Privacy Policy

1. Introduction & Agreement

At ArcadePoints Calc (referred to here as "we," "us," or "our website"), we operate an independent, community-driven points checking platform designed exclusively for students and cloud developers. We take your personal data privacy seriously. By accessing the tools, calculator functions, and catalogs on this website, you consent to the data collection and usage practices described in this document.

ArcadePoints Calc is designed to run entirely on a Privacy-First, Zero-Persistence Architecture. We do NOT host private databases to store, duplicate, or capture your Google Cloud Skills Boost credentials or public profile information.

When you input your Google Cloud Skills Boost public profile URL into our points calculator, our server-side fetching module performs a real-time HTTP fetch to parse only the public-facing badges and completion records visible on that URL. This lookup serves the single, temporary purpose of displaying your points and badge breakdowns in your active browser viewport. None of the parsed badge IDs, completion timestamps, profile names, or metrics are saved, indexed, or persistent in any storage system.

To enhance your convenience and eliminate repetitive tasks, we offer a optional "Remember my profile" mechanism. When you activate this toggle, your public profile URL is written securely to your browser's local storage (a localized file system strictly enclosed within your physical device).

This URL parameter is never transmitted to us or any remote systems when you load the application homepage. It is read locally by client scripts solely to pre-populate the profile URL input form. You can immediately wipe this configuration at any time by toggling off the "Remember my profile" switch or manual clearing cookies/local site data inside your browser settings panel.

Because we maintain no central server-side user directories or database structures containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII), we have zero capabilities to monetize, trade, sell, or disclose your user profiles, badge stats, or emails to external marketing entities. Your data remains strictly your own.

To ensure high site availability, optimize performance thresholds, and troubleshoot server routing errors, we utilize industry-standard analytics tools (such as Google Analytics or Vercel Web Analytics). These scripts capture strictly anonymous technical parameters, including:

• Anonymized IP fragments.
• Browser client types and device window dimensions.
• Approximate geographic parameters (country/region).
• General navigation paths, clicks, and page loads.

This statistical telemetry is aggregated cleanly and contains zero trace variables connecting back to your individual public Google Cloud profile URL or your specific name.

To sustain the free availability of our calculator tool, educational guides, and community resources, ArcadePoints Calc utilizes Google AdSense, a third-party advertising service operated by Google LLC, to display contextual advertisements on our web pages.

Google AdSense may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as web beacons and pixel tags) to serve advertisements based on your prior visits to this website or other websites across the internet. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its advertising partners to serve ads to you based on your browsing patterns. You can review how Google manages data in its advertising products by visiting Google's Advertising Privacy Policy.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Additionally, you can opt out of third-party vendor cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

This website uses cookies and similar browser storage mechanisms for the following clearly defined purposes:

• Essential Cookies: Used for basic site functionality such as remembering your profile URL preference (via the "Remember my profile" toggle stored in your browser's localStorage).
• Analytics Cookies: Deployed by Google Analytics to collect anonymized traffic metrics, page views, and session durations. These do not contain personally identifiable information.
• Advertising Cookies: Set by Google AdSense and its advertising partners to deliver relevant ads, measure ad performance, and limit ad frequency. These cookies may track your browsing activity across multiple websites.

You can manage or delete cookies at any time through your browser's privacy settings. Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of certain features on this website. Most modern browsers allow you to block third-party cookies specifically, which will prevent personalized ad tracking while preserving core site functions.

Regardless of your geographic location, we believe every user deserves transparent control over their data. While ArcadePoints Calc does not maintain user accounts, databases, or personal profiles on our servers, you retain full rights under applicable data protection regulations:

• Right to Information: You may request details about what data, if any, has been processed during your session.
• Right to Deletion: You can clear all locally stored data (profile URL preferences) by toggling off "Remember my profile" or clearing your browser's site data.
• Right to Opt Out of Ads: You may opt out of personalized advertising via Google's Ad Settings or your browser's cookie preferences.
• Right to Contact Us: For any privacy-related queries, email us at team.rexakit@gmail.com.

Our portal references learning materials, learning guides, and official platform coordinates, including external domains such as Google Cloud Skills Boost, Google Cloud Arcade, YouTube channel (GCP DECODE), and Qwiklabs support portals. Once you click these redirects and exit our server boundary, please review the individual privacy disclosures of those target platforms, as we carry no authority over their external cookie deployments or user registration policies.

We reserve the absolute right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time to accommodate changes in Google Cloud Arcade catalogs or Next.js core API updates. The current active draft will always carry the chronological version stamp. For questions or suggestions regarding this privacy framework, feel free to send us an email at team.rexakit@gmail.com.