Privacy Policy

At Gameologist, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. This policy outlines our practices concerning data and cookies on our website.

Information Collection

We do not directly collect personal information from our users. However, we use third-party services that may collect data to improve our site's functionality and user experience:

  • Google Analytics
  • Google AdSense
  • Vercel Analytics
  • Speed Insights
  • Microsoft Clarity

These services may collect information such as IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, referring website, mouse movements, clicks, scrolling behavior, and keyboard inputs.

Use of Information

The collected information is used to analyze site traffic, serve relevant advertisements, improve our website's performance, and understand user behavior patterns.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. While we don't directly use cookies, our third-party service providers may use cookies and similar tracking technologies.

Types of Cookies We Use

  • Essential website cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features.
  • Analytics and performance cookies: These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our Website and how users use our Website.
  • Session recording cookies: These cookies are used by Microsoft Clarity to record user sessions for website optimization purposes.
  • Advertising cookies: In the future, we may use these cookies to make advertising messages more relevant to you.

How to Control Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences through your browser settings. However, please note that if you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website, but your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted.

Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services that may collect information through cookies and similar technologies:

  • Google Analytics: Used to analyze site traffic and user behavior.
  • Vercel Analytics: Used for website performance monitoring.
  • Speed Insights: Used to measure and improve website loading speeds.
  • Microsoft Clarity: Used to analyze user behavior through session recordings, heatmaps, and analytics. This service may record mouse movements, clicks, scrolls, and keyboard inputs (excluding sensitive fields).

In the future, we may integrate Google AdSense for displaying advertisements. When this occurs, this policy will be updated to reflect the change.

User Rights and Choices

You can opt-out of Google Analytics by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can opt-out of Microsoft Clarity tracking by visiting Microsoft's privacy dashboard. For other third-party services, please refer to their respective privacy policies for opt-out information.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please review this policy regularly for any updates.

Contact Us

For questions about this Privacy and Cookie Policy, please contact us at contact@gameologist.app.