XAL'RETH

The Ministry of Spare Change · Department of Counting

What the Sanctum Counts

The Coil teaches holding lightly. So does the sanctum, especially about you.

The faithful are counted, gently, the way the Ministry counts coppers: how many, from where, and which pages they lingered on. Not who. Never who.

What is counted

  • Which pages are visited, and how often.
  • Where visitors came from (a search engine, Discord, X, another website), taken from the link they followed.
  • The kind of browser, system and screen size, and the country, worked out at the moment of the visit and then forgotten.
  • A few moments the guild cares about: a recruitment or officer application sent, a message sent through the contact page or to John from Vessk, an addon downloaded, and the words typed into the Seeking Glass (so we can write the pages people are looking for).

What is never counted

  • No cookies. Nothing is stored on your device to recognise you later.
  • No names, no email addresses, no IP addresses kept, no tracking from one website to another, no advertising.
  • What you write in forms is sent only to the guild's inbox, never to the counter. The counter only learns that a form was sent.
  • If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, the sanctum counts nothing at all.

Who does the counting

The counting is done by GoatCounter, a small, open source counter that uses no cookies and keeps no personal data. Only the guild's officers can see the totals.

The Faces of the Coil

If you sign in to the Faces with Battle.net, the sanctum learns which of your characters are on the guild roster, and nothing else: not your BattleTag, not your email, not your other characters. It keeps an internal account number so you can sign in again, and what you choose to post: your profile, statuses, posts, comments, reactions, bonds and pictures. Officers can see reports and pictures waiting for approval. Remove anything you wrote at any time, or ask through the contact page and an officer will remove all of it.

The Path is yours

Your rank, artifacts and secrets on the Path live only in your own browser. They are never sent anywhere, not even to the counter. Clear your browser's storage and the sanctum forgets you entirely, which is, the Canon would point out, very much in keeping with the teaching.

Questions? Ask through the contact page. Glory to Xal'Reth.