Cookie Policy
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A handful of small first-party cookies, one of them just to remember that you said no to the others.
Written in plain language by the people who run VoxelRank. It describes what this site actually does – it is not legal advice, and it does not replace advice from a qualified lawyer in your country.
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The cookies we set#
This is every cookie VoxelRank can set, what it is for and how long it lives. Essential cookies are the ones without which the feature you asked for simply cannot work – they do not need your consent, but you should still know about them. In the EU, the EEA, the UK, Switzerland, Brazil and Canada, optional cookies are never set until you accept them. Elsewhere the analytics cookies are on by default and you can switch them off in Cookie settings.
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration | Essential? |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga / _ga_*Third party · Google |
Google Analytics. Counts visits and page views in aggregate so we know which parts of the site get used. The script loads for every visitor, but this cookie is only set while analytics are on: after you accept, or by default outside the regions that ask first (see below). | Up to 2 years | Optional |
_clck / _clskThird party · Microsoft |
Microsoft Clarity. Session recordings and heatmaps that show how visitors use the site, so we can spot confusing pages. Loads only while analytics are on: after you accept, or by default outside the regions that ask first (see below). | _clck up to 1 year, _clsk the session | Optional |
sidFirst party |
Keeps you signed in. Holds a random session id only – no personal data is stored in the cookie itself. | 30 days | Essential |
langFirst party |
Remembers the interface language you picked so we do not fall back to your browser header on every visit. | 1 year | Essential |
themeFirst party |
Remembers your dark/light choice. Your browser may also store the same choice locally under the key "vs-theme". | 1 year | Essential |
flashFirst party |
Carries a one-off confirmation or error message across a redirect ("Vote counted", "Saved"). | 30 seconds | Essential |
consentFirst party |
Stores your cookie choice ("essential" or "all") so we stop asking. Without it we cannot honour your decision. | 1 year | Essential |
ignFirst party |
Remembers the in-game name you last voted with, so you do not retype it on every server, and so a vote reminder can be switched on in one tap. It is the name you already publish by voting. | 1 year | Essential |
anonFirst party |
A random id that lets you keep saved searches without an account. It is not linked to any other data. | 1 year | Essential |
favFirst party |
Your favourited servers while you are not signed in. Holds server ids only, and moves onto your account if you register. | 1 year | Essential |
ownstepsFirst party |
Which "next step" suggestions a listing owner chose to hide on their own server page. Holds server ids and step names only, and is only set when you press the close button. | 2 weeks | Essential |
swipe_id / swipe_qFirst party |
The "Find my server" deck: a random id so the same server is not shown twice, and the filters you last swiped with. | 180 days | Essential |
carouselFirst party |
Whether you collapsed the featured-server carousel on the front page, so it stays the way you left it. | 7 days | Essential |
lastGameFirst party |
The game you last browsed or voted for, so the site opens on that list instead of asking again. | 1 year | Essential |
oauth_nFirst party |
A one-off random value used while you sign in with Google or Discord, to prove the reply came back from the same sign-in you started. Deleted the moment the sign-in finishes. | 10 to 20 minutes | Essential |
steam_voteFirst party |
Set only when you press "Sign in with Steam" on a vote page. A random token that ties Steam's reply to this browser and then tells us which SteamID your vote is for. It does not sign you in to an account here. | 6 hours | Essential |
steam_loginFirst party |
Set only when you press "Continue with Steam" to log in or to connect Steam in Account settings. A random token that ties Steam's reply to this browser, so nobody else can finish the sign-in you started. Deleted when the sign-in finishes. | 10 to 20 minutes | Essential |
refFirst party |
Set only if you arrived through somebody's referral link. Holds their referral code so the person who pointed you here gets credited if you sign up and list a server. It is not used to build a profile of you and it is never shared. | 30 days | Optional |
add_pendingFirst party |
Set if you start adding a server before signing in. Holds a random token pointing at the draft we saved, so the form still has your answers when you come back or finish signing in. It holds nothing about you. | 2 hours | Essential |
add_restoredFirst party |
A one-off note, set when a draft you left behind is handed back to your new account, so the page can tell you it was restored. Deleted as soon as that message is shown. | 1 hour, or until the message is shown | Essential |
adm_outreachFirst party |
Only set for site administrators, by a staff filter on the server list. It remembers which servers the list should hide, so the choice stays the same from page to page. Other visitors never get it. | 90 days | Essential |
Tebex checkout cookiesThird party (Tebex) |
Set by Tebex only if you start a payment for a premium listing, to keep your basket and prevent payment fraud. No Tebex cookie is set until you open a checkout. | Set by Tebex, typically the session up to 1 year | Optional |
Your browser may also keep a local-storage entry named vs-theme with your dark/light preference. It never leaves your device and is not sent with requests.
Storage that is not a cookie#
Two things here are not cookies but are close enough that you should know about them. Neither is set until you ask for it, and neither is used for tracking.
- A service worker (
/sw.js) is registered only when you switch on vote reminders. It exists to receive one kind of message – "you can vote again" – and to open the vote page when you tap it. It caches nothing and reads nothing about your browsing. Removing the site's data in your browser settings, or switching reminders off, unregisters it. - A push subscription, created by your browser and held by us, is what a reminder is delivered to. It is an address at your browser vendor's push service, not an identifier we invented, and it is deleted when you turn reminders off. What it holds is set out in the privacy policy.
If you install this site to your home screen, that install is entirely local to your device – we are not told about it. On iPhone and iPad it is, however, the only way Apple allows notifications at all.
Your current choice#
Right now this browser is set to: no choice yet, so the default for where you are applies (see below).
In the EU, the EEA, the UK, Switzerland, Brazil and Canada you see a banner, and until you answer it only essential cookies are used: no analytics cookie is set and no advertising or profiling script runs. Everywhere else there is no banner, and the analytics cookies (Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity) are on until you switch them off. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, you get essential only wherever you are. To know which of these applies, your browser asks our server once and keeps the yes-or-no answer for 7 days in local storage, under vr-region. Your country itself is not stored.
What we deliberately do not do#
- No retargeting pixels, and no ad script at all until you accept optional cookies.
- No cross-site tracking of our own, and no sharing or selling of user data to brokers or advertisers.
- No fingerprinting scripts, and no third-party JavaScript beyond the ad units and the analytics scripts covered below.
- No analytics cookies before you choose in the EU, the EEA, the UK, Switzerland, Brazil and Canada: there Google Analytics only sends anonymous signals with no
_gacookie, and Microsoft Clarity does not load, until you accept.
Third-party content on our pages#
Two things on this site load from someone else's server and therefore see your IP address:
- Player avatars next to recent votes, rendered by crafthead.net. They do not set cookies for us, but the request itself is visible to them - from our server, never your browser.
- Tebex checkout, only after you click to buy a premium listing. Tebex sets its own cookies at that point, under its own policy.
Blocking third-party images or scripts in your browser will not break anything important here.
Controlling cookies in your browser#
Every major browser lets you view, block and delete cookies in its privacy settings, and offers a private window that discards them when you close it. Blocking our essential cookies will sign you out and reset your language and theme on every page load, but the site will otherwise still work.
We honour the Global Privacy Control signal by treating it as "essential only". We do not act on the older Do Not Track header, which browsers have effectively abandoned.
Trademarks and affiliation#
VoxelRank is an independent, community-run listing site. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or in any way officially connected to Mojang Studios, Mojang AB, Microsoft Corporation, or any other publisher, developer or rights holder of a game listed here. All game names, logos and trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used here only to describe the servers being listed.