Last updated: July 30, 2026
This page explains exactly what Nethercon stores in your child's browser, why, and how to delete it. We have written it for parents, in plain English, and we have kept it honest rather than impressive: where something does exist at the network level, we say so instead of pretending the internet works by magic.
The one-line version: Nethercon sets no cookies at all. The game does save progress, but it saves it on your own device using a browser feature called localStorage, and none of it is ever sent to us. The game's own code on your device reads it to restore your progress, but no copy ever reaches our servers, so there is nothing for us to look up.
The short version
- No advertising cookies. There are no ads on Nethercon and no ad networks involved.
- No analytics cookies. We do not run Google Analytics or any other visitor-tracking tool.
- No third-party cookies. No site other than nethercon.com stores anything through our pages.
- No tracking pixels, no social media buttons, no fingerprinting.
- No cookies of our own, of any kind. Not even a "strictly necessary" one. If you open your browser's developer tools on any Nethercon page and look at the cookie list for nethercon.com, you will usually find it empty; a short-lived Cloudflare security cookie can appear there, and that one is described below.
- Game progress is saved on your device only, in first-party
localStorage, and none of it is ever sent to us. The game's own code on your device reads it to restore your progress, but no copy ever reaches our servers, so there is nothing for us to look up. - There is no cookie-consent banner, because there is nothing to consent to. We removed the one we used to have on July 30, 2026.
Cookies versus browser storage
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a website places in your browser. The important detail is that a cookie is automatically sent back to the website on every visit and often on every single page request. That round trip is what makes cookies useful for tracking people, and it is why the law treats them the way it does.
Cookies set by the site you are actually visiting are called first-party cookies. Cookies set by other companies whose code is embedded in the page (ad networks, analytics tools, social widgets) are called third-party cookies. Nethercon uses neither.
What localStorage is
localStorage is a different browser feature, and the difference matters. Data in localStorage stays on the device. It is never automatically sent to any server, it can only be read by pages on nethercon.com itself, and it does not travel with web requests the way a cookie does. In practical terms it works like a save file for a video game, kept on your own computer or tablet.
This is why we use it. Your child's quest progress, inventory, and badges live on your device and nowhere else, and none of it is ever sent to us. The game's own code on your device reads it to restore your progress, but no copy ever reaches our servers, so there is nothing for us to look up. There is no Nethercon account, no server-side player record, and nothing for us to hand over, lose, or sell.
Cookies Nethercon sets
None. Here is the full accounting:
| Type of cookie | Do we set it? | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Advertising and marketing | No | No ad networks, no retargeting, no affiliate tracking. |
| Analytics and measurement | No | No Google Analytics, no page-view tracking, no session recording. |
| Third-party | No | No third-party code runs in your browser on our pages. Some Google plugins remain installed on our WordPress backend, including Site Kit, but their browser-facing output is switched off and they load nothing onto the pages your child sees. |
| Functional or preference | No | Preferences are kept in localStorage, not in a cookie. |
| First-party, any purpose | No | Nethercon does not set HTTP cookies at all. |
An earlier version of this page listed two cookies named nc_consent and nc_theme. Neither is set by this site, and we found no evidence that either ever was — the listing appears to have been inaccurate. We corrected it on July 30, 2026.
Why the cookie banner disappeared
Nethercon used to display a third-party cookie-consent banner. We switched it off on July 30, 2026 and disabled the plugin behind it, for a simple reason: a site that sets no cookies has nothing to ask consent for. The banner was asking children to make a choice that did not exist, using generic wording about personalised advertising that had nothing to do with this site and did not belong in front of an eight-year-old.
If your child visited before that date, their browser may still be carrying a leftover consent record from that plugin, such as a cookieyes-consent cookie. We do not simply ignore those. Nethercon now actively expires them when a visitor arrives, so they clear themselves out on the next visit.
The network layer: Cloudflare
We want to be straight with you about the part we do not control. Nethercon sits behind Cloudflare, a service that delivers the site quickly and protects it from attacks and malicious bots. That is infrastructure, not marketing, and every site of this kind uses something similar.
Two things follow from that, and we would rather state them than quietly leave them out:
- Cloudflare may set its own bot-management cookie, typically named
__cf_bm. It is short-lived and exists to tell a real visitor apart from an automated attack. It is not ours, we do not read it, and it is not used for advertising or to build a profile of your child. - Cloudflare processes basic connection information, including the IP address a request comes from, because that is unavoidably how a web request reaches a server at all. It is used to deliver and defend the site.
That is the complete extent of it. There is no analytics product, no advertising identifier, and no data broker sitting behind Nethercon. Everything else described on this page is genuinely first-party and genuinely on your device.
