The short version#
GamGem sets no cookies of its own, and analytics cookies stay off until you turn them on.
- There is no advertising, and I do not sell anyone’s data.
- What you save, such as favourites, checklists and preferences, stays in your browser and I never receive it. The list of everything GamGem can save is checked against the site’s code, so it cannot quietly fall behind.
- Google Analytics counts page views without cookies, and adds cookies only if you allow them.
- Twitch and YouTube load only when you open a live stream or press play on a trailer, and they set their own cookies.
Who is responsible#
One person runs GamGem, and you can write to them directly.
GamGem is published by me, Nugzari Kochiashvili, and I live in England. Under UK data protection law I am the “controller” of the personal data described on this page, which means I decide why and how it is used.
Write to nugokochiashvili@gmail.com or nugikochiashvili@gmail.com. Either address reaches me.
What stays in your browser#
Your saved items live on your device, and I never receive them.
GamGem remembers things by writing to your browser’s local storage, not to cookies and not to a server. It is used for what you asked the site to remember, and for nothing else.
The panel at the top of this page shows what is stored right now and lets you remove any of it. Your browser’s own settings can clear it too.
All 40 things GamGem can save
| What it remembers | Kind | Stored as |
|---|---|---|
| Light or dark appearance | How you like the site | gamgem:theme |
| How compact the layout is | How you like the site | gamgem:density |
| Whether “Explain simply” is switched on | How you like the site | gamgem:explain |
| Which layout of the home page you chose | How you like the site | gamgem:landing-view |
| How far you lean to comfort picks over the meta | How you like the site | gamgem:aram:comfort |
| Which class you last picked on a game’s front door | How you like the site | gamgem:door-class:… |
| Whether you opened the old side rail — no longer written | How you like the site | gg:sidebar:expanded |
| Whether you want the chat on live pages | How you like the site | gg:live:chat |
| The pages you starred | Things you saved | gamgem:favorites:v1 |
| The games you starred on the home page, up to three | Things you saved | gamgem:my-games |
| The cars you saved | Things you saved | gamgem:garage:v1 |
| The records in your comparison tray, up to four | Things you saved | gamgem:tray:v1 |
| Your field notebook: region, hour, weather, tries | Things you saved | gamgem:worksheet:v1 |
| Your replay worksheet: five answers about a lost game | Things you saved | gamgem:tft:worksheet:v1 |
| Your own notes on a rune matchup | Things you saved | gamgem:runes:… |
| The draft on your Dota draft board | Things you saved | gamgem:dota-draft |
| The six item slots you set for a Dota hero | Things you saved | gamgem:dota-slots |
| The filter views you saved on Dota pages | Things you saved | gamgem:dota-views |
| Spots you marked “I died here” and the words your team chose for disputed callouts | Things you saved | gamgem:map-briefing |
| The Counter-Strike 2 guns you added to your practice queue, in your order | Things you saved | gamgem:weapon-queue |
| The Counter-Strike 2 economy values you changed from Valve’s — loss bonus, win awards, money cap | Things you saved | gamgem:economy-rules |
| The Counter-Strike 2 grenade lineups you marked learned, needing practice or broken | Things you saved | gamgem:lineups |
| The day you last opened the lineup board, to show what changed since | Things you saved | gamgem:lineups-visit |
| The crosshair you are building, your last 30 changes to it, your DPI and sensitivity, and your viewmodel | Things you saved | gamgem:crosshair |
| Your Counter-Strike 2 practice log — reps, transfer checks, saved plans, notes and the lineups you remember | Things you saved | gamgem:cs2-practice |
| The spray screenshots you add to your Counter-Strike 2 practice, kept apart so a new rep never rewrites them | Things you saved | gamgem:cs2-practice-shots |
| What you typed, ticked or saved on a Clash of Clans page — your Town Hall, builders, timers, checklists, saved bases and armies, and notes — one entry per page | Things you saved | gamgem:coc:… |
| Your Max Levels table — the Town Hall you chose and the levels you typed for each building, troop, spell and hero; plus the date you last looked (`gamgem:coc:max-levels-visit`) | Things you saved | gamgem:coc:max-levels |
| A clan leader’s war plan draft — who attacks whom and how, notes per member, the weights you set, locked state, league and place, builder-base slots, attacks typed in by hand, clan name, mode, and when you saved or published the plan | Things you saved | gamgem:coc:war |
| Your Ranked week — tier, time zone, last day of the week, attacks used, checklist ticks, locked state, your rank and group, promotion and demotion lines, stars per attack, your play blocks, and the date you started | Things you saved | gamgem:coc:ranked |
