Privacy Policy

Who this policy applies to

This Privacy Policy applies to people who browse Game Release Radar, create or use an account, interact with support or privacy workflows, or receive product emails connected to the service.

It covers personal data processed through the website, account and authentication features, saved-radar and followed-game features, security protections, and related service operations.

Personal data we may collect

Depending on how you use the service, Game Release Radar may process account information such as your name, email address, hashed or password-derived authentication data, account verification state, and authenticated session information.

If you use My Page or My Radars, Game Release Radar may process your saved radar settings, followed games, per-game release-date alert choices, selected platforms, genres, and languages, release-period choices, review-rating preferences, notification frequency, maximum-game settings, and related account preferences tied to your profile.

Game Release Radar may also process technical and security-related data such as IP-related request context, bot-protection results, failed sign-in attempts, lockout events, throttle events, abuse-prevention outcomes, and structured security-event metadata used to protect the service without intentionally logging raw passwords or similar secrets.

The frontend may also store limited browser-side display or preference helpers, separate from server-side session authorization, where needed to preserve parts of the user experience in the browser.

How we collect personal data

Most personal data is collected directly from you when you create an account, sign in, manage account settings, save radar preferences, follow a game or change its alert setting, request a test email, contact support, or otherwise interact with the service.

Some technical and security-related information is collected automatically through normal operation of the website, authentication system, session handling, abuse-prevention controls, server logs, and related infrastructure used to run and secure the service.

Why we use personal data

Game Release Radar uses personal data to create and maintain accounts, verify email ownership, authenticate users, provide signed-in features, save radar and followed-game preferences, send account, radar, and requested per-game release-date emails, respond to support or privacy requests, and operate the service reliably.

Personal data is also used to protect the platform, users, email reputation, and infrastructure from spam, bot traffic, credential attacks, abuse of account flows, misuse of outbound email features, and other harmful or fraudulent activity.

Local recently viewed games and comparison

Opening game details stores a display snapshot and viewing time for up to 20 recent games in this browser for 30 days. You can remove entries or clear viewed history. Comparison stores up to four selected display snapshots in this tab’s session storage and survives reloads. Neither collection is uploaded, included in analytics events, or merged into an account. Opening a saved game uses the normal catalog request to show current details.

These local discovery controls do not enable analytics or advertising or change your consent preferences. If browser storage is unavailable, changes last only while the page remains open.

Consent choices for optional technologies

Game Release Radar separates browser-side technologies into essential, analytics, and advertising categories. Essential technologies support core site operation, authentication, security, abuse prevention, and consent-preference storage, and they remain active because the service cannot provide those functions safely without them.

Analytics and advertising categories are optional. They stay off unless the visitor grants the relevant consent category through the Cookie Settings controls, and withdrawing a category prevents future loading or use of that optional category where technically feasible in the current browser session.

Google Analytics 4 is the selected analytics provider for audience measurement after analytics consent. It is configured through the consent-gated analytics loader and receives sanitized page paths plus coarse product events such as signup success, login success, saved-radar creation, calendar-link actions, test-email sends, and account deletion without sending saved game preference details, calendar URLs, feed tokens, or subscription identifiers.

Google AdSense is the selected future advertising provider, and Google Privacy & messaging is the selected Google-certified consent management platform for the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework path required for EEA, UK, and Swiss ad traffic. Ad placements remain disabled until the consent-gated ad loader is complete and verified. The homepage can load Google’s AdSense ownership-verification script before an optional consent choice. This sends a request to Google containing connection and browser information, such as your IP address; it is separate from enabling ad placements. Google advertising and analytics consent signals default to denied.

Legal bases for processing

Where applicable law requires a legal basis, Game Release Radar generally processes personal data because it is necessary to provide the service requested by the user, to take steps at the user’s request before providing account-related functionality, to comply with legal obligations, to pursue legitimate interests in operating, securing, and improving the service, or because the user has given consent for optional browser-side analytics or advertising categories.

Where legitimate interests are relied on, those interests generally include account security, fraud and abuse prevention, service integrity, operational troubleshooting, and responsible delivery of requested account or notification functionality. Where consent is relied on for optional analytics or advertising, that consent can be changed through Cookie Settings.

Sharing and service providers

Game Release Radar may use third-party providers to support hosting, application delivery, database operations, email delivery, bot protection, logging, observability, infrastructure monitoring, privacy-aware analytics, and related operational needs.

These providers process data on behalf of or in support of Game Release Radar where needed to run the service. Data may also be disclosed where reasonably necessary to comply with law, enforce terms, investigate abuse, protect rights or safety, or support a legitimate business or operational transition affecting the service.

Data retention

Game Release Radar keeps personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, maintain account functionality, operate saved-radar, followed-game, and notification features, meet security and audit needs, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and comply with legal obligations.

Users may be able to delete their account through the product. Even after deletion, limited records may be retained for security, fraud prevention, abuse investigation, legal compliance, backup integrity, or operational continuity where retention is reasonably necessary and proportionate.

International transfers and storage

Game Release Radar is operated from Sweden, but may use infrastructure or service providers located in Sweden, elsewhere in the EU/EEA, or in other countries, which means personal data may be processed or stored outside the user’s home jurisdiction.

Where personal data is transferred outside the EU/EEA, Game Release Radar aims to use providers and operational arrangements that are appropriate for the service and reasonably aligned with applicable EU privacy obligations, such as adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses, or equivalent safeguards where required. Google Analytics should be configured with the retention, consent-mode, and processing settings chosen by the operator before production analytics is enabled.

Your rights and choices

Depending on your location, you may have rights relating to access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, complaint, or portability in relation to personal data processed by Game Release Radar.

Some account information can be updated directly through the product, and account deletion may be available through the signed-in account flow. Other privacy-related requests are currently handled through a manual operator workflow, and Game Release Radar may ask for reasonable identity verification before completing a request that affects account-specific information or personal data.

Cookies, local storage, and related technologies

Game Release Radar uses browser-side technologies such as essential session controls and limited local storage to support authentication, signed-in experience behavior, security functionality, and consent-preference storage for optional categories.

Visitors can revisit optional analytics and advertising choices through the Cookie Settings link in the site footer. For more information about browser-side technologies used by the service, please review the Cookie Information page.

Children

Game Release Radar is not intended for children who are too young to use the service lawfully under applicable rules, and the service is not knowingly designed to solicit personal data from children.

If you believe personal data has been submitted inappropriately through the service, contact Game Release Radar using the published public contact route.

Changes to this policy and contact details

Game Release Radar may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect product changes, legal developments, or operational changes. The version published on the site is the version that applies at the time of use unless otherwise required by law.

Privacy questions or requests can be sent to contact@gamereleaseradar.com.