EgoGamer (“we”, “us”) publishes game guides and wikis at egogamer.com. This policy explains what information we collect when you visit the site, how we use it, and the choices you have. Reading EgoGamer does not require an account, and we never ask readers for personal details.
Information we collect
Information collected automatically. Like most websites, our servers and the services in front of them keep standard technical logs when you visit: your IP address, browser type and version, the pages you request, the referring page, and timestamps. We use these logs to operate the site, debug problems, and protect it against abuse. Our infrastructure providers — Amazon Web Services (hosting) and Cloudflare (content delivery and security) — process this data on our behalf.
Information you send us. If you contact us, we receive whatever you include in your message (such as your email address) and use it only to respond. Contributor accounts on the editorial side of the site are created by us for staff and store an email address and password; they are not open to readers.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how the site is used — which pages are read, roughly where visitors come from, and how they found us. Google Analytics collects this using cookies and similar identifiers and processes it on Google’s servers; on EgoGamer, these measurement requests are loaded through a first-party path on our own domain before being forwarded to Google. You can learn how Google uses this data at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services, and you can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
Advertising
Advertising on EgoGamer, where it appears, is served by Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites, and may also use web beacons, IP addresses, and similar technologies to serve and measure ads. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
- You may opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info (or, in the European Union, www.youronlinechoices.com).
If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we will not show you personalized ads without first asking for your consent, and you will be able to revisit and change that choice at any time.
Cookies
Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. We use them in a few ways: strictly necessary cookies that sign our editorial staff in to the content-management tools (these are only set when someone logs in), analytics cookies set by Google Analytics as described above, and advertising cookies set, where advertising appears, by Google and its partners as described above. Platforms whose embedded content appears in a guide may also set their own cookies — see Embedded content below. You can block or delete cookies in your browser’s settings at any time; the site remains fully readable without them.
Embedded content
Some guides embed content hosted by other platforms — for example YouTube videos (loaded through YouTube’s privacy-enhanced player) and posts from X (Twitter). When a page contains such an embed, your browser connects to that platform to display it, which shares your IP address and browser details with the platform and may allow it to set its own cookies. Their handling of that data is described in Google’s privacy policy (YouTube) and X’s privacy policy.
How we share information
We do not sell personal information. Data is shared with the service providers named above — Google (analytics and advertising), Cloudflare, and Amazon Web Services — who process it to provide their services; with the platforms whose embedded content you view, as described above; and with authorities where the law requires us to.
Data retention and international transfers
Technical logs on the servers we control are automatically deleted within about 90 days; Cloudflare retains the request logs it processes at its edge under its own retention policy. Analytics data is retained according to Google Analytics’ retention settings. Because our servers are located in Singapore and our service providers operate globally, your information may be processed in countries other than your own, including the United States.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, or delete personal information we hold about you, to object to or restrict its processing, or to complain to your local data protection authority. California residents may additionally exercise their rights under the CCPA/CPRA — including, where personal information is shared for cross-context behavioral advertising, opting out of that sharing through the advertising opt-outs listed above. To make a request, contact us using the address below.
Children
EgoGamer is a general-audience site and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children; if you believe a child has provided us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Security and third-party links
The site is served over HTTPS and we take reasonable measures to protect the information we handle. Our guides may link to external websites; their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not this one.
Changes to this policy
When we change this policy we will post the updated version on this page and revise the “Last updated” date above.
Contact
Questions or requests about this policy can be sent to [email protected].