What Nethercon saves on your device
Almost everything Nethercon stores begins with nethercon.v2. so you can identify it at a glance; one older item is named ncw.cine and is listed below too. All of it is ordinary game state. None of it contains a name, an email address, an age, a location, a photo, or anything else that identifies your child, because the site never asks for any of that in the first place.
The tables below describe the items we know about, and they are the ones you are most likely to see. We are not going to claim the list is exhaustive: the game changes, and a feature your child has not reached yet may add an item we have not got round to documenting. The reliable rule is the naming, not the list. Everything the site stores sits under the nethercon.v2. prefix apart from the single older ncw.cine item, so you can always identify what belongs to us, whether or not it appears below.
Player progress and inventory
| Item | What it remembers |
|---|---|
nethercon.v2.player | Core player state, such as level and in-game stats. |
nethercon.v2.inventory | Items the player is carrying. |
nethercon.v2.hotbarSlot | Which inventory slot is currently selected. |
nethercon.v2.badges | Achievement badges earned. |
nethercon.v2.events | A log of things the player has done. It is more than in-game milestones, so we want to be specific: alongside game events it records article_read entries, and each one carries the article's short name, its title, its category, its full web address, the time it was read from your device's clock, and how far down the page your child scrolled. In plain terms, this is a reading history of the site. It is kept so the game can award experience points for reading and not award them twice, and it stays on the device like everything else here. |
Reading and quiz progress
Nethercon rewards reading the articles on the site, and quizzes on what was read. Making that work fairly means the game has to remember what has already been read and roughly how long was spent on it, otherwise the same article could be re-read for points over and over. We would rather spell this out than file it under "game state", because it is the part of our storage that comes closest to watching what your child does.
The first item below we have confirmed directly in a browser. The rest appear in the code we deploy, and we are listing them so you know they exist, but we have not verified each exact name in a live session and the spelling may differ slightly from what your browser shows. Anything of this kind will still begin with nethercon.v2..
| Item | What it remembers |
|---|---|
nethercon.v2.articlesRead | Which articles have already been read, so the same one is not rewarded twice. |
nethercon.v2.articleTimeXp, with one entry per article and day | Roughly how long was spent reading a particular article on a particular day. It exists to cap how many experience points can be earned from reading in a single day. |
nethercon.v2.quizStats | Quiz results, such as how many have been attempted and answered correctly. |
nethercon.v2.questCondMet, with one entry per quest condition | Which individual conditions of a quest have already been satisfied, so partly finished quests are not reset. |
nethercon.v2.installPromptDismissed | Whether the prompt offering to install the site as an app was dismissed, so it is not shown again. |
nethercon.v2.iosHintDismissed | Whether the equivalent hint shown on iPhones and iPads was dismissed. |
Quests
| Item | What it remembers |
|---|---|
nethercon.v2.questsActive | Quests currently in progress. |
nethercon.v2.questsCompleted | Quests the player has finished. |
nethercon.v2.welcomeQuests | Progress through the introductory starter quests. |
World and exploration
| Item | What it remembers |
|---|---|
nethercon.v2.lastBiome | The last area of the world the player was in. |
nethercon.v2.biomesVisited | Which areas have been visited. |
nethercon.v2.biomeHintSeen | Whether the intro hint for a given area has already been shown, so it is not repeated. One entry per area. |
nethercon.v2.bestiaryDiscovered | Which creatures the player has discovered. |
nethercon.v2.world.found | Whether the hidden world has been found. |
nethercon.v2.world.visited | Whether the world has been entered. |
nethercon.v2.world.firstAt | When the world was first entered, using your device's own clock. |
nethercon.v2.world.finaleAt | When the finale was reached, using your device's own clock. |
nethercon.v2.world.lastLoc | The last position inside the game world, so the player resumes where they stopped. |
nethercon.v2.firstBiomeAfterOnboarding | The first area entered after the intro, used to pace what the game shows next. |
Intro and tutorial
| Item | What it remembers |
|---|---|
nethercon.v2.hasEntered | Whether this device has entered the game hub before. |
nethercon.v2.onboardingCompleted | Whether the intro walkthrough was finished. |
nethercon.v2.onboardingSkipped | Whether the intro walkthrough was skipped. |
nethercon.v2.playTutorialSeen | Whether the play tutorial has been shown. |
Save slots
| Item | What it remembers |
|---|---|
nethercon.v2.lastProfileId | Which local save slot was last used. This is a slot number on your device, not an account with us. |
nethercon.v2.profile | The saved game state for each local slot. One entry per slot. |
Daily streaks
| Item | What it remembers |
|---|---|
nethercon.v2.lastLoginDate | The date of the last visit, so a daily-reward streak can be counted. The date only, taken from your device. |
nethercon.v2.dailyClaimedDate | The date the daily reward was last claimed. |
Settings
| Item | What it remembers |
|---|---|
nethercon.v2.settings | Preferences such as audio, display, reading mode, and control options. |
nethercon.v2.chatQuiet | Whether in-game messages and notifications are muted. |
nethercon.v2.bedtime.played | Whether a bedtime-story episode has already been played. |
Things that last only until the tab is closed
A small number of items use sessionStorage rather than localStorage. These behave the same way, except your browser throws them away as soon as the tab is closed. They exist so the site does not repeat itself within a single sitting.
