Integritets- och Cookiepolicy

At OpenGames, we are deeply committed to protecting the privacy of our gaming community, readers, and registered users. This Privacy Policy transparently outlines what information we gather when you visit our gaming platform, how it is handled, with whom it may be shared, and your rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and applicable global data protection laws.

We may collect and process the following categories of data:

• User Account Details: When signing in via Google OAuth, we receive your public profile name, email address, and avatar. We never request or store financial credentials.
• Gamer Preferences: Preferred gaming platforms (PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch), followed topics, bookmarked articles, likes, and community comments.
• Technical & Browsing Data: Anonymized IP addresses, browser specifications, operating system, pages visited, and dwell time through standard analytical tools.
• Direct Communications: Information submitted voluntarily through our contact forms or confidential news tip mailboxes.

We use your information for legitimate purposes including:

• Personalizing your reading experience with video game news, guides, and reviews tailored to your preferred platforms.
• Generating and synchronizing neural audio narrations in your selected language.
• Ensuring platform security, server stability, and defense against unauthorized automated scraping.
• Facilitating interactive community tools such as reading lists and post reactions.
• Delivering relevant, non-intrusive advertising that keeps our gaming journalism completely free.

To sustain round-the-clock news coverage and keep OpenGames free for all gamers worldwide, we partner with reputable ad platforms including Google AdSense and certified programmatic networks.

These partners may use advertising cookies to deliver relevant advertisements based on your gaming interests. You can opt out of personalized ads at any time via Google Ad Settings or industry self-regulatory programs such as Your Online Choices.

Cookies are small text files placed on your device to remember preferences. OpenGames utilizes:

• Essential Cookies: Critical for session security, user login state, and language preservation.
• Analytics & Performance Cookies: Help us analyze site traffic and identify the most popular guides and reviews to improve editorial coverage.
• Advertising Cookies: Used by advertising partners to prevent excessive ad repetition and evaluate campaign performance.

You may adjust or disable cookie permissions at any time through your browser settings.

Under international privacy legislation, you have the right to:

• Access: Request a complete summary of your personal data stored on our systems.
• Rectification: Correct outdated or inaccurate account details.
• Erasure (Right to Be Forgotten): Request the permanent deletion of your profile and data.
• Restriction & Objection: Object to or limit specific processing activities.
• Data Portability: Receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.

To exercise your rights, contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected].

We employ 256-bit SSL/TLS encryption, robust perimeter firewalls, and strict access controls to prevent unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure of user data.

OpenGames is not directed at children under the age of 13 (or 16 in the EEA). We do not knowingly collect personal data from minors. If such data is discovered, it will be expunged immediately.

For privacy inquiries, GDPR requests, or data protection concerns, our team is accessible at: [email protected] or via our Direct Contact page.