Privacy for the PlayerDelta beta

Information used by the beta

PlayerDelta uses your account email, profile details, saved game choices and playstyle preferences to provide your account and recommendations. Uploaded profile photos are stored for the profile-photo process. If you connect Steam, PlayerDelta uses your connected account identifier, Steam display name, available game library, playtime and achievement records. What Steam makes available depends on your Steam settings and platform availability.

Services involved

Vercel hosts the application and background worker requests. Supabase manages sign-in, database records and profile-photo storage. Resend sends signup and account-recovery emails. Steam verifies the account connection and supplies available gaming records. These services receive the information needed for those tasks. Support messages are forwarded by ImprovMX into the operator’s Gmail inbox.

Payments and paid access

Stripe processes Supporter Pass payments through its hosted checkout. Stripe receives the payment and contact details you provide there. PlayerDelta stores the Stripe customer, purchase, payment and refund references needed to verify paid access and handle billing support. PlayerDelta does not store your card number or card security code. Removing a PlayerDelta account does not automatically remove payment records retained by Stripe or support correspondence about a purchase. Contact PlayerDelta about a billing or refund request.

Optional website analytics

Google Analytics helps PlayerDelta understand visits, signup requests, email-confirmed signups, successful sign-ins, Steam connection attempts, completed syncs observed in the browser, report views, checkout attempts and verified Supporter Pass purchases. Analytics loads only after you choose Allow analytics. Google Analytics cookies have a maximum lifetime of 60 days. Your choices are saved in your browser until you change them or clear browser storage. After consent, a signed confirmation receipt lasting up to 10 minutes can record a newly confirmed signup. Opaque conversion references help prevent repeated measurement. We send fixed page names and feature events, with recognised referral domains where available. Purchase events include the paid amount, AUD currency, fixed report name and an opaque transaction reference. We do not send your email address, PlayerDelta or Steam identity, game library, private page identifiers, card details or form contents.

Ad measurement is a separate, optional choice and is off by default, including for visitors who previously allowed analytics. If you allow both, Google can use advertising cookies and approved Google click identifiers and fixed campaign labels from public landing pages to measure which ads lead to signups or purchases. Other URL query strings are not sent to Analytics. We do not enable personalised advertising, remarketing or email matching. Google receives network, browser and device information and may process it outside Australia. Figures cover consenting browsers and may miss cross-device confirmations, closed browsers or blocked tracking. Purchase figures measure recorded gross sales; Stripe remains authoritative for total payments, refunds and net receipts.

With a new explicit ad-measurement choice, PlayerDelta can save the original approved Google click identifier and Analytics browser identifier against your account. This connects a confirmed signup, your first verified Steam connection and a later verified payment to the same original visit, even when the later action is on another device. These identifiers are kept for up to 90 days, with expired context removed by scheduled cleanup. A server sends the event and the original Analytics identifier to Google; it does not send your account identity or the stored raw click identifier as an event field. Small opaque event receipts remain until account removal to prevent duplicate milestones or purchases. Google applies its own consent, attribution model and conversion windows. Server events are sent within 72 hours of the actual action and, for ad attribution, within 63 days of the original recorded online activity; a saved 90-day visit does not guarantee Google credit for that entire period. Google dispatch acceptance does not prove an attributed conversion. Withdraw ad measurement through Analytics choices while signed in, or from the original browser with its signed attribution cookie: this erases the stored visit context and cancels unsent events. A withdrawal cannot remove events already received by Google. Deleting the account also removes this account-linked measurement data. Existing analytics permission alone does not enable this new account linkage.

Use Analytics choices to change either choice. Turning off ad measurement stops that collection and clears the site's advertising measurement cookies; turning off analytics also removes Analytics cookies and browser conversion references. A pending signup confirmation receipt expires within 10 minutes. Excluding a browser or a recognised Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track request keeps both off. Sign-in and Steam connection cookies remain necessary for the features you use. Learn more about Google's privacy practices.

Sign-in and connection cookies

PlayerDelta uses cookies to maintain sign-in and complete Steam linking. Technical requests and delivery records also support account and email features.

Rankings and visibility

Leaderboard participation is optional. If you join, eligible signed-in PlayerDelta members can see the related player record, Steam display name and ranking information. You can leave rankings in Profile Settings. Leaving rankings changes visibility; it does not delete your account or stored history. Country ranks require separately verified country information under PlayerDelta’s ranking rules.

Disconnecting Steam

Use the Steam controls in Gaming history to disconnect. Disconnecting removes your imported Steam records and Steam-derived profile data from the active account, then queues a profile update using your remaining saved choices. Your manually saved Likes and preferences remain. Shared game and achievement definitions may remain in the catalogue. This does not delete your Steam account or records held by Steam.

Removing your PlayerDelta account

Use Account removal while signed in. The form requires your current password and the confirmation DELETE. An accepted request closes your profile and queues background cleanup of your PlayerDelta login, owned gaming records, preferences, recommendations and uploaded profile photos. Cleanup is not instant; temporary failures may be retried. Account removal does not delete your Steam account or shared catalogue definitions. Contact PlayerDelta if you need help with a pending request.

Backups and other retained copies

Existing backups are separate copies and are not rewritten by account removal. Older copies may still contain information removed from the active application. Provider operational records, email delivery records and support correspondence are separate from the active profile. A fixed retention period for every category has not yet been established for this beta. Contact PlayerDelta with questions about a particular record or removal request.

Contact

Email support@playerdelta.app about account access, privacy or removal. Use your PlayerDelta account email where possible. Do not send your password, recovery code, Steam credentials or payment-card details.