

Read the Ahrefs Web Analytics explanation for details about its data collection and reporting.

Your ranking

The optional “Your ranking” feature saves the order of companions IDs in localStorage under pokebonk-your-ranking-v1. It does not send that order to a server. Use “Reset your ranking” to remove the saved order, or clear this site’s browser storage.

If storage is blocked or a saved list is invalid, the feature falls back to a temporary order and tells you what happened.

Search and page requests

Search terms appear in the search page URL so that results can be shared and restored after a refresh. A URL and its query may be retained in browser history, standard hosting access logs and analytics. Question and item fragments after # are handled within the page.

The site contains no code to read personal files or send research data. Standard delivery of pages may involve hosting logs; this guide does not promise a particular hosting log retention period.

Hosting and performance metrics

Pages are delivered through Cloudflare and GoDaddy. On the GoDaddy-hosted site, the hosting platform adds a Real User Metrics script from img1.wsimg.com to measure performance, such as connection and page-load times. This is separate from Google Analytics and our search and ranking features. Read the GoDaddy explanation of Real User Metrics for details.

Email contact

The Contact Us page uses email links that open your email app. If you send a message, your email address and message contents are shared with the recipient and handled by the email providers involved. The site does not submit a message or attachment on your behalf.

External links

Game, source and reference links take you to other websites, which apply their own privacy practices. This page describes the guide’s implemented features, not those external services.

Companion votes

The Strong button records an anonymous browser preference, separate from editorial rankings. A first-party, HttpOnly cookie lasts up to one year and lets you remove your vote. Clearing cookies or using another browser can create another identity; totals are votes, not verified individual players. The database stores a keyed hash of this identifier rather than the cookie itself. Short-lived keyed network hashes limit abuse; raw IP addresses are not stored in vote records. Hosting access logs are managed separately. Content and translations are prepared locally; this site does not generate text from your vote.