Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 22, 2026
This page explains what personal data GamePatchLine (“we”, “the site”) collects, how it's used, and your rights. We only list data types we actually process.
Data We Collect
- Newsletter subscription: your email address, subscription date and consent status — stored solely to send the newsletter.
- Contact form: name, email, subject and message content — stored solely to respond to your request.
- Admin accounts: email, name and password for editorial team members (passwords are stored irreversibly hashed with bcrypt).
- Theme preference: your light/dark theme choice is stored locally in your browser (localStorage), never sent to our server.
- Language preference: a small cookie (
site_locale) remembers whether you chose the Turkish or English edition of the site, so we don't redirect you based on browser language every visit. - Server logs: for security purposes (brute-force prevention, rate limiting) your IP address is temporarily kept in a Redis cache.
Sharing With Third Parties
We do not share your data with third parties for advertising purposes. Newsletter emails may be delivered via an email service provider once configured; in that case the provider only accesses your email address for delivery purposes.
Your Rights
You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via the link in our emails, or request deletion of your data via the contact form.
Cookies
Aside from session management (admin panel login) and the language preference cookie described above, the site uses Google Analytics 4 to measure aggregate traffic (pages viewed, referrers, approximate location, device type), which sets analytics cookies. The admin panel is not measured. Google also serves ads on the site (AdSense). You can block or delete these cookies in your browser settings or opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.