Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect personal data through the playersengine.com landing page (the "Site"). It covers only the Site — the product at app.playersengine.com has its own separate privacy policy.

The data controller is Nic Vannetti, doing business as Players Engine, Italy. Contact: info@playersengine.com.

What we collect

When you submit the "Notify Me" or "Request Beta Access" form, we collect:

• Email address — the one you entered.
• Source label — which form you used (hero / CTA / modal), to understand signup channels.
• Timestamp — when you submitted.
• Hashed IP address — your IP is hashed (SHA-256) before storage so we can rate-limit abuse without retaining the original IP.
• User agent string — your browser identifier, truncated to 256 characters.

When you write to us through the Contact form or the creator form, we also collect what you enter: your name, email address and message and, on the creator form, the link to your channel and, if you give them, the platforms you create on, your audience size, your main games and the languages you create in — plus the time of your consent to be contacted, the timestamp, the hashed IP address and the user agent described above.

If you accept analytics cookies, Google Analytics 4 also collects pseudonymous usage data (pages viewed, click events, screen size, anonymised approximate location). See our Cookie Policy for the full list.

Why we collect it

• To send you a single confirmation email and, when the platform launches, the launch announcement (or, for beta requests, an invite code).
• To read and answer what you send through the Contact or creator form, and to follow up with creators about getting involved.
• To rate-limit signups and prevent abuse.
• To understand which marketing channels work (analytics, only with your consent).

Lawful basis: consent (for marketing emails, analytics and being contacted through the creator form) and legitimate interest (for answering messages you send us, rate-limiting and security).

Where it's stored

• Google Firestore, region eur3 (Belgium / Netherlands), under Google Cloud Platform. Google is a data processor.
• Resend (the transactional email service that delivers the confirmation email and forwards Contact and creator form messages to our inbox). Resend acts as a data processor. Their servers may be in the EU or the US.
• Google Analytics 4, only if you accept analytics cookies. Anonymised IP, processed by Google in the US.

Third-party provider notices

The product at app.playersengine.com (not this Site) lets players connect gaming accounts to power identity verification and profile showcases. Where a connected provider requires a public notice, it's reproduced here:

• Riot Games. PlayersEngine isn't endorsed by Riot Games and doesn't reflect the views or opinions of Riot Games or anyone officially involved in producing or managing Riot Games properties. We never store your Riot access tokens — the identity token Riot issues at sign-in is used once, to confirm who you are, and discarded immediately after.
• Steam. Steam data © Valve Corporation. Steam and the Steam logo are trademarks of Valve Corporation. Data linked from Steam is stored in the EU (Google Cloud Firestore, region eur3), per Steam's terms.
• Blizzard Entertainment (Battle.net). Battle.net data is provided by Blizzard Entertainment. Blizzard game names are trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
• Supercell. This content is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored, or specifically approved by Supercell, and Supercell is not responsible for it. See Supercell's Fan Content Policy.

The product's own privacy policy has the full data-handling detail for each connected provider, including what's stored, for how long, and how to disconnect.

How long we keep it

Your email and signup metadata are retained until launch (planned 2026–2027), after which they're either (a) used once to send the launch announcement and then deleted, or (b) deleted sooner if you ask us to.

If you click the unsubscribe link in any email, your email's hash is added to a suppression list and we don't email you again. The original signup record is purged on the next housekeeping pass.

Messages sent through the Contact or creator form are kept for up to 24 months after our last exchange, then deleted — or sooner if you ask us to.

Your rights (GDPR)

If you're in the EU / UK, you have the right to:

• Ask what data we hold about you.
• Ask for it to be corrected or deleted.
• Withdraw consent at any time (unsubscribe link or email us).
• Lodge a complaint with your local Data Protection Authority.

Reach us at info@playersengine.com. We aim to respond within 30 days.

Cookies and tracking

See the Cookie Policy for the full list, and click "Cookie settings" in the footer to change your consent at any time.

Advertising

The Site currently shows no advertising. We have applied to the Google AdSense programme; if and when ads are shown on the Site, Google, as a third-party vendor, will serve them and may use advertising cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. Our consent configuration defaults advertising storage to denied, in which case any ads served are non-personalized. You can learn how Google uses data from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and manage personalized advertising at adssettings.google.com.

Changes

If we materially change how we use your data, we'll update this page and the "Last updated" date. For users whose email we already hold, a notification email will go out before the change takes effect.