Privacy

What GAEM keeps

• Your account: your email address. When you sign in with Google, Google also shares your name and profile picture; they're stored with your login but GAEM doesn't show them anywhere.
• What you enter: your username, the games in your library with their status, platform, scores, hours, dates, reviews, favorite and private marks, your lists (with who can see each one), and your profile (banner, bio, sections, whether you share your Wrapped).
• Your profile picture, if you upload one: GAEM keeps only the square you crop, shrunk to a small picture. Anything hidden inside the photo (like where it was taken or which phone took it) is removed before it's stored. Removing it, or deleting your account, deletes it.
• Steam, if you connect it: your Steam ID (a number), so imports skip the sign-in. Your Steam game list is read from Steam when you open the import page and isn't kept, except the games you choose to import. Disconnect forgets the Steam ID.
• Your friends: the friend requests you send and receive, and who you're friends with.
• The waitlist: when GAEM is full, a new account waits until the admin lets it in. While it waits, GAEM only has what Google shared at sign-in and the time it joined the line. Leave the waitlist deletes it.
• Blocked accounts: if the admin blocks an account (for spam or abuse), its email is kept on a block list so it can't sign up again, even after the account is deleted. A blocked account can't log in and is hidden from everyone else; its data stays until it's unblocked or deleted.

Who can see it

• Friends (people whose friend request you accepted, or who accepted yours) can see your profile, library, scores, reviews and stats, except games you've marked private. They see your Wrapped only if you turn on sharing it.
• Other people with a GAEM account can only see your username, your profile picture and the lists you share with anyone on GAEM, and send you a friend request. Profile pictures are stored at long, random web addresses: they don't show up anywhere without a login, but someone who has a picture's exact address could open it.
• GAEMers' ratings: every score you give, private games included, is added without your name to the average score each game shows to everyone on GAEM. An average only appears once at least 5 people have scored that game, so nobody can work out your score from it.
• Global charts: the same scores, again without your name, make up the Feed's Top rated, Most rated and Worst rated games of the day, week and month. An average only appears once at least 3 people have scored that game in that time.
• GAEM's admin (the person who runs GAEM) can look up an account to help with requests, like deleting it: its email, username, how it logs in, when it signed up and last logged in, and how many games, friends, lists and posts it has. Never your reviews, scores or which games you have. The admin can also remove a profile picture that breaks the rules.
• Nobody else. There are no public profiles: every page with your games needs a login, so search engines can't see them. Your email address is never shown to other people.
• Games you mark private are only ever visible to you (their scores only count, without your name, in GAEMers' ratings and the Global charts).

What GAEM doesn't do

No ads, no tracking, no analytics, and your data is never sold or shared for marketing. The only cookies are the ones that keep you logged in, and one that remembers which announcements you closed.

Where it's stored

• Supabase stores the database and handles logins, on servers in the United States (Washington, D.C. area).
• Vercel runs the app, also in the United States, and keeps standard request logs (such as IP addresses) for a short time.
• IGDB (owned by Twitch) provides game titles, covers and details. GAEM asks it for game information only, never anything about you, but cover art loads from IGDB's image servers, which see your IP address like any website would.
• Google handles the sign-in when you choose Continue with Google.
• Sentry receives a report when something in GAEM crashes, so it can be fixed: what went wrong, on which page, and the browser and device type. GAEM turns off everything else Sentry could collect, so the reports carry no name, email, cookies or games.
• Steam (Valve) handles “Sign in through Steam” when you import from Steam, and tells GAEM your public Steam name, picture and game list. GAEM never sees your Steam password.

Deleting your account

You can delete any game, review or score yourself at any time. To delete your whole account, open the account menu (your initial, top right) and choose Delete account. Your account, library, profile, friendships, posts, reactions and profile picture are then deleted for good, right away. Can't log in? Email gaem.platform@gmail.com from the address you use with GAEM and we'll delete it for you.

Questions

Write to gaem.platform@gmail.com. If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too.