Privacy

The first time you vote, R6Guide generates a random identifier and stores it in a cookie named r6g_vid. The value is a random number. It is not derived from anything about you, your device or your network, and it is not shared with anyone.

The cookie is httpOnly (JavaScript on the page cannot read it), SameSite=Lax, and marked Secure in production. It expires after one year.

What gets stored in the database is not the cookie itself, but a keyed hash of it. That hash is what lets the site recognise your vote so you can replace it — and it is why nobody reading the database can work backwards to your cookie.

Clearing the cookie makes you a new anonymous voter. Your previous votes stay in the totals but you can no longer replace them.

Each stored vote contains:

• The operator and the patch you voted on.
• The complete loadout you chose.
• The hashed identifier described above.
• Any optional metadata you chose to provide — rank, platform, queue type and mode. All four are optional, none is verified, and leaving them blank does not affect whether your vote counts.
• The time the vote was created and last changed.

No free text is ever accepted. Every field is a choice from a fixed list validated on the server, so a vote cannot carry a message, a name, or anything identifying.

To stop a single source from flooding the results, the server keeps a short-lived counter keyed on a hash of the requesting IP address. The raw IP address is hashed as soon as it is read; it is not written to the database and not written to logs.

These counters live in memory and expire within minutes. Raw IP addresses are not retained beyond the moment the request is handled.

R6Guide does not fingerprint devices. There is no canvas hashing, no font or hardware probing, and no cross-site identifier.

Rank, platform, queue type and mode are self-reported and unverified. R6Guide does not connect to Ubisoft’s services and has no way to confirm any of it. Filtered results are described as self-reported everywhere they appear.

When something fails, the server records what went wrong — for example that a vote could not be written — without the request’s IP address or cookie value. Errors shown to you are deliberately generic and never expose internal detail.

R6Guide has not completed any formal privacy certification or audit, and does not claim compliance with any specific framework. This page describes what the software actually does. R6Guide is an unofficial fan-made website and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ubisoft Entertainment.