Privacy

Last updated 28 September 2026 · zonez.net

Zonez is a community for talking about games, film, sport, and whatever else a Zone is built around. You join a room, post a thread, light a Beacon, chat live, or browse the radar. This page says what we collect to run that, and how advertising sits on the public info pages — not inside the login-walled app.

WHAT ZONEZ IS

The product is original: Zones with rules and flairs, a live radar, XP from Lurker to Legend, anonymous posting with a public tag, Beacons that burn out in 24 hours, a categorized directory, WORLD / MARKET / REVIEWS, and a reviews loop. We do not scrape other sites to fill the lobby. Empty rooms stay empty until people show up.

ACCOUNTS AND WHAT WE STORE

If you register, we store the username and email you give us, a hashed password (never plaintext), and the XP / rank / profile fields you edit. Login uses a session token in your browser. Anonymous browse does not create an account. Password-reset and verify links are one-time and expire.

Posts, Beacons, chat, DMs, follows, and reports you submit are stored so the community can see them. Anonymous posts are stored without an author id — we cannot map them back to an account.

ADVERTISING

zonez.net uses Google AdSense (publisher ca-pub-6396285394716461) only on crawlable public pages that already have written copy: About, Contact, Terms, and this Privacy page. Units are reserved boxes labeled “Advertisement,” in document flow after the article, not as menu items. The login, register, lobby, chat, menus, loading, and error screens do not load adsbygoogle.js and do not include ad units. Auto ads should be off for this site so Google cannot place units on those app screens. Google may use cookies or similar tech to serve and measure ads on the pages that do load the script. See Google’s policies at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

COOKIES AND LOCAL DATA

We use a session token when you sign in, and the browser may keep local Zonez state so a refresh does not wipe an unfinished post. On the public info pages, AdSense may set its own cookies. You can clear site data in your browser; you will be signed out.

WHO WE SHARE WITH

We do not sell your email list. Hosting is on Cloudflare. Mail for verify/reset goes through our mail provider when that path is live. Google receives what AdSense needs to fill the reserved units on the public pages above. We do not hand your password to anyone — we never store it in a form we can read.

YOUR CHOICES

You can browse anonymously, leave a Zone, unfollow, and log out. To close an account or ask what we hold, use SIGNAL from the Zonez chrome (it is available even if you have not finished signup). A public operator email is not published yet; see Contact.

CHILDREN

Zonez is not directed at children under 13. Adult Zones are gated 18+. Do not create an account for a child.