Privacy notice

The short version

We collect three categories of data: your email address if you subscribe to the newsletter, basic technical information when you load a page (browser, country, page viewed), and whatever you send us when you write in through the contact form. We don't sell any of it. We don't share it with third parties for advertising. We don't run programmatic ads on the site.

Who we are

PixelStronghold Editorial is an independent gaming publication. For the purposes of UK and EU data protection law, the data controller is PixelStronghold Editorial Ltd., registered at the address listed at the bottom of this page. If you'd rather not read the rest of this document, you can email [email protected] and we'll answer specific questions directly.

What we collect, and why

Newsletter subscribers

If you subscribe to our Friday brief, we store your email address, the date you subscribed, and which tier you're on (free or paid). For paid subscribers we also store a customer reference from our payment processor — we never see or store your card details ourselves. We use this information to send you the newsletter, to handle billing, and (rarely) to email you about substantial changes to the publication. We don't use it to send marketing emails for other products, because we don't have other products.

Site visitors

When you load any page on this site, our server records the page URL, the rough country your request came from (derived from your IP address and then discarded), your browser type, and the time of the request. We use these records to understand which articles are being read and to detect abuse (scraping, denial-of-service attempts, that sort of thing). The raw access logs are deleted after 30 days.

People who contact us

If you write to us through the contact form, or to one of our desk addresses, we store the email and our reply in our editorial inbox indefinitely (or until you ask us to delete it). News tips submitted to tips@ are handled with additional care: we honour source confidentiality, and we'll discuss off-the-record requests before publication.

What we don't collect

• We don't run advertising trackers. There is no Google Analytics, no Meta Pixel, no LinkedIn Insight, no programmatic ad SDK on this site.
• We don't fingerprint your browser.
• We don't build behavioural profiles of readers.
• We don't pass any data to data brokers, ever.
• We don't track you across other websites.

Cookies

The site uses a small number of first-party cookies, none of which are used for advertising. The full list and what each one does is on our Cookies page.

How we share data

We use a handful of third-party services to run the site. They each receive the minimum data needed to do their job:

• Our email service provider stores subscriber emails so it can send the newsletter on our behalf. It's a European provider; it's bound by a data-processing agreement; it doesn't use subscriber data for any other purpose.
• Our payment processor handles paid subscriptions. They see what they need to see in order to take payment legally; we see only a customer reference.
• Our hosting provider stores the site files and serves the pages. They keep the raw access logs we mentioned above.

We don't share data with anyone else. We don't sell data. We don't trade data. We have never received a government data request; if we did, we'd disclose it in the next Friday brief unless legally prohibited from doing so.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you have some or all of the following rights:

• The right to a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• The right to ask us to correct anything inaccurate.
• The right to ask us to delete your data (we will, unless we have to keep it for a legal reason — for example, tax records).
• The right to opt out of any specific use we make of your data.
• The right to complain to your local data protection authority.

To exercise any of these rights, email [email protected]. We aim to respond within seven working days.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 16, and we don't knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has subscribed or contacted us, please write to us and we'll delete the data.

Changes to this notice

If we change this notice, we update the "Last updated" date at the top of the page and, if the change is substantive, we mention it in the Friday brief. We don't quietly rewrite privacy policies.

Get in touch

Anything you want to ask, write to [email protected]. We read every email.