Privacy policy

This policy applies to https://www.gametrendex.com and the public pages operated under the GameTrendex name. “GameTrendex,” “we,” and “our” refer to this independent publication. Privacy questions and rights requests can be sent to privacy@gametrendex.com.

Google may process information when its advertising services are present. The link below is Google’s prominent first-party explanation of how it uses information from partner properties.

When you request a page, hosting and security infrastructure necessarily receives technical request data such as IP address, user agent, requested URL, timestamps, and diagnostic information. We use this data to deliver, secure, debug, and maintain the site.

Vercel Web Analytics reports aggregated page views, referrers, approximate region, browser, operating system, and device class without third-party analytics cookies. Vercel Speed Insights receives real-user performance measurements such as load and interaction timing.

Google Analytics 4 measures page use and acquisition. In regions covered by Google’s EU User Consent Policy, Consent Mode v2 defaults advertising and analytics storage to denied until the certified Google consent message communicates the visitor’s choice. With storage denied, Google may receive consent state and cookieless measurement signals rather than writing Analytics cookies.

If Google AdSense is enabled, Google and approved advertising partners may place or read cookies, use web beacons, receive IP addresses, or use other identifiers to deliver, limit, personalize, measure, and protect advertising, depending on your region and choices.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a person’s prior visits to GameTrendex or other websites. Google’s advertising cookies allow Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

Other third-party vendors or ad networks may also serve ads if allowed in our AdSense settings. The active vendor list and available purposes are presented through the consent message where required. Users can opt out of personalized Google advertising in My Ad Center.

We process technical data to provide and secure the site, understand aggregate performance, prevent abuse, comply with law, and respond to messages. Depending on local law, the basis may be performance of a requested service, legitimate interests, legal obligations, or consent.

Where consent is required for advertising cookies, local storage, measurement, or personalization, we ask before using those technologies for the relevant purpose. Declining personalized ads does not necessarily make every ad or measurement technology disappear; limited or non-personalized advertising may still operate where permitted and appropriately consented.

For users in the EEA, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, GameTrendex uses a Google-certified consent management platform integrated with the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework when serving personalized advertising. The message records eligible choices and provides a route to revoke them.

For supported US state privacy regimes, the privacy message can present a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” choice and communicate supported opt-out signals. You can reopen available controls with the button on this page or the persistent footer link.

We share data only as needed with infrastructure, security, analytics, advertising, and communications providers; to complete a request you initiate; during a legitimate business transfer; or when required to protect rights and comply with law.

Retention varies by system and purpose. Vercel documents that its Web Analytics visitor hash is not used to track people across sites and is discarded after 24 hours. Email correspondence is kept only as long as reasonably needed for the request, recordkeeping, security, or legal obligations. Advertising providers apply their own disclosed retention periods.

Providers may process information in countries other than your own and use contractual or statutory transfer mechanisms where required.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or obtain a copy of personal information, withdraw consent, or appeal a privacy decision. Send requests to privacy@gametrendex.com. We may need limited information to verify and complete a request.

You may also complain to the data protection or consumer privacy authority with jurisdiction over you. We will not discriminate against you for exercising applicable privacy rights.

GameTrendex is a general-audience gaming information service and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 or use known under-13 activity for personalized advertising. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us so we can investigate and delete it where appropriate.

We use proportionate technical and organizational safeguards, but no Internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.

We update this policy when data practices, providers, or legal requirements materially change. The date at the top identifies the current version. Material changes may also receive a more prominent notice.