What we keep. What we don't.

The short version

GG Play Now is a game-discovery service. Browsing the catalogue, taking the Gamer Class quiz, and finding game matches do not require an account. We use Google Analytics 4 to understand website traffic and product usefulness, not to build advertising audiences. We do not sell personal information or connect Google Analytics records to your Discord account.

What we collect when you opt in

Discord connection

Discord provides the identity information needed to recognise your connected account: your Discord user ID, display name, and an avatar URL when Discord provides one. We ask Discord only for identity. We do not ask for your email address, password, friend list, messages, or server list, and we do not keep Discord access tokens after identity has been checked.

Your profile features

When you use them, we keep the games you watch, the alert and delivery state needed to update you, and your current Gamer Class pairing. These records are tied to your Discord identity so they can appear in your profile after you return.

Secure sign-in

We use a secure, opaque session cookie to keep you signed in. Sessions expire after inactivity and have a fixed maximum lifetime. We may keep a short-lived yes-or-no record of whether the GG Play Now bot can see you in our community server, only to avoid showing an invitation you do not need.

Temporary browser state

Your browser may temporarily hold the minimum state needed to return from Discord sign-in or begin a Gamer Class comparison. It is not sent as quiz-answer history and is cleared when that hand-off is finished or you start a fresh quiz.

Website analytics and your choices

Google Analytics 4 measures visits to public discovery pages and fixed actions such as starting a finder, viewing results, opening an official game link, completing a Gamer Class quiz, choosing a fixed quiz answer, and rating a recommendation. It uses pseudonymous browser identifiers and analytics cookies to distinguish visits and sessions. Google also receives technical information needed to process requests, including your IP address and browser/device information; these measurements are not described as completely anonymous.

We provide clean public page addresses without query strings or fragments, a broad page category instead of a personalised page title, the referring website's origin rather than its full URL, and approved campaign labels from promotion links. Fixed quiz choices are recorded by question/answer codes, not free text, and are never joined to a Discord account. Campaign labels must not contain personal information. Discord bot campaign links are reduced to a generic Discord source before reaching Google; server and channel IDs are not forwarded.

When analytics is enabled, we also measure fixed categories of browser errors and unavailable game searches to help find broken pages. Error reports do not include exception messages, stack traces, failed resource addresses or form contents.

We do not run Google Analytics on your profile, shared-profile pages, sign-in routes, game-submission form or operator console. We do not send Discord user IDs, usernames, avatars, server/channel IDs, emails, messages, session cookies, saved watches, creator-channel details, authentication codes, recommendation tickets or free-text form contents to Google. Google Signals and advertising personalisation are disabled in our tag configuration. Analytics is not required to browse, sign in, take a quiz or receive game alerts.

For visitors detected by our hosting network as being in the EU, EEA or UK, Google Analytics stays off until you accept it. Outside those regions, and when location cannot be determined or the region check fails, analytics is enabled unless you have rejected it. Location is inferred from the connection, so a VPN may change the detected region. We do not ask your device for precise location or store the detected country in analytics. A Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal also keeps analytics off.

You can reject or enable analytics using Analytics choices here or in the footer. We remember that choice in your browser for up to 180 days. Rejecting stops future collection from this browser and removes our Google Analytics cookies; it does not erase information already processed by Google. Our analytics cookies are configured to expire after 180 days without extending their lifetime on each visit. Campaign attribution may be held in the current tab for 30 minutes while analytics is enabled.

Google processes analytics information under its Privacy Policy and explains its use of partner-site information here. Processing may take place outside your country, including in the United States. GA4 retention and reporting settings also apply to data held by Google.

Separate first-party operational records

For security and troubleshooting, our hosting service keeps request times, requested paths, response statuses, browser information, IP addresses and sanitized referring-site origins in restricted operational logs for 14 days. Referrer paths, queries, fragments and credential-bearing values are discarded before logging. These logs exclude cookies and request query strings, are not used for advertising or visitor analytics, and are not joined to account or Google Analytics records.

We retain aggregate GGPN Bot command and announcement-delivery/click counts for up to 400 days. Private operational counters can distinguish Discord servers and channels, but do not store an individual command user's identity. With website analytics enabled, a validated official-link click can also increment a daily game-and-launcher count used to order the catalogue; this is not a second website visit or campaign tracker and contains no visitor identifier. When you submit recommendation feedback, a separate anonymous calibration record retains the route, fixed choices, recommended game and response for up to 30 days. It is not tied to an account, browser, cookie or device and remains separate from GA4.

Sharing a Gamer Class

A Gamer Class stays private unless you choose the share action. Sharing creates a public GG Play Now page containing your current main class and subclass, plus the display name and public profile address generated for that page. Anyone with the link can view and compare against it. We never put your Discord user ID, avatar URL, watched games, alerts, or quiz answers on that public page.

How information is used and where it goes

We use connected-account data only to operate the profile, watched-game and alert features you choose, create a Gamer Class share page when you request one, protect the service, and support the product. Discord receives the information needed for its sign-in and message-delivery functions. Our cloud hosting providers process data only to host and operate GG Play Now. When you follow an official game or store link, that destination handles information under its own policy.

Your controls and retention

You can browse and take the quiz without connecting Discord. In your profile, you can stop watching a game or disconnect to end the current session. You can request removal of a saved Gamer Class share page or help with the data attached to your connected profile through the official GG Play Now Discord server. We keep connected-profile records only while they are needed to provide the selected feature, maintain security, or meet a legal obligation; aggregate first-party analytics follow the 400-day limit above.

Changes to this policy

If how GG Play Now handles personal information materially changes, we will update this page before using the new arrangement. The date above is the current version date.