This Cookie Policy explains how Real Claw, developed by Shane Burton ("Real Claw," "we," "us," or "our") uses cookies, browser storage, and similar technologies when you access or use Real Claw websites, web applications, live claw machines, account features, and related online services (collectively, the "Service").
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
This policy does not treat continued browsing as consent to optional tracking. Where consent is legally required for a nonessential technology, Real Claw will request that consent before activating it.
1. What Are Cookies and Similar Technologies?
Cookies are small text files that websites may place on a browser or device. Cookies can help a website recognize a browser, keep a user signed in, remember settings, protect accounts, and understand how a service is used.
Real Claw may also use technologies that operate similarly to cookies, including:
- Local storage;
- Session storage;
- IndexedDB;
- Authentication tokens;
- Device or browser identifiers; and
- Similar browser-based storage or access technologies.
In this policy, we use the term "cookies and similar technologies" to refer to these technologies together.
2. How Real Claw Currently Uses These Technologies
Real Claw currently uses cookies and similar technologies primarily to provide features requested by users and to keep the Service secure and reliable. These uses may include:
- Remembering a guest browser so a player can enter and maintain a fair queue position;
- Preventing duplicate queue entries and repeated abuse;
- Maintaining gameplay and machine-control sessions;
- Keeping registered users signed in;
- Supporting Google, Apple, or email/password authentication through Firebase;
- Protecting accounts and detecting unauthorized or suspicious activity;
- Remembering functional preferences; and
- Maintaining the security, stability, and performance of the Service.
The exact names and technical formats used by Real Claw or its providers may change as the Service is updated.
Current Storage Categories
| Category | Example or provider | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guest browser identifier | realClawGuestId in local storage | Recognizes one browser for queue fairness, gameplay sessions, presence, and duplicate-entry prevention | Remains until the user clears website data or Real Claw changes or removes it |
| Authentication storage | Firebase Authentication / Google / Apple | Keeps an account signed in, validates identity, supports password reset and account security | May remain until sign-out, expiration, account deletion, or removal of website data |
| Temporary session state | Real Claw and supporting service providers | Operates active sessions, security checks, queue requests, and requested site features | Usually ends when the session expires or the browser data is cleared |
| Consent preferences | realClawPrivacyChoicesV1 in local storage | Remembers the basic-advertising acknowledgement and optional Analytics and personalized-ad choices | Until the choices are changed or website data is cleared |
| Optional analytics | Google Analytics 4 (_ga and _ga_*) | Measures visits, pages viewed, device information, and general usage trends after consent | Typically up to two years, subject to Google's settings and policies |
| Advertising | Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager, and related Google advertising technologies | Supports free gameplay through basic ads and optional rewarded sponsor messages and, when separately accepted, personalized ads | Varies by technology, consent choice, and Google's policies |
Some technologies may be persistent and remain after a browser is closed. Others may be temporary and expire when a session ends. Clearing browser or website data may remove them.
3. Strictly Necessary Technologies
Strictly necessary technologies are required to provide a feature requested by a user or to maintain the security and basic operation of the Service. Examples include technologies used for authentication, queue participation, gameplay sessions, security, load balancing, fraud prevention, and remembering privacy choices.
Where permitted by applicable law, these technologies may operate without opt-in consent because Real Claw cannot reliably provide the requested feature without them.
Blocking or deleting strictly necessary technologies may cause parts of Real Claw to stop working. For example, you may be signed out, lose a guest identifier, lose a queue position, or be unable to use account or gameplay features.
4. Analytics and Performance Technologies
Real Claw uses Google Analytics 4 as an optional analytics service to understand matters such as visits, pages viewed, device types, and general feature usage. The Google Analytics Measurement ID used by Real Claw is G-TYR0G5FRR8.
Google Analytics remains disabled unless a visitor selects “Accept Analytics.” Rejecting optional analytics does not prevent access to the camera, queue, controls, account, or gameplay features.
Operational logs created on Real Claw's servers or by infrastructure providers are addressed in the Privacy Policy. They are not necessarily cookies or information stored on your device.
5. Advertising Technologies
Real Claw is preparing to use Google AdSense advertising to help support the free Service. Public ad placements and Google Ad Manager rewarded sponsor messages remain disabled until the production advertising setup is approved and activated.
