Privacy

Hype Climb tracks upcoming games and updates about them. It is a public, read-only site with nothing to register for: this page states exactly what we store about a visit, and how long we keep it.

What we store

Hype Climb stores:

• Page views -- a daily count of visits per page, keyed to two pseudonymous digests: one for your device (your IP address and the identification your browser sends) and one for your address alone. Both are computed with a random key that exists for a single day and is then destroyed, so they cannot be linked across days or back to you. The address and the identification are inputs only -- to those digests and to the rough categories below; neither is ever stored.
• Referring site -- when you arrive from a link on another site, we store the domain name only (e.g. google.com), never the full address, path, or anything after it. It is erased with the page-view row it belongs to.
• Device and browser -- a rough category worked out from the identification your browser sends: whether it is a phone, tablet or desktop, plus a browser and operating-system name from a short fixed list (anything unrecognised is recorded as other). No version numbers, no raw identification string, nothing that singles out your device. It is erased with the page-view row it belongs to.
• Preference cookies -- your interface language (locale), your colour theme (theme), and the calendar month you last viewed (calendar_month). Each holds nothing but your choice and lasts up to a year.
• A session cookie -- _isobar_session, a technical cookie holding only a form-security token. It carries no identity, is never used for tracking, and expires when you close your browser.

Nothing else is stored about you.

How long we keep it

• Raw page views are erased automatically after 30 days; the daily totals they roll up into are kept as an aggregate trend.
• Hype-score history (used to show a game's trend over time) is kept in full detail for 365 days, then as one reading every 7 days for as long as we hold the game.
• Other internal history (hype signals, job-run audit rows) is kept for 90 days.

Questions about this policy: email privacy@hypeclimb.net.

Attribution

Game data is provided by IGDB. Review scores are provided by Steam, GOG and IGDB.