Your data on this site

The Neroland website is a static site with no accounts. Its only form is the Sentry problem report. Apart from analytics, which you can turn off, it sets no cookies and loads no third-party scripts.

Analytics (on by default, easy to turn off)

The site uses Google Analytics through Firebase (operated by Google) to understand which pages are useful, and Sentry (operated by Functional Software, Inc.) to diagnose errors, measure page performance, and collect sampled browser profiles, logs and page-view metrics. Both follow the same consent choice and regional rules below:

• Most visitors, including South Africa: analytics is on by default. On your first visit a notice explains it and lets you turn it off straight away, and you can turn it off at any time afterwards.
• The EU, EEA, UK, Switzerland, Gibraltar, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man: nothing is loaded until you choose Allow analytics. If you choose No thanks, none of it is loaded.
• Anywhere: if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, analytics is never loaded.

To tell which applies, your browser asks this site's own server once per visit. The server reads the country from the connection (our host, Cloudflare, provides it) and replies only "ask first" or "don't". The country is not sent back, logged or stored, and the answer is kept in your browser's sessionStorage until you close the tab. If the check fails, we ask first.

• What is collected: pages viewed, referring page, approximate location (country/city derived from your IP address, which Google Analytics does not store), device, browser and screen type, and a random identifier kept in the _ga and _ga_* cookies. Sentry also receives browser error and performance data, sampled browser profiles (10% of sessions), warning and error logs, page-view metrics, and sampled session replays (10% of sessions and all sessions with errors). Replays show the site's own public page text, but anything you type into a form or the search box, and the search results, are masked. Visitors who choose “Report a problem” can also send a message and an optional screenshot; the form does not ask for a name or email address.
• What is not: your name, email or account details, what you type into search, and nothing is used for advertising. Google signals, ad personalisation and cross-site ad features are switched off.
• Cookies: _ga and _ga_*, expiring after 6 months.
• Where it goes: Google (Google LLC) processes Analytics data for us in our Firebase project nerolandmc. Sentry data is sent to Sentry's Germany data region. These providers may process data under their data processing terms and applicable transfer safeguards.
• Retention: event-level data is kept in Google Analytics for 2 months, then deleted; only aggregated reports are kept longer.
• Legal basis: in South Africa and other places where analytics is on by default, our legitimate interest in understanding how the site is used (POPIA section 11(1)(f)); turning analytics off is your objection under section 11(3) and we stop straight away. In the EU, EEA, UK, Switzerland, Gibraltar and the Crown Dependencies, your consent (GDPR / UK GDPR article 6(1)(a), and the ePrivacy rules on cookies). We remember your choice in your browser's localStorage for 12 months, then ask again.

You can change your mind at any time with Cookie settings (also in the footer). Turning analytics off (Turn off analytics or No thanks) stops collection and deletes the analytics cookies. To ask for access to or deletion of your data, email info@neroland.co.za (our Information Officer). You may also complain to the Information Regulator (South Africa) or your local data protection authority.

NeroLink beta sign-up (closed)

The NeroLink beta sign-up form closed when the app launched on Google Play, and the site no longer collects email addresses. Addresses given through it before then are deleted once the beta is wrapped up, and within 12 months of sign-up at the latest. To have yours deleted sooner, email info@neroland.co.za.

Search

Wiki search runs entirely in your browser against a pre-built index served from this site. What you type is never sent anywhere, and it is masked in Sentry session replays.

The NeroLink tip

Some wiki pages show a small tip about the NeroLink app. If you close it, your browser remembers that in sessionStorage until you close the tab. It is not a cookie, holds nothing about you and is never sent anywhere.

Language

The site is available in English, Simplified Chinese and Italian. The language you pick is part of the page address (for example /zh/ or /it/) and nothing else: it is not stored in a cookie or in your browser's storage, and it is not sent to analytics. Analytics records the English address of each page, whichever language you read it in.

Hosting

Like any website, the host that serves these files may keep short-lived technical server logs (such as IP address and request time) for security and reliability. Those logs are not used to identify or profile visitors.

The mods themselves

Nero mods are built privacy-first in line with POPIA and GDPR: player data is minimised, attribution features are opt-in, and personal data can be exported or erased. Each mod documents its own handling — for example Neroland Core and NeroTech.

The mods also send anonymous crash reports to the developers through Sentry (EU servers) so bugs can be found and fixed: the error and stack trace, plus mod, Minecraft, loader, OS and Java versions. Never your username, UUID, IP address, chat or world data, and file paths are scrubbed of your account name. This is on by default; turn it off any time by setting telemetryEnabled=false in the mod's config file (for example config/nerolandcore.properties). The setting is local to your install, so a server can't turn it on for you. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in keeping the mods stable (POPIA section 11(1)(f); GDPR article 6(1)(f)); turning it off is your objection.

The NeroLink app

The NeroLink companion app and its relay have their own policy, covering what stays on your phone, what is sent to your server and the relay, retention and how to erase your data: NeroLink privacy policy.

The app's usage statistics work differently from this website's analytics and are covered by that policy, not by your choice here. They are only for players aged 18 and over (the app doesn't ask for or store your age; under-18s are asked to tap Turn off or No thanks). A one-time notice on first launch explains them, and nothing is collected until you have answered it. If your phone's region setting is in the EU/EEA, the UK or Switzerland, or the app can't tell, they stay off unless you choose Allow (consent); elsewhere they are on by default (our legitimate interests; turning them off is your objection). The region is read on the phone and is not sent or stored. You can switch them off at any time in Settings → Privacy → Share usage statistics. Crash reports in the app stay off unless you turn them on, and push notifications are only set up if you say yes after pairing with a server through the relay.

External links

Links to GitHub, Discord and CurseForge take you to services with their own privacy policies.