← back to Underplayed Gems

Privacy

Short version: this is a small independent community site. There are no ads, no analytics, no trackers, and your data is never sold or shared beyond the technical services listed below. Contact: fuwahanakishidev@gmail.com.

What is stored

• Account (only if you create one): email address, username, and your password as a strong one-way hash. The actual password is never stored and cannot be recovered by anyone, including us.
• Your library (only if logged in): played/favorite/wishlist marks, notes, and saved searches.
• Technical logs: IP addresses appear briefly in server logs and in-memory rate-limit counters, used only to keep the service working and abuse-free.

Cookies

Only strictly necessary ones: a login session cookie (expires after 30 days of inactivity) and, on invite-protected deployments, an access cookie. No tracking or advertising cookies, which is why there is no cookie banner.

Third parties involved

• AI chat: messages you type into the chat are sent to our AI provider (DeepSeek or Google Gemini) to generate the reply. Conversations are not saved: they live only in your open tab and a short-lived server memory (about an hour), then they're gone. Still, please don't put personal information into chat messages.
• Cover images load directly from the game databases' image servers (IGDB, RAWG, Steam), so your browser contacts them like it would for any image on the web (they see your IP address; we send them no page information).
• Steam import (optional): if you paste a Steam profile URL, our server fetches that public game list once; the URL itself is not kept.
• Email: verification and password-reset codes are delivered via our email provider; no other emails are sent.

Your rights & deleting your data

You can see everything the site knows about you in your library. You can delete your account yourself at any time (account menu → "Delete account"). This immediately and permanently erases your account, library, notes, saved searches, chat history, and friend links. For anything else (access, correction, complaints), email fuwahanakishidev@gmail.com.

This page describes the community deployment of Underplayed Gems and is kept deliberately plain-language. See also: about & credits.