--- title: "Website privacy | Boom and Bust: A Minister's Dilemma" canonical_url: https://www.ministersdilemma.com/website-privacy/ inLanguage: en last_updated: 2026-11-06 --- Ministry notice / Website only # Website privacy Last updated 6 November 2026 You can read this website and browse every screenshot without enabling optional services. YouTube, Vercel Web Analytics and Google Analytics 4 stay off until you allow each service. Change your choices at any time. This notice covers **ministersdilemma.com**, operated by **Valtice Center for Economic and Statistical Research (VCESR)**. Contact [info@vcesr.com](mailto:info@vcesr.com) about website privacy. The separate [game privacy policy](https://www.ministersdilemma.com/privacy/) covers the desktop game, accounts, multiplayer and local saves. Your website choices do not change the game's settings or permissions. - [Essential services](https://www.ministersdilemma.com/website-privacy/#essential) - [Your choices](https://www.ministersdilemma.com/website-privacy/#choices) - [YouTube](https://www.ministersdilemma.com/website-privacy/#videos) - [Vercel statistics](https://www.ministersdilemma.com/website-privacy/#analytics) - [Google Analytics 4](https://www.ministersdilemma.com/website-privacy/#ga4) - [Your rights](https://www.ministersdilemma.com/website-privacy/#rights) ## 1. Essential website services Vercel hosts and protects the website. Delivering a page involves technical information such as your IP address, requested address, request time, browser information and a referring page where your browser provides it. Hosting and security logs are separate from the optional visitor statistics below. We rely on our legitimate interests in operating and protecting a working website for this essential processing. Fonts, screenshots and trailer previews are hosted with this site. We have no website login, advertising pixels, contact forms or store checkout. If you email us, we receive the contact details and information you choose to send so we can answer your request. ## 2. Your privacy choices The privacy notice offers **Allow optional**, **Only essentials** and **Choose settings**. Settings let you allow Vercel statistics, Google Analytics 4 and YouTube independently. All optional services start off. We rely on your consent to enable them, and declining does not block the website or screenshot gallery. [Manage privacy choices](https://www.ministersdilemma.com/website-privacy/#choices) We remember your selections in your browser's local storage under ministersdilemma.website-privacy.v2 for up to 180 days. This record contains the choices, their version and the time you saved them. It is not sent to us as a visitor identifier. If storage is unavailable, your selection applies to the current page. Clearing browser data, changing browser or using another device can mean choosing again. We ask returning visitors for fresh choices when an additional optional service is activated, including the introduction of Vercel statistics. Use Privacy choices in the footer to withdraw consent. Disabling YouTube removes loaded players. Disabling an already loaded analytics service reloads the page so its script stops running. Withdrawing Google Analytics consent also removes its analytics cookies that this site can access. Withdrawal stops future use on this site; it does not undo processing that already took place. JavaScript is disabled. Optional analytics and embedded video players remain off. Direct links to YouTube still take you to that service. ## 3. Optional YouTube trailers Before permission, no YouTube player, thumbnail request or Google video connection is loaded. If you choose Play while YouTube is blocked, we ask for permission first. Allowing YouTube does not enable either analytics service. Even after permission, a player waits for your Play action. We use YouTube's privacy-enhanced player at youtube-nocookie.com. Loading or playing it sends Google technical and viewing information, including your IP address, browser and device information, referring website and video interactions. YouTube may use browser storage or show advertising according to its policies and your settings. Privacy-enhanced mode does not make viewing anonymous or guarantee no storage. Use Stop video to remove a player. The separate Watch on YouTube links open YouTube's website and follow its own practices. Read the [Google Privacy Policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy) and [YouTube Terms of Service](https://www.youtube.com/t/terms). ## 4. Optional Vercel Web Analytics Vercel Web Analytics is available as an optional service and stays blocked until you enable Vercel visitor statistics. We use aggregate reports to understand which pages people visit and how they find the site. Reports can include page addresses, referring sites, broad location, device type, browser and operating system. Our integration strips query strings and fragments from the page address and does not send game accounts, saves, personal identifiers or custom events. Vercel describes this service as cookie-free and uses a request-derived hash for short-lived visitor recognition. Its visitor session is discarded after 24 hours; this is separate from the retention of aggregate reports and hosting logs. Read [Vercel's Web Analytics privacy information](https://vercel.com/docs/analytics/privacy-policy) and [Vercel's Privacy Notice](https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-notice). ## 5. Optional Google Analytics 4 Google Analytics 4 is a separate optional service, using measurement ID G-RTKB1YHQQ4. It only loads if you allow Google Analytics 4. Before permission, no GA4 script or measurement request is sent. We use basic consent mode, so declining GA4 does not cause cookieless measurement pings from our integration. When enabled, Google processes usage information such as page visits, referring sites, browser and device information and approximate location. GA4 can set first-party analytics cookies such as _ga and _ga_*. We configure these cookies to expire after 180 days without extending them on every visit. Query strings and fragments are removed from the page address we supply, and the referring address is reduced to its origin. Our configuration disables Google Signals and advertising personalization and denies advertising storage, advertising user data and advertising personalization consent. We do not link game accounts or saves to website analytics. Google's report retention and processing also depend on the GA4 property's settings and Google's policies. See [Google's Privacy Policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy). ## 6. Providers, external links and retention Vercel receives information needed for hosting and any Vercel statistics you enable. Google receives information for the YouTube and GA4 services you enable. These providers operate internationally and may process information outside your country, including in the United States. Their notices describe processing, retention and relevant transfer safeguards. Contact us about the arrangements applicable to information handled on our behalf. Our consent record lasts up to 180 days on your device. Analytics reports follow the relevant account and provider retention settings. Hosting logs follow Vercel's operational settings. We keep support correspondence for as long as needed to answer and follow up, or to meet a legal obligation or handle a dispute. Following links to Epic Games, YouTube, VCESR or another website takes you to a separate service. Epic handles its store accounts and wishlists. This website does not receive your Epic login or wishlist details. Each destination has its own terms and privacy practices. ## 7. Your rights and contacting us Where applicable law provides these rights, you can ask for access, correction, deletion, restriction, a portable copy, or object to processing based on legitimate interests. You can withdraw optional-service consent through Privacy choices at any time. Contact [info@vcesr.com](mailto:info@vcesr.com) with the service and request involved. Do not send passwords. We may need proportionate information to verify a request. Where the GDPR applies, we normally respond within one month and explain any lawful extension. You may complain to your local data-protection authority, including the [Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens](https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/) in the Netherlands. Contacting us first is not a condition of that right. We will update this website notice when its services or data practices change. A material change to optional processing may require asking for fresh choices. This website policy does not replace or modify the separate game privacy policy. ## Related pages - [Game overview](https://www.ministersdilemma.com/) - [Contact VCESR](https://www.ministersdilemma.com/contact/) - [Guide for agents](https://www.ministersdilemma.com/llms.txt) - [Website privacy](https://www.ministersdilemma.com/website-privacy/) - [Game privacy](https://www.ministersdilemma.com/privacy/)