| Your Mythic+ plan per game — goal, key level, region, runs this week, pinned dungeons, notes, best keys, teleports, and each dungeon’s run card (role, stop, who does what, deaths you counted, your clock), your raid plan (difficulty, bosses you ticked, pulls and best %, the slot you want, the checklist and your wipe notes), each boss page’s role, step and assignments, your Delves plan (minutes, goal, tier, Valeera’s kit and the runs you logged), your Great Vault notebook (label, region, the bosses, runs and activities you logged, lockout states, budget, objectives and scarce resources), each spec guide’s activity, hero tree, boss or dungeon, cooldown timeline, checklist and pasted import string, your talent planner (situation, boss or dungeon, class and spec, hero tree, the loadout string you pasted, its name and note, the level you are looking at, the ranks you pick on each tree, your saved loadouts with the talents you picked on each tree, the two you compare, and whether the top-key % shows on each node), your gear notebook (your class, your slots — item level, track, rank, name, stats, where from, set piece, special effect, known, unknown or locked — the class, spec and role you typed, content preference, Optimal or Learnable, your limits for raid, key, Delve tier, Prey, Lair and crafting, what you hold — Mistcrests, Sparks, Voidcores, Catalyst charges — content chips, your last 20 upgrades, region and this week’s counters, the last-seen date and whether the example is showing), your professions worksheet (profession, skill, tree, tools, Concentration, region and realm, quality, the recipe and reagent prices you typed, stock, known recipes, shopping-list ticks, your own rows and your crafting queue), your gold-making notebook (your filters — minutes, setup, starting cost, region, freshness, mode — the numbers you typed per activity — minutes per run, items, price, materials, overhead, hours to sell, unsold %, gold to start, which material a gathering row sells — your two Auction House readings per material, your last 40 recorded play runs, your run-sheet draft, readiness and checklist ticks, a run timer, your goal, and what your last visit saw), your Renown notebook (each faction’s level and the reputation inside it, your goal, date and time preset, the rewards you want, this week’s picks and ticks, your own counts, amounts, minutes and travel, bonuses you switched on, filters, minor-track standings, notes and the evidence marks you set), your collections tracker (last visit, quiet reading, faction, tonight’s time window, category, solo, lockouts first, ranking, region, start-from situation, the selected row, what you own, your goals, ticked prerequisite steps, set pieces and class set, your minutes per source, your attempt journal — tries, last try, currency spent, collected — and this week’s ticked route), your housing planner (house level and total House XP, budget used — interior, exterior, rooms — copies owned and wanted per decor piece, shopping-list ticks, reset region and this week’s ticks, route mode, other-goal chip, your neighborhood’s Endeavor and milestone, renown, crew rank and Prey Journey level, the piece open in the drawer, planner layout, tab and pasted list, and look words), your campaign guide notes (who you are, the steps you marked, whether one of your characters finished the main campaign, your gap-finder goal and gate, the open stretch, the time you have, and Next-three mode), your patch page setup (spec, content, talent string — kept, only its header read — tier pieces, item level, dungeon, today’s goal, four gear slots with name, track and fully upgraded, and the route-rehearsal rows ticked as read), your weekly hub (goal, time budget, level, item level, hours and play style, Prey mode, how sure you are per activity, this week’s skipped, flagged and done marks, a skipped week, reminder hours, your note for next time, your own tasks, rows you hid, your professions, your alts with three counters each, and the date you last looked — its runs, region, nickname and route are your Great Vault notebook’s), your classes page (what you are looking for, top or everyday keys, role, damage, armor and sort filters, chips, up to four pinned specs, your activity weights, rows per page and last visit), and your item pages (your spec, Optimal or Safe, content tab, drop-decision mode, and per item the item level you typed, the difficulty and the item you compare with; and the item directory’s filters — “Top keys” and the order among them — and the armour and primary stat a spec guide’s link sets when you arrive) | Things you saved | gamgem:keystone:… |
| The channels you follow on live pages | Things you saved | gg:live:following |
| The marks you set on a live page | Things you saved | gg:live:reactions:… |
| When you last opened a page, so it can show what changed | What you read or ticked | gamgem:seen:… |
| The duo page’s synergy on your last visit, so it can show what moved | What you read or ticked | gamgem:duo-memory |
| Which page notices you closed, so they stay closed | What you read or ticked | gamgem:notices |
| The last patch summary you saw | What you read or ticked | gamgem:patch-digest |
| How many checklist items you ticked each day | What you read or ticked | gamgem:activity:v1 |
| The checklist items you ticked, one entry per game | What you read or ticked | gamgem:progress:… |
| Whether you allowed analytics cookies | Your consent choice | gg:consent:analytics |
Cookies. GamGem sets none of its own while you read. There are two exceptions, both under your control: Google Analytics cookies, only if you allow them, and nothing else. Twitch and YouTube set their own cookies when you open their players, and Cloudflare, which hosts the site, sets a security cookie only on a browser it has asked to pass a check.
Analytics#
Google Analytics sets cookies only if you allow them; without them it receives a cookieless ping.
