About · Privacy
Privacy notice
What this site collects, why we keep it and how to have it removed. Last updated 6 November 2026.
Reading the site
Every page can be read without an account. We measure visits with Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity and Cloudflare Web Analytics, which tell us which pages are read, roughly where readers are and, in Clarity’s case, how people scroll and click on a page. Those services set their own cookies or similar identifiers and handle the data under their own policies.
The newsletter
When you sign up for the newsletter or a launch alert, we store your email address, the form you used, the time, the country Cloudflare reports for your connection and your browser’s user-agent string, and we receive an email telling us someone signed up. We use the address to send the newsletter or the alert you signed up for, and nothing else. To stop, email mark@garbagepail.kids and we will delete it.
Your HERO80 account
Signing in uses the HERO80 account shared by the network’s fan sites, run on forums.thundercats.org. When you sign in here, that service sends us your account ID, username, display name, avatar and email address, and we keep them in a member record so that your member features are tied to your account. While you are signed in, a cookie holds a random session ID and nothing else.
Your toy shelf and photos
The toys you add, the details you record about them and any photos you upload are stored with your member record. Profiles, shelves and photos are public unless you make them private, and each photo has its own setting. Other visitors can see whatever is public without signing in.
The forum
Posts on forums.garbagepail.kids are public. The forum software keeps your posts and your account activity there.
Contributions
If you email us a contribution, we keep the message and its attachments so that we can credit you and follow up. We publish a contribution only with your permission and with credit.
Links to shops
Links to retailers take you to their own sites, which have their own privacy policies.
Having your data removed
Email mark@garbagepail.kids and say what you want removed: your newsletter signup, your member record, or a contribution. For a member record, write from the address on your account. We will remove it and confirm by reply. Forum posts live on forums.garbagepail.kids and the HERO80 account on forums.thundercats.org; ask us and we will pass the request on.