Privacy policy

Last updated 4 November 2026.

Live Again CS is a free fan site for watching CS2 tournament videos without spoilers. This page explains what the site keeps about you, which other services get information when you use it, and what you can do about it.

The short version

• There are no accounts, no ads and no tracking cookies. We don’t sell or share anything about you.
• What you’ve watched and your settings stay in your own browser.
• Videos play in YouTube’s player, so YouTube (Google) gets the usual information about your visit, under the Google Privacy Policy.
• We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and doesn’t follow you from site to site.

What’s kept in your browser

The site saves a few things in your browser’s local storage so it works the way you left it. They never leave your device unless you turn on syncing (below), and we can’t see them:

• the matches you’ve marked as watched, where you stopped in a map, Continue watching, your pins, and the rounds and results you chose to open;
• your settings: light or dark theme, volume, speed, captions, quality, player size and which panel is open;
• the name you pick for watch parties, your star ratings, your sync code if you use one, and the random sign-in key used for ratings.

The site itself sets no cookies. You can remove all of this at any time by clearing the site’s data in your browser’s settings.

YouTube

Live Again CS uses YouTube API Services. Every video on the site is played in YouTube’s embedded player, straight from YouTube. When a match page loads the player, YouTube (a Google service) receives information such as your IP address, your browser and device, and which video is playing, and it may place or read cookies and similar data on your device. If you’re signed in to YouTube, it may link this to your account. That information goes to Google, not to us, and Google uses it as described in the Google Privacy Policy and the YouTube Terms of Service.

To find videos, our publishing system also uses the YouTube Data API to check that each video can be played on other sites. That check is about the videos, not about you. We never ask you to sign in with Google and we can’t see or change anything in your YouTube or Google account.

Star ratings and device sync

Ratings and syncing are kept in a Google Firebase Realtime Database. When you rate a match, your browser gets an anonymous Firebase sign-in: a random ID, with no name, email or account. Your rating is saved under that ID so there’s one vote per browser, and everyone sees the average.

If you choose “Sync my devices”, your watched list, pins, Continue watching, map positions and opened rounds are saved in the same database under a random sync code, so your other devices can fetch them. Anyone with the code can read that list, so share it only with your own devices. “Stop syncing” stops this device sending updates; to have the stored copy deleted, email [email protected] with your sync code.

Google processes this data for us under the Google Privacy Policy and its Firebase privacy terms, and sees your IP address when your browser connects. You can hide ratings from the footer and never use syncing; the rest of the site works the same.

Watch parties

A watch party connects your browser directly to your friends’ browsers (WebRTC). Public Nostr relay servers only help the browsers find each other; the party code locks what passes through them. Because the connection is direct, the people in your party can see each other’s IP addresses, as with most video calls. The party name you choose, the chat and play and pause go straight to the others in the party. We don’t store any of it, and it’s gone when everyone leaves.

Visitor statistics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count how many people visit and which pages they open, so we can show sponsors how much the site is used. It sets no cookies, saves nothing in your browser and doesn’t build a profile of you or follow you across sites. It records things like the page, the site you came from, your country (worked out from your IP address, which Cloudflare says it doesn’t store), your browser and device type and how fast the page loaded. The numbers we see are totals. Cloudflare handles this under its privacy policy.

Hosting and fonts

The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. Like any web host, GitHub receives your IP address when your browser loads the site and may keep it in its logs for security, under the GitHub Privacy Statement. The site’s fonts come from Google Fonts, so Google receives your IP address when the fonts load. Links to other sites, such as Liquipedia or Google Calendar, only send you there when you click them.

What we don’t do

We don’t run ads, sell or rent data, build profiles, use tracking pixels or send newsletters. We don’t knowingly collect information from children under 13, and the site isn’t aimed at them.

Your choices and rights

Almost everything is in your own browser, so you’re in control of it: clear the site’s data to remove it. Depending on where you live (for example the EU, UK or California), you can ask us what we hold about you, and to correct or delete it. Because there are no accounts, we can only find ratings or synced data if you give us your sync code or the details of what to look for. To make a request, email [email protected]. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Changes

If the site starts keeping or sharing anything new, we’ll update this page and the date at the top first.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email [email protected].