Effective Date: May 6, 2025
1. Introduction
At The Vintage Gamers, accessible at https://thevintagegamers.com, we value your privacy and are committed to transparency in how your data is collected and used. This Privacy Policy explains what information we gather, how we use it, and what rights you have as a visitor to our site.
2. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://thevintagegamers.com. The Vintage Gamers is a digital platform dedicated to exploring video game history through editorials, retrospective reviews, podcasts, and multimedia content.
3. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection.
An anonymized hash generated from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to determine if you are using it. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After comment approval, your profile image becomes publicly visible alongside your comment.
4. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies to enhance your experience on The Vintage Gamers. These may include:
- Comment Cookies: Save your name, email, and website in cookies when leaving a comment. These last for one year.
- Session Cookies: Temporary cookies set for administrative purposes. Not applicable to public visitors.
- Display Preferences: Store your screen display settings for accessibility.
You may disable cookies in your browser settings, but doing so could impact site functionality.
5. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Pages and posts on The Vintage Gamers may include embedded content such as YouTube videos, Spotify podcast episodes, images, or articles. Embedded content behaves exactly as if you had visited the external site.
These third-party services may collect data, use cookies, track interactions, and gather analytics—especially if you are logged in to those platforms. Their privacy policies can be found at:
6. Advertising (Google AdSense)
The Vintage Gamers displays advertising provided through Google AdSense. Google may use cookies and web beacons to serve ads based on a visitor’s prior interactions with this and other websites. These technologies may collect data such as IP address, browser type, location, and browsing behavior to deliver personalized ads.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ad Settings. You can also review how Google uses data from sites that use its services at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
The Vintage Gamers does not directly access or store this advertising data and does not share any visitor information with Google beyond what is automatically collected through standard ad services.
7. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, both the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them for moderation.
8. What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have submitted comments to our site, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You may also request that we erase any such data, with the exception of data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security reasons.
To initiate a request, please contact us at our contact form.
9. Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments are checked through Akismet, an automated spam detection service provided by Automattic. Akismet may collect your IP address, browser details, referrer, and the comment content to determine whether it is spam.
Learn more here: https://automattic.com/privacy/
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Significant changes will be posted on this page, and if appropriate, visitors will be notified through clearly visible announcements.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to make a request related to your personal data, please contact us at:
- Contact Page: Contact Us