Google Analytics is off until you say yes. On your first visit a banner asks, and “yes” and “no” carry the same weight. You can change your answer at any time with the switch at the top of this page. If you say yes, Google Analytics sets two cookies and reports how the site is used.
If you say no, or have not answered, Google Analytics still receives a cookieless ping when a page loads. It carries the page address and the technical details every web request carries, including your IP address, and nothing is stored on your device. Google states that Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses.
On live-stream pages a small event is sent about once a minute while the tab is visible, so the site can show how many people are watching. It names the game and the channel, and nothing about you.
I use analytics to see which pages work and which are slow. I do not use it to build advertising profiles.
Other companies involved#
Each of these companies sees something, and here is what and when.
| Company | What it receives | When | Its own notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Hosts the site and protects it. Like any web host it receives each request: your IP address, your browser, the page you asked for and the time. If a browser sends an unusual burst of requests, Cloudflare may ask it to pass a quick check, which leaves a security cookie (cf_clearance) on that browser only. | Every visit | Read it |
| Google Analytics | A cookieless ping with each page load. Cookies only if you allow them. | Every visit | Read it |
| Twitch | Its player loads and sets its own cookies. | Only on a live-stream page | Read it |
| YouTube | A thumbnail loads from its image server, which sees your IP address. The player itself loads from youtube-nocookie.com only after you press play. | Pages with a trailer | Read it |
| RAWG | Game covers and screenshots load from its image server, which sees your IP address and browser details. No cookies are set. | Pages with game art | Read it |
| Riot Games | League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics art loads from its image server, which sees your IP address and browser details. No cookies are set. | Pages with that art | Read it |
None of them receives what is saved in your browser. Each company’s own notice is the authoritative account of what it does.
Why I may use your data#
UK law requires a reason for each use of personal data, and these are mine.
| What I do | Data involved | Lawful basis |
|---|---|---|
| Serve pages and keep the site secure | Your IP address and browser details, as any web request carries them | Legitimate interests: running a secure website |
| Google Analytics cookies | Cookie identifiers and how you use the site | Your consent, which you can withdraw at any time |
| Answer your email | What you write to me | Legitimate interests: replying to you |
How long I keep it#
Only as long as each thing is needed.
- Saved in your browser: until you remove it. I cannot see it, so I cannot delete it for you.
- Cloudflare’s request logs: for the periods in Cloudflare’s own notice. I do not copy or keep them myself.
- Google Analytics reports: for the retention period set in the Google Analytics property.
- Emails you send me: as long as it takes to deal with your message and anything that follows from it, then I delete them.
Your rights#
You can see, correct, delete or take your data, and object to how it is used.
Under UK data protection law you can ask me to:
- tell you what personal data I hold about you, and give you a copy;
- correct data that is wrong, or delete it;
- restrict how I use it, or stop using it where I rely on legitimate interests;
- give you what you provided in a form you can take elsewhere.
You can also withdraw your consent to analytics cookies at any time, with the switch at the top of this page. That does not affect anything done before you withdrew.
Most of this you can do yourself: the panel at the top of this page covers your browser. For anything else, write to me and I will answer within one month.
I make no decisions about you by automated means. You do not have to give me any personal data to read GamGem.
If you think I have handled your data badly, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office or, if you live in the EU, to your local data protection authority. I would rather hear from you first.
Children#
GamGem covers games many young people play, so it is built to ask them for as little as possible.
Analytics cookies are off until someone turns them on, and I do not build advertising profiles. Nobody has to give me personal data to read GamGem.
If you are under 18 and unsure about anything here, ask a parent or carer, or write to me.
Data outside the UK#
Some of the companies above are based in the United States.
Cloudflare and Google are US companies, and other providers listed above may process data there too. Where personal data leaves the UK, it does so under the safeguards those companies document; Cloudflare, for example, relies on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and its UK Extension. Each company’s notice, linked in the table above, is the place to read the detail.
Advertising#
GamGem shows no advertising today.
There are no ad networks and no advertising cookies on GamGem. If that changes, I will update this policy first, add an entry to the version history, and ask for your consent before any advertising cookie is set.
Keeping it safe#
Data is kept to a minimum and sent over HTTPS.
GamGem is served over HTTPS. If a breach put your rights at risk, I would tell you and the Information Commissioner’s Office, as the law requires.
Changes and version history#
Material changes are announced here, dated, with what changed.
When this policy changes in a way that matters to you, such as a new company involved or a new use of data, I will say so on this page and add an entry below. The date at the top always matches the newest entry.
Version 1.1
The site moved from Vercel to Cloudflare. Cloudflare now hosts and protects it and appears in the list of companies involved; Vercel and its cookieless page-view and page-speed counters are gone.
Version 1.0
First full policy. It replaces a short placeholder that described what the site did without saying why, for how long or who else was involved.