| Item | What it remembers |
|---|---|
ncw.cine | Whether the opening cinematic has already played in this session, so it is not replayed every time a page loads. |
nethercon.v2.resumeDismissed | Whether the "resume where you left off" prompt was dismissed in this session. |
Why all of it is necessary
Every item above exists to deliver the thing the visitor actually came for: playing the game and having their own progress still be there tomorrow. Remove them and the save-and-resume feature simply stops working. None of it is used to profile your child or to build any advertising or cross-site record. Some of it does record what your child read and how long they spent, purely so the game can award experience points fairly — and all of it stays on the device it was written on and is never sent to us.
Third-party content and trackers
There are none. Nethercon's fonts and all of its JavaScript are now hosted on nethercon.com itself, so loading a page does not quietly announce your child's visit to a font provider, a script CDN, or anyone else.
We do not embed social media share buttons, advertising pixels, retargeting scripts, comment widgets, or third-party video players. Those are the usual routes by which third-party cookies arrive on a website, and we have deliberately avoided all of them.
If you follow an ordinary outbound link from Nethercon to some other website, that website is its own operator and may set its own cookies. We have no control over that, and we would encourage you to read the privacy policy of any site you visit.
Why there is no consent banner
In the EU and the UK, the rules on cookies and browser storage require a website to ask permission before storing anything on your device, with one exception: storage that is strictly necessary to provide the service the visitor actually asked for. Saving your progress in a game you chose to play is, in our assessment, within that exception.
Nethercon relies on that exception and nothing else:
- We set no advertising, analytics, or personalisation storage of any kind.
- We set no third-party storage of any kind.
- The only storage we use is first-party, on your device, and needed to run the game.
- We set no cookies at all, so there is no cookie for anyone to consent to.
Regulators treat localStorage the same way they treat cookies when deciding whether consent is needed, so we have applied the same test to it, and we believe it is met for the same reason. A banner would add a click and a scary-sounding paragraph without protecting anyone from anything.
If Nethercon ever introduces analytics, advertising, or any other non-essential storage, we will put a proper consent mechanism in place before doing so and update this page first.
How to inspect, clear, or block this data
Look at it yourself
You do not have to take our word for any of this. On a desktop browser, open Nethercon, press F12 to open developer tools, and go to the Application tab. Under Cookies you will usually find nothing listed for nethercon.com. If you see a short-lived entry set by Cloudflare, that is the security cookie described above, not ours. Under Local Storage you will find the items described above.
Clear it
Clearing site data for nethercon.com in your browser settings deletes everything on this page in one step.
- Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies → See all site data and permissions
- Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data → Manage Data
- Safari: Settings or Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
- Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data
You can also delete individual entries from the Local Storage panel in developer tools if you would rather be surgical about it.
One important warning before you do. Because your child's device is the only place their progress is stored, clearing site data for nethercon.com erases every quest, badge, item, and setting permanently. We hold no backup and there is no account to restore from, so we cannot recover it and neither can you. That is the direct trade-off for a game that keeps nothing about your child on our servers, and we would rather you knew it up front than found out afterwards. It is worth mentioning to your child before you clear it.
Block it
Every major browser can block storage for a specific site. Blocking it for nethercon.com is fine and nothing breaks in a harmful way, but the game will forget everything between visits and start fresh each time.
Changes to this policy
If we ever add a cookie, add analytics, or change what we store on your device, we will update this page and change the "Last updated" date at the top. Anything material will be flagged on the site rather than slipped in quietly.
Who we are and how to reach us
Nethercon is operated by BRICK30 TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, 3120 Viking Blvd NE, East Bethel, MN 55092, United States.
Questions about cookies, browser storage, or anything else on this page go to a real person at [email protected]. If you think anything stated here is inaccurate, please tell us and we will check it and correct the page.
NOT AN OFFICIAL MINECRAFT PRODUCT. NOT APPROVED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH MOJANG OR MICROSOFT.