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Who runs this site
SeedLookout (seedlookout.com, including its translated pages) decides how the data described on this page is used and is its data controller. You can reach us here:
SeedLookoutcontact@seedlookout.com
Seeds, maps and saved data
The seed map runs its calculations in your browser and does not send your seed to a map-generation service. Seeds and map settings are part of shareable URLs, so a shared link, and the request logs of our hosting provider, can contain them.
World files you open are read on your device. Saved map markers, completed locations, seed-search checkpoints, favorites and named presets stay in this browser's local storage and do not sync between devices. The export buttons save backup files to your device, and each tool can delete the data it saved. It also remembers your language, a language suggestion you dismissed, the edition you last picked in the home search, the player location you set for each world on the seed map, and the worlds you recently opened there, so the map can reopen your most recent one.
SeedLookout has no accounts, submission forms or advertising scripts. The copy buttons use your clipboard only when you press them.
Advertising
SeedLookout currently shows no ads and loads no advertising scripts. The following explains our plans for future advertising.
When ads start, third-party vendors, including Google, will use cookies or similar identifiers to serve and measure ads. With your consent where required, Google and its partners may personalize ads using your visits to SeedLookout and other websites. Ad requests can share your IP address, browser details and the address of the page you are visiting.
Read how Google handles this information: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
You can opt out of Google's personalized ads in Ads Settings. This does not remove ads or replace your consent choices on this site.
Before personalized ads run for visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA), the UK or Switzerland, we will ask for consent through a Google-certified consent platform that uses the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. Advertising consent is separate from our Analytics choice.
Without consent to personalized ads, we will show only non-personalized or limited ads where allowed, or no ads. Non-personalized ads can still use cookies for measurement and frequency limits, so we will ask for consent to those cookies where required. Limited ads can still process data to deliver ads and prevent fraud.
Before ads start, we will update this page with the providers and consent controls we actually use, including any regional opt-out controls.
Analytics
We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics. It does not use cookies, local storage or fingerprinting, and it does not follow you across other websites. It reports the page you viewed, the referring site, your browser and device type, your country and page load timings, which we see only as totals. The seeds and settings in a page address can be part of the page it reports.
We also use Google Analytics. Whether it runs before you choose depends on where you are visiting from. In some places, such as Quebec, we ask first. In others, such as Ontario, it starts on, with a notice that lets you turn it off. A choice you already saved in this browser applies first, wherever you are. In detail:
- In the European Economic Area (the EU countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway), the UK, Switzerland, Quebec and Brazil, Google Analytics runs only if you accept it in the cookie banner. Until you accept, the page does not load any Google Analytics code and sends nothing to Google.
- Everywhere else, Google Analytics is on by default. A notice says so until you answer it with OK or Turn off, and you can turn it off at any time.
- If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal and you have not made a choice here, we treat it as a request to turn Google Analytics off where it would otherwise be on by default. An earlier saved Accept can keep Google Analytics on even when your browser sends this signal. Open Cookie settings to check whether Google Analytics is on or off and change it.
- If we cannot tell where you are visiting from, or your browser blocks local storage, we ask first, as in the regions above.
To choose, the page asks our own server, a Cloudflare Worker on seedlookout.com, which country, and in Canada which province, Cloudflare places your IP address in. It asks only when you have not made a choice or when you open Cookie settings. We do not save the lookup answer on our server; your browser keeps it for this tab, in session storage as sl_consent_region. IP-based location can be wrong or changed by a VPN, so the banner may reflect a different region.
When Google Analytics runs, it sets cookies named _ga and _ga_ followed by an ID so it can tell repeat visits apart. They last up to two years in your browser unless you clear them or turn Google Analytics off. It reports the pages you view, the referring site, your approximate location, your device and browser, and how you use the pages, such as scrolling, clicks on links to other sites and downloads. Page addresses can contain seeds and map settings, so those reach Google too. Google signals and ad personalization are turned off, and we do not use Google Analytics for advertising. Google processes this data under Google's privacy policy.
Google Analytics has separate retention settings for user and event data. Standard aggregated reports can remain available after those periods. Read about Google Analytics data retention.
While Google Analytics runs, it also receives a few product events: copying a seed, command or link, opening the seed map, changing the map's world or turning map features on or off, running a finder (with the edition, version, outcome, error category and number of results), setting a player location on the seed map (only whether you tapped the map or typed coordinates), choosing a language or answering a language suggestion, and showing more seeds in the list. Each event also says what kind of page it happened on. Events never include the seed, coordinates or the text you copied, though page addresses can still contain seeds, as described above.
Your choice is saved in this browser's local storage as sl_analytics_consent, the date of a Decline or Turn off as sl_analytics_declined, and OK on the notice as sl_analytics_notice. You can change your choice at any time with , also at the bottom of every page. If you decline or turn Google Analytics off after it ran, it stops and its cookies are deleted. If your browser blocks local storage, we ask first on every page and do not load Google Analytics unless you accept.
We remember a Decline or Turn off for six months from the day you made it (by UTC date). After that we ask again with Accept and Decline, wherever you are visiting from, and Google Analytics stays off until you accept. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal where Google Analytics would otherwise be on by default, we keep it off and do not ask again. A Decline saved before we started dating them counts from your next visit. An Accept is remembered until you change it or clear this site's data.
Error reports
When the seed map, seed finder or another page hits an error, the page sends us a short report so we can fix it: the error message, where in our code it happened, the page address without the part after ?, which holds the seed and map settings, and which browser and system you use (such as Chrome 140 on Android). Long numbers such as seeds and coordinates are removed from the message before it is sent. We store reports grouped by error in a Cloudflare D1 database, without your IP address or full browser details, and delete each group 90 days after its last report. A page sends at most five reports, and a browser session at most twenty. Reporting uses no cookies; it keeps a count of reports sent in this tab's session storage as sl_error_reports.
Cloudflare hosts the site and processes ordinary request data, including IP addresses, to deliver and protect it. See Cloudflare's privacy policy. Fonts are served from this site, not a third party. Source links take you to other websites, which have their own privacy practices.
If we add advertising, user submissions or other analytics, or change how we use Google Analytics, we will update this page and ask for any further consent they require.
Questions about this policy or your data: contact@seedlookout.com.