Real Claw is 100% free and supported by advertising. Basic, non-personalized advertising is required to enter the player queue. Visitors may continue watching without enabling ads. Personalized advertising and Analytics are separate optional choices and are not required for gameplay. Advertising availability may still depend on the visitor's region, Google's requirements, and any required consent-management platform.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads based on a visitor's prior visits to Real Claw or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to Real Claw and other sites on the internet.
Where a visitor has made an appropriate choice and applicable law permits it, Google and other advertising vendors may use information such as interests, demographics, prior browsing activity, or interactions with advertisers to personalize advertising. When personalized advertising is not selected or permitted, non-personalized or contextual advertising may still use limited technologies for ad delivery, frequency capping, aggregated measurement, security, and fraud prevention.
Advertising technologies may, when introduced, be used to:
- Deliver advertisements;
- Measure advertisement impressions and interactions;
- Prevent advertising fraud;
- Limit how often an advertisement is shown; or
- Personalize advertising where the user has made an appropriate choice and applicable law permits it.
Visitors may manage or opt out of personalized advertising from Google through Google Ads Settings. Visitors may also opt out of certain participating third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising through the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out tool or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out tool.
Google and any other advertising vendors or networks used by Real Claw operate under their own privacy policies. Learn more about how Google uses information for advertising.
Real Claw will not make a donation or acceptance of personalized advertising a condition of free gameplay.
6. Third-Party Services
Real Claw relies on third-party services to operate portions of the Service. A provider may use cookies or similar technologies when necessary to perform its function.
Current or potential providers may include:
- Google, Apple, and Firebase for authentication, account security, and database-related functionality;
- Hosting, cloud infrastructure, and content-delivery providers;
- Camera and video-streaming infrastructure;
- Security and abuse-prevention providers;
- Google Analytics for optional, consent-based website usage measurement; and
- Google AdSense and Google Ad Manager for consent-based advertising and optional rewarded sponsor messages when activated; and
- Payment providers, if introduced.
Third-party technologies are also subject to the applicable provider's terms and privacy practices. Real Claw does not control cookies placed directly by a third party on a separate website that you choose to visit, including a social network linked from a player's public profile.
7. Consent and Cookie Preferences
Real Claw does not rely on a statement that merely using the website constitutes consent to optional cookies.
Visitors are told that advertising supports free gameplay before entering the player queue and are given separate choices for optional Google Analytics and personalized advertising. The available controls allow visitors to:
- Accept optional technologies;
- Reject optional technologies;
- Continue with basic non-personalized ads while declining analytics and personalization;
- Choose optional Analytics independently; and
- Change or withdraw a previous choice.
Strictly necessary technologies may remain active because they are required to provide requested features and protect the Service.
8. Managing Cookies and Website Data Through Your Browser
Most browsers allow users to view, block, or delete cookies and other website data. Browser controls vary by browser and device. Current instructions are available from the browser providers:
Blocking or deleting website data may sign you out, reset your Real Claw guest identity, affect queue participation, remove saved preferences, or prevent certain features from working correctly.
9. Do Not Track and Universal Opt-Out Signals
Some browsers provide "Do Not Track" or universal opt-out signals, such as Global Privacy Control. Because there is not one uniform rule governing every signal and every type of processing, Real Claw's response may depend on the signal, the visitor's location, and the processing involved.
If Real Claw engages in targeted advertising, sale, or sharing of personal information that is subject to an applicable opt-out requirement, Real Claw will provide the required choices and honor recognized universal opt-out signals where required by law.
10. Retention
Cookies and similar technologies remain for different periods depending on their purpose. Session technologies generally expire after a session or a limited period. Persistent technologies may remain until they expire, are replaced, or are deleted through browser controls.
Real Claw and its service providers may retain related server-side records as described in the Privacy Policy. Deleting a cookie or browser-storage item does not necessarily delete information already stored in a Real Claw account or in legally retained server records.
11. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy as Real Claw develops, technologies or providers change, advertising or analytics are introduced, or legal requirements change.
When we update this policy, we will revise the "Last Updated" date at the top of the page. If a change is material, we may provide additional notice through the Service or another appropriate method.
12. Contact Real Claw
Questions or concerns about this Cookie Policy or Real Claw's use of cookies and similar technologies may be sent to:
Developed by Shane Burton
Email: realclawapp@gmail.com