Privacy Policy

This website is run by GamePowerUps ("we", "us"). Privacy questions: support@gamepowerups.com.

The short version

• There are no public accounts, no sign-up and no payments. You never give us your name, email address, age or any other details to use the site.
• If you mark a code as working or not working, we store your vote with a scrambled value made from your IP address. We never store the IP address itself.
• Your redeemed-codes checklist and your tier lists stay in your browser. They are never sent to us.
• We use Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to see how the site is used. We show no ads.

What we collect

Code reports

On a codes page you can tap Works or Doesn’t work. For each vote we store:

• which code it was and your vote;
• the date and time;
• a hash: a scrambled value made from your IP address and a secret key that changes every day.

We never store your IP address. We use the hash only to limit reports: one vote per code per day from the same network, and a cap per hour. Because the key changes every day, hashes from different days cannot be matched to each other. We do not use the hash to work out who you are.

We show how many players reported each code in the last 24 hours. Many "Doesn’t work" reports can mark a code as likely expired.

How long we keep them: 30 days. Once a day we automatically delete every report that is more than 30 days old.

Emails you send us

If you email us, we receive your email address and what you write. We use it only to answer you and to fix what you reported. Email sent to our address is forwarded to our mailbox by Cloudflare. Ask us and we will delete your emails.

Basic request data

Like every website, our host Cloudflare receives your IP address, browser type and the page you asked for, so it can deliver the page and block attacks. Cloudflare keeps short-lived technical logs under its own privacy policy. We do not use them to identify visitors.

What stays in your browser

The site uses your browser’s local storage for:

• your redeemed-codes checklist, per game;
• the codes you already voted on, so the buttons show your vote;
• tier lists you make, including any names you type in.

None of this is sent to us. When you save a tier list as a PNG, the picture is drawn on your device; nothing is uploaded. To remove all of it, clear this site’s data in your browser settings.

Calendar files

Add to calendar downloads a calendar (.ics) file that we make when you ask for it. We store nothing about the download. The Google Calendar link opens Google with the release date filled in; from there, Google’s privacy policy applies.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4, a service from Google, to count visits and see which pages and tools are used. It sets cookies and collects things like the pages you view, how you reached the site, your device and browser type, and your rough location (country or city). Google does not store your full IP address in Google Analytics.

We also send three events: a code was copied, a calendar file was downloaded, and a tool was first used. They carry only the game and tool name, nothing about you.

We also use Microsoft Clarity, a service from Microsoft, to see how pages are used. Clarity records clicks, taps, scrolling and mouse movement, and can replay a visit as a recording, so we can find confusing or broken parts of a page. It sets cookies and collects device and browser type and rough location. We use Clarity’s recordings only for site analytics, and we set Clarity to strict masking: recordings hide all text on the page, including anything you type, but still show clicks, taps, scrolling and mouse movement. Microsoft keeps recordings for about 30 days and other Clarity data for up to 13 months. See Microsoft’s privacy statement for how Microsoft handles this data.

We use this data only to improve the site, never for advertising. Our Google Analytics settings:

• Google signals is turned off.
• Event and user data are kept for 2 months, then deleted by Google.
• Google Analytics is not linked to any Google Ads account.

Analytics only, no ads, no profiles. The site uses cookies and device identifiers only for site analytics: to count visits and see which pages and tools work. We do not use them for advertising, and we do not use them to build a profile of anyone. We do not set a user ID. Google Analytics keeps this data for 2 months; Microsoft Clarity keeps recordings for about 30 days and other data for up to 13 months; code reports are deleted after 30 days.

If a cookie banner is shown, Google Analytics sets no cookies until you accept, and you can change your choice any time with Cookie Settings at the bottom of every page. You can also block cookies in your browser.

Ads

We show no ads today, and no ad code runs on this site. We have applied to Google AdSense. Before any ads start, we will update this policy to say what Google and its partners collect and how to opt out of personalized ads.

Cookies

• Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity cookies, as described above.
• Your cookie choice: if you accept or reject in the cookie banner, a cookie remembers your answer.
• Staff sign-in: the people who manage the site sign in to an admin area and get a sign-in cookie. Visitors never need one.

Who helps us run the site

• Cloudflare: hosting, database and email forwarding.
• Google: Google Analytics.
• Microsoft: Microsoft Clarity.

These companies may process data in the United States and other countries. We do not sell personal data, and we share it with no one else unless the law requires it.

Children

This site is for general gamers. It is not directed at children under 13. Nobody needs to give us personal information to use it:

• no accounts, sign-up, profiles, chat or comments;
• we never ask for a name, email address, age, phone number or photo;
• code reports store only a hash that changes every day, never an IP address, and are deleted after 30 days;
• checklists and tier lists stay on the device.

The one way anyone could send us personal information is by email. If we learn that a child under 13 has sent us personal information, we delete it. Parents can write to support@gamepowerups.com and we will delete anything their child sent us.

Your choices and rights

• Clear this site’s data in your browser to remove your checklist, tier lists and votes.
• Reject analytics cookies in the cookie banner, if shown, or block cookies in your browser.
• Ask us what we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete it: support@gamepowerups.com. We never store names or IP addresses with code reports, so we usually cannot tell which reports came from you.

Depending on where you live, you may have more rights, such as the right to object or to complain to a data protection authority. If you are in the EU or UK: we handle code reports and request data because we have a legitimate interest in running a reliable site and stopping abuse, and analytics cookies with your consent where the law requires it.

Changes

We will update this page when what we collect changes, for example before ads start. The date at the top shows the latest version.