Privacy & Cookies

Who this policy covers

True SWTOR Guilds is a fan-operated community website. This policy applies to trueswtor.com, republic.trueswtor.com, and empire.trueswtor.com.

The sites are run by their administrator, known on Discord as miamistar, who is responsible for the processing of personal data described on this page. See Contact us for how to get in touch.

The sites do not provide user accounts, payments, or application forms. They link to external services such as Discord, which operate under their own privacy policies. This project is not affiliated with BioWare, Broadsword, Electronic Arts, Lucasfilm, or Disney.

Hosting and server logs

Hostinger hosts the sites and delivers them through its content delivery network. As with any website, each request is recorded in server logs: your IP address, the date and time, the page or file requested, the response status, the referring page, and your browser's user agent.

These logs are needed to deliver the sites, keep them secure, and investigate errors. Hostinger keeps them for a limited time under its own retention settings, and we do not use them to identify or profile visitors.

Microsoft Clarity analytics

We use Microsoft Clarity to understand navigation, page usability, performance, and which content is useful. The Clarity tag does not load until you choose Accept analytics in our privacy controls.

If you accept, we send Microsoft Clarity a Consent V2 signal granting analytics storage. Advertising storage is always denied, and we do not use Clarity for advertising. If you reject on your first visit, our site does not contact Clarity. You can change or revoke your choice at any time through Cookie settings in any site footer.

Clarity's project-level cookie setting is disabled by default. A valid consent signal is therefore required before Clarity can use analytics cookies for your visit.

Cookies and local storage

We do not use browser local storage for analytics consent. We use one necessary first-party cookie to remember your choice across the gateway and both faction subdomains. Optional Clarity cookies can be used only after acceptance.

After consent, Microsoft may also use operational or analytics cookies on Microsoft domains, including CLID, ANONCHK, MR, MUID, and SM, subject to browser support and Microsoft's policies.

What Clarity may collect

After you accept analytics, Clarity may collect page and DOM layout information; clicks, scrolling, mouse movement, selection, resizing, and other interaction events; script or image errors and performance diagnostics; device and browser information; and approximate location inferred from an IP address.

Clarity uses DOM and mutation information to reconstruct session playback. Microsoft states that privacy-sensitive content is masked rather than sent as readable text. We do not intentionally send character names, Discord identities, or other guild roster information as visitor identity data.

Why we use analytics

• Improve navigation, mobile layout, readability, and accessibility.
• Find broken interactions, JavaScript errors, and performance problems.
• Understand which guides and guild information visitors find useful.

We do not sell analytics data, use it to make decisions about guild membership, or use it for targeted advertising.

Storage and retention

Microsoft stores Clarity data in its Azure cloud services and controls the service's storage and deletion processes. Microsoft's current documentation states: Playback data is retained for 30 days. Click data is retained for 9 months. Sessions that are labeled or favorited can also be retained for 9 months.

The ttr_analytics_consent preference remains only in your browser for up to one year unless you clear it sooner. True SWTOR does not copy this preference to its own server database.

Discord community widget

The Republic homepage and Recruitment page show a live member list from our Discord server. When either page loads, your browser requests the server's public widget data directly from Discord and loads member avatar images from Discord's servers. This happens automatically and is separate from your analytics choice.

As with any web request, Discord receives your IP address, browser details, and the address of our site. We do not receive or store this information, and our site sets no cookies for the widget. Discord handles these requests under the Discord Privacy Policy.

The list shows what our Discord server publishes through its widget: the server name, how many members are online, and each listed member's name, avatar, status, and current game or activity when they share it. Members appear only while their Discord status is online, idle, or do not disturb.

Legal bases

Where the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies, we rely on these legal bases:

• Hosting and server logs: our legitimate interests in delivering the sites securely and reliably (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
• Consent preference cookie: our legitimate interest in remembering and respecting your analytics choice (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
• Microsoft Clarity analytics: your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time.
• Discord community widget: our legitimate interest in showing the community's current activity on the Republic site (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
• Privacy questions and requests: answering you and meeting our legal obligations (Article 6(1)(c) and (f) GDPR).

International data transfers

Microsoft and Discord may process data in the United States and in other countries outside the European Economic Area. Each company's privacy policy explains how it protects these transfers, for example with standard contractual clauses or the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

Your privacy choices

• Reject: Clarity does not load on your first visit.
• Accept: Clarity loads with analytics consent and advertising storage denied.
• Change or revoke: use Cookie settings in any footer. Revocation sends a denied Consent V2 signal and updates the shared preference.
• Reset: clear cookies for trueswtor.com in your browser to remove the saved preference.

Analytics is optional. Refusing it does not restrict access to any page or guild information.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you have the right to:

• find out whether we process your personal data and get a copy of it;
• have inaccurate data corrected;
• have your data deleted, or its use restricted;
• receive data you provided to us in a portable format;
• object to processing based on our legitimate interests;
• withdraw your analytics consent at any time, without affecting processing that took place before.

To use these rights, contact us as described below. We aim to respond within one month. You can also complain to a data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the country where you live or work.

We do not make decisions about you based solely on automated processing. You do not have to provide any personal data to use the sites.

Children's privacy and external links

This community and its recruitment information are intended for adults aged 18 and over. External destinations such as Discord and Microsoft are responsible for their own data practices.

Changes to this policy

We may update this page when the sites, analytics configuration, or applicable service documentation changes. The effective and last-updated dates at the top identify the current version.

Contact us

For a privacy question or request, send a direct message on Discord to the site administrator, miamistar, or reach them through our official Discord server. We keep your messages only as long as needed to handle your request. Because Clarity data is pseudonymous and we do not know a visitor's real identity, locating an individual record may not